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Which Historical Event Happened First? - #1
Can you correctly select which event from each set of 4 happened first?
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| First submitted | October 16, 2023 |
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1. Which happened first?
A) 1867 B) 1871 C) 1901 D) 1917
A) Canadian Confederation
B) German Unification
C) Australian Federation
D) Finnish Independence
2. Which happened first?
A) 50 BC B) 30 BC C) 85 BC D) 43 AD
A) Roman conquest of Gaul
B) Roman conquest of Egypt
C) Roman conquest of Cyprus
D) Roman conquest of Britain
3. Which happened first?
A) 1953 B) 1909 C) 1911 D) 1903
A) Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to climb the summit of Mount Everest
B) Robert Peary leads the first voyage to the North Pole (though this claim is disputed).
C) Roald Amundsen leads the first voyage to the South Pole
D) Orville Wright flies the first Airplane
4. Which happened first?
A) Dec 7, 1941 B) June 22, 1941 C) Oct 28, 1940 D) July 27, 1942
A) Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
B) Germany breaks the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and invades the USSR
C) Italy launches an invasion of Greece
D) Allied forces are able to halt Erwin Rommel's advance across Egypt at the First Battle of El Alamein
5. Which happened first?
A) 1821 B) 1837 C) 1888 D) 1848
A) Napoleon Bonaparte dies in Exile
B) Queen Victoria is coronated
C) Wilhelm II becomes German Emperor
D) Franz Joseph I ascends the throne of Austria
6. Which happened first?
A) 1956 B) 1962 C) 1961 D) 1971
A) The UNEF Peacekeepers are created by the United nations
B) The USSR stages nuclear missiles in Cuba
C) Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in outer space
D) The People's Republic of China is officially given a permanent seat on the UN Security Council
7. Which happened first?
A) 1898 B) 1846 C) 1867 D) 1865
A) The United States seizes control of Puerto Rico from Spain
B) The United States signs the Oregon Treaty, establishing much of its border with British Canada to be at the 49th Parallel
C) The United States purchases Alaska from Russia
D) Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
8. Which happened first?
A) 1790 B) 1642 C) 1536 D) 1555
A) The city of Washington, D.C. is founded
B) The city of Montreal, Quebec is founded
C) The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina is founded
D) The city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded
9. Which happened first?
A) 1896 B) 1879 C) 1847 D) 1828
A) Ethiopia, led by Menelik II, is able to resist an attempted invasion by the Kingdom of Italy
B) Zulu forces land a humiliating defeat against the British at the Battle of Isandlwana
C) Liberia declares independence from the American Colonization Society
D) Shaka Zulu is assassinated by his brothers, King Dingane and Prince Mhlangana
10. Which happened first?
A) 753 BC B) 447 BC C) ~600 BC D) ~3700 BC
A) The city of Rome is founded
B) Construction begins on the Parthenon in Athens
C) The Aspero Pyramid is built by the Norte Chico civilization in Peru
D) Teotihuacan is founded in central Mexico
11. Which happened first?
A) 988 B) ~1000 C) 1066 D) 1013
A) Basil II formally organizes the Varangian Guard
B) Norse Vikings found a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in North America
C) Norwegian forces under Harald Hardrada are defeated at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
D) Sweyn Forkbeard forms the North Sea Empire, uniting Denmark, Norway, and England
12. Which happened first?
A) 960 B) 1636 C) 1368 D) 1271
A) The Song dynasty comes into power in China
B) The Qing dynasty comes into power in China
C) The Ming dynasty comes into power in China
D) The Yuan dynasty comes into power in China
13. Which happened first?
A) Nov 9, 1918 B) Oct 29, 1923 C) Dec 1, 1918 D) Oct 28, 1918
A) Czechoslovakia breaks free from Austria-Hungary
B) Yugoslavia is formed
C) The republic of Turkey is proclaimed
D) The Weimar Republic is established in Germany
14. Which happened first?
A) 1870 B) 1869 C) 1891 D) 1863
A) Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge
B) The SS Dido becomes the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal
C) Construction begins on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the longest railway line in the world
D) The first line of the London Underground enters operation
15. Which happened first?
A) 559 BC B) 2334 BC C) 1279 BC D) 685 BC
A) Cyrus the Great founds the Achaemenid Empire in Persia
B) Sargon the Great rules over the Akkadian Empire
C) Ramesses II reigns as Pharoah in Egypt
D) Ashurbanipal becomes King of Assyria
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3 Comments
Jealous1sEnvy
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Level 92
Jan 2, 2024
Wow, this is hard!
DarthSoto
+2
Level 62
Jan 3, 2024
Good quiz but I think it needs a little bit more extra time because of reading each question and having to mentally compare and contrast the timeframes for each answer choice.
DoktorApplejuce
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Level 76
Jan 7, 2024
Fair enough. An extra minute has been added.
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