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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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1. How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901?
Four
Six
Five
Seven
2. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?
12
2
18
5
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
Robert Peary
Sir James Clark Ross
Jules Dumont
4. What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?
Empress of Britain
Queen Mary
Lusitania
Titanic
5. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Roald Amundsen
Abel Tasman
Robert Scott
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
6. Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
Erwin Schrödinger
Niels Bohr
7. How many conflicts were there during Balkan wars that started in 1912?
Three
Five
Four
Two
8. In which city was archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?
Sarajevo
Vienna
Budapest
Belgrade
9. Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
Leonid Brezhnev
10. Which pharaoh's tomb was famously discovered by Howard Carter in the early 20th century?
Tutankhamun
Hatshepsut
Ramses II
Thutmose III
11. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Habib Bourguiba
Enver Pasha
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
12. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Monday
Black Sunday
Black Friday
Black Tuesday
13. When was the first FIFA World Cup hosted?
1938
1930
1942
1934
14. Which artist painted "Guernica", the painting that helped bringing worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War?
Salvador Dali
Frida Kahlo
Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
15. What was the first feature-length animated movie that was released in 1937?
Bambi
Pinocchio
Jungle Book
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
16. The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?
Poland
Denmark
France
England
17. Which event in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II?
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The sinking of Lusitania
The bombing of London
The German invasion of Poland
18. What was the first city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in World War II?
Hiroshima
Tokyo
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
UNICEF
Red Cross
Salvation Army
21. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Kilimanjaro
Aconcagua
Mount Everest
Mount Blanc
22. What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?
Sputnik 1
Apollo 1
Soyuz 1
Explorer 1
23. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?
Washington
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
24. What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?
The Feud
The Troubles
The Difficult Years
The Scuffles
25. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?
Leo XIII
John Paul II
Benedict XVI
Pius XII
26. Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?
France and Argentina
Argentina and Great Britain
Brazil and France
Great Britain and Brazil
27. The Schengen Agreement from 1985 is a treaty that built a Europe without borders. Where is the city of Schengen located?
Belgium
Luxembourg
Austria
Switzerland
28. Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?
Moscow 1980
Munich 1972
Los Angles 1984
Barcelona 1992
29. In what present county Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986?
Romania
Belarus
Ukraine
Armenia
30. What was the name of Nicolae Ceausescu's wife who was executed along with him during the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
Elena
Mihaela
Diana
Maria
31. What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?
Cold War
World War II
World War I
Vietnam War
32. When did East and West Germany reunite?
1995
1990
1989
1991
33. Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?
Juarez
Medellin
Cali
Sinaloa
34. In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?
London
Paris
Amsterdam
Manchester
35. What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?
Princess of Wales
Princess of York
Princess of England
Princess of Wessex
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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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