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Timeline of the 20th Century
How well do you remember historical events from 1901 until 2000?
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Last updated: October 11, 2022
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| First submitted | February 16, 2021 |
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1. How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901?
Seven
Five
Four
Six
2. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?
12
5
2
18
3. Which explorer is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909?
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Jules Dumont
Robert Peary
Sir James Clark Ross
4. What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?
Titanic
Empress of Britain
Lusitania
Queen Mary
5. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Robert Scott
Abel Tasman
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Roald Amundsen
6. Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?
Erwin Schrödinger
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
7. How many conflicts were there during Balkan wars that started in 1912?
Five
Two
Three
Four
8. In which city was archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?
Belgrade
Sarajevo
Vienna
Budapest
9. Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladimir Lenin
10. Which pharaoh's tomb was famously discovered by Howard Carter in the early 20th century?
Thutmose III
Ramses II
Tutankhamun
Hatshepsut
11. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Enver Pasha
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Habib Bourguiba
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
12. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Tuesday
Black Monday
Black Sunday
Black Friday
13. When was the first FIFA World Cup hosted?
1938
1930
1934
1942
14. Which artist painted "Guernica", the painting that helped bringing worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War?
Pablo Picasso
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dali
Henri Matisse
15. What was the first feature-length animated movie that was released in 1937?
Bambi
Jungle Book
Pinocchio
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
16. The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?
Poland
Denmark
England
France
17. Which event in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II?
The bombing of London
The sinking of Lusitania
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The German invasion of Poland
18. What was the first city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in World War II?
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Yokohama
Nagasaki
19. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
Persian
French
British
Chinese
20. What group did Mother Teresa form in 1950 to help the poor and needy?
Missionaries of Charity
Salvation Army
UNICEF
Red Cross
21. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Kilimanjaro
Mount Everest
Aconcagua
Mount Blanc
22. What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?
Soyuz 1
Apollo 1
Sputnik 1
Explorer 1
23. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?
Baltimore
Washington
Philadelphia
New Orleans
24. What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?
The Troubles
The Difficult Years
The Scuffles
The Feud
25. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?
Pius XII
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Leo XIII
26. Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?
Great Britain and Brazil
Argentina and Great Britain
Brazil and France
France and Argentina
27. The Schengen Agreement from 1985 is a treaty that built a Europe without borders. Where is the city of Schengen located?
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
Luxembourg
28. Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?
Barcelona 1992
Munich 1972
Moscow 1980
Los Angles 1984
29. In what present county Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986?
Romania
Belarus
Armenia
Ukraine
30. What was the name of Nicolae Ceausescu's wife who was executed along with him during the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
Maria
Diana
Elena
Mihaela
31. What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?
Vietnam War
Cold War
World War I
World War II
32. When did East and West Germany reunite?
1991
1990
1995
1989
33. Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?
Cali
Juarez
Sinaloa
Medellin
34. In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?
Manchester
Paris
London
Amsterdam
35. What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?
Princess of Wessex
Princess of Wales
Princess of York
Princess of England
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2 Comments
nerdalert
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Level 89
Feb 16, 2021
While I think Margaret Thatcher is subjected to a lot of nasty, unwarranted criticism, to say that she ended the Cold War is a little much.
Nenadbs
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Level 54
Feb 27, 2021
Thanks for comment. I saw that sentence somewhere but you are right, it does not sound good.
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