Historical Events and Figures

Question 1

Who unified Germany in 1871?

Accepted Answer

Otto von Bismarck

Question 2

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 3

Which empire led early colonialism?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 4

Who argued for natural rights?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 5

Which battle marked Napoleon's final defeat?

Accepted Answer

Waterloo

Question 6

Which wall fell in 1989?

Accepted Answer

Berlin Wall

Question 7

Who was the first Soviet leader?

Accepted Answer

Lenin

Question 8

Which philosophy originated in China?

Accepted Answer

Confucianism

Question 9

Which thinker promoted separation of powers?

Accepted Answer

Montesquieu

Question 10

Which treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?

Accepted Answer

Peace of Westphalia

Question 11

What is the dominant religion in the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 12

Which event started WWII in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Invasion of Poland

Question 13

Who wrote 'Principia Mathematica'?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 14

Who led Britain during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 15

Which treaty ended World War I?

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 16

Which empire dissolved after WWI?

Accepted Answer

Austro-Hungarian

Question 17

Which law did Kepler formulate?

Accepted Answer

Planetary motion

Question 18

What was the Act of Supremacy?

Accepted Answer

Henry VIII's authority

Question 19

What was the Berlin Airlift's purpose?

Accepted Answer

Supply West Berlin

Question 20

Who started the Protestant Reformation?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther

Question 21

Which invention most accelerated the Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Printing press

Question 22

Which city is the capital of Russia?

Accepted Answer

Moscow

Question 23

Who led the French Revolution's radical phase?

Accepted Answer

Robespierre

Question 24

Who were the main groups involved in the Rwandan Genocide?

Accepted Answer

Hutu and Tutsi

Question 25

Which country colonized Brazil?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 26

Which idea is central to Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

Reason

Question 27

What sparked the 1848 European revolutions?

Accepted Answer

Economic crisis

Question 28

Which crop transformed Caribbean economies?

Accepted Answer

Sugarcane

Question 29

Who improved the telescope for astronomy?

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 30

Which country is the largest in Latin America?

Accepted Answer

Brazil

Question 31

Who discovered blood circulation?

Accepted Answer

William Harvey

Question 32

Who was the first female PM of the UK?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Question 33

Which event ended feudalism in Western Europe?

Accepted Answer

Black Death

Question 34

What is the main export of Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 35

What did the Columbian Exchange introduce to Europe?

Accepted Answer

Potatoes

Question 36

Who challenged geocentrism with heliocentrism?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

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