Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
History by Letter 'K' (Multiple Choice) - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 13 times
- The average score is 7 of 10
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| British field marshal. Had a panic attack just before the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 against the Mahdists. Embarrassed his staff no end. When his officers and troops had sorted out the natives he claimed all the credit. Implemented the concentration camp system in the Second Boer War which resulted in the deaths of 27,927 Boers (mostly women and children) and 14,154 native Africans. He gurgled to death with his main male lover when the cruiser HMS Hampshire hit a German mine off Orkney. Sad. Had an impressive collection of looted ancient relics. | H.H. Kitchener | 100%
|
| Who needed an Equus ferus caballus so desperately (according to William Shakespeare) that he was willing to make the provider of the item very comfortable in terms of real estate ownership? | King Richard III | 100%
|
| Huey Long was a controversial and corrupt governor of Louisiana and later a senator for that state. Another bullet stopper. His bodyguards shot his assassin dead. An autopsy revealed that the assassin had stopped 60 bullets. What was Long's nickname? | The Kingfish | 92%
|
| Won the1973 Nobel Peace Prize for bombing the sheet out of Cambodia during the Vietnam War. | Henry Kissinger | 83%
|
| Birthplace of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt is heavily associated with the city. Once part of Prussia, then East Prussia, now renamed and the capital of Kaliningrad Oblast. | Konigsberg | 75%
|
| An evil-looking item of cutlery used by Gurkhas. Its curved blade makes it an ideal throat-slitter (Was that the designer's intention?). | Kukri | 67%
|
| Australian bushranger (1854-1880). Stringybark Creek. Jerilderie. Glenrowan. Armour. Hanged in Melbourne. | Ned Kelly | 67%
|
| Russian city that was fought over voraciously by the Red Army and Wehrmacht in WWII. Captured, recaptured, captured, recaptured... it is now in the Ukraine. Or is it? | Kharkhov | 50%
|
| This jingoistic, sword-rattling, imperialistic "God is an Englishman" poet suddenly did not have too much to say and stopped whistling "Rule Brittania"... when his son was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915. | Rudyard Kipling | 25%
|
| When the Shintos dropped some ordnance on Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, Australia... in 1942... they also gave this town a bit of a shake up. | Katherine | 17%
|
No matching quizzes found
Score Distribution
Percent of People with Each Score
Percentile by Number Answered
Your Score History
You have not taken this quiz
New and Popular