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History General Knowledge #16

Can you answer these random history questions?
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Who was known as "The Virgin Queen"?
Queen Elizabeth I
Who helped to unite Germany in 1871 and also served as its first chancellor?
Otto von Bismarck
Who was baptized on his deathbed in 337 AD?
Constantine
What crop failed in Ireland in 1845, sparking the Great Famine?
Potato
What was the last imperial dynasty of China, reigning from 1644–1912?
Qing
What country was ruled by Ptolemy and his descendants from 305 BC–30 BC?
Egypt
What disease caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria killed an estimated 40% of the population of Constantinople during the reign of Justinian?
Plague
What did people try to "break" at Bletchley Park during WWII?
Secret codes
What military alliance was signed by the Soviet Union and seven of its allies in 1955?
Warsaw Pact
Who is the author of the 1859 text "On the Origin of Species"?
Charles Darwin
Who were the first people to settle New Zealand, arriving around 1320 AD?
Māori
What event was held for the first time in 1930 and hosted by Uruguay?
FIFA World Cup
What did the U.S. buy from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867?
Alaska
What was the title of the ruler of Iran prior to 1979?
Shah
What structure was built to house the remains of Khufu?
Great Pyramid of Giza
In Roman times, what was a "gladius"?
A sword
What language would have been spoken in Naples in 500 BC?
Greek
What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?
Afghanistan
Who was born for the first time in 1391 in central Tibet?
The Dalai Lama
What city lays claim to the world's oldest stock exchange, founded in 1602?
Amsterdam
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11 Comments
bachslunch
+2
Level 93
Jan 17, 2025
Could you please accept variants for “secret codes” such as “code” or “Axis code” or “Nazi code?”
FreeStater
+8
Level 81
Jan 17, 2025
Yeah, just 'code' should probably work.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Jan 18, 2025
It feels weird to allow it.

What did they break? They broke codes. They didn't break code.

And then everyone it types the correct answer just has a dangling S they have to erase.

Constantinos
+5
Level 75
Jan 18, 2025
I can understand this but in essence the answer is code.
tizzlizz
+2
Level 66
Feb 11, 2025
My answer was Enigma which happily was accepted. I they weren't breaking, they were deciphering
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jan 28, 2025
+1 for code, they were code breaking. Deciphering text written in code. Not in codes..

(And someone in the programming bussiness writes code, also not codes. Different subject I know but it is one of those words where the singular is used, Im sure there is a nice term for it but I can think of it now.)

Alexquiz17
+1
Level 95
Jan 18, 2025
You could ask “Which code did they successfully crack at Bletchley Park?” I think it’s fairly well known, especially after the release of that terrible movie with Matthew McConaughey. You know, the true story that shows Americans saving the day. Again.

Thanks again Quizmaster for more brilliant history quizzes

HemmoAU
+2
Level 57
Feb 3, 2026
There's also the much more popular 2014 movie Imitation Game
timshorts
+1
Level 61
Feb 24, 2026
I asked somebody that had worked at Bletchley what she thought of the American film. She obviously said that it was a load of rubbish.

However, she also told me that the enigma machine that they had started using was initially "found" by some Polish fishermen, who had gone on to a scuppered vessel to see if there was anything useful take (food etc), but they saw the machine, thought that it looked "interesting/important" and pilfered it before the vessel sunk, passing it on to the British.

RobsPubQuiz
+1
Level 58
Sep 6, 2025
Great quiz! Could you allow Lorenz alongside Enigma?
Other1
+1
Level 76
Feb 24, 2026
Wow accepts the dumbest answers to questions on so many of these quizzes but “code” is still too crazy I guess. Ridiculous. They were called the CODEbreakers! Not the CODESbreakers. I can’t even finish typing the “Caucasus” mountains before it’s accepted on every quiz but better put an ‘s’ at the end of code
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