Stats: 100 History Questions of Varying Difficulty

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Difficulty	Hint	Answer	% Correct
100	How many World Wars have there been?	Two	99%
99	Who was the first president of the US?	George Washington	97%
94	Which American invented the lightbulb in 1879?	Thomas Edison	90%
90	What year did the United States enter the Second World War?	1941	89%
93	Napoleon was the emperor of which modern-day country?	France	89%
91	1929 is the year what economic crisis began?	The Great Depression	87%
95	What was the biggest modern day country of British Raj?	India	86%
88	Who is Marxism named after?	Karl Marx	86%
96	Who was the longest ruling monarch of England?	Queen Elizabeth II	86%
98	Who was the first emperor of Rome?	Caesar Augustus	80%
71	What is the current name of the city, 'Constantinople'?	Istanbul	77%
97	What were the two main buildings struck on September the 11th?	The World Trade Center	76%
92	Who invented the first airplane?	The Wright Brothers	75%
78	What tragic event in 1850 caused the death of over 1 million Irish?	Potato famine	69%
80	What was the name of the captain who found Australia in 1771?	Captain James Cook	68%
82	Who said, 'We shall fight on the beaches!'	Winston Churchill	68%
73	What is the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei better known as?	Nazi Party	67%
83	What was the nickname of the 1920s?	Roaring 20s	67%
85	What does the U stand for in USSR?	Union	67%
70	What Chinese dynasty lasted from 206 BC-220 CE?	Han Dynasty	65%
87	What was the name of JFK's assassin?	Lee Harvey Oswald	65%
81	What kind of gun did Samuel Colt invent?	Revolver	57%
29	What country is Carthage located nowadays?	Tunisia	55%
79	What was the nickname of British soldiers in the Revolutionary War?	Redcoat	54%
38	Argentinean guerilla executed in Bolivia.	Che Guevara	51%
86	Who killed Alexander Hamilton?	Aaron Burr	49%
48	What style of art did Picasso love to use?	Cubism	49%
75	What was the first place Columbus landed on in the Americas?	The Bahamas	49%
62	Who was Genghis Khan's successor?	Kublai Khan	47%
89	What does V-E stand for?	Victory in Europe	47%
64	Nikola Tesla invented AC, which stands for what?	Alternating current	46%
39	In 1996, this form of execution was banned in the United States.	Hanging	46%
69	The beaches on D-Day were Juno, Gold, Utah, Sword and what?	Omaha	46%
63	Who was the King of Mali that was so rich, he crashed an economy?	Mansa Musa	44%
61	Thomas Edward Lawrence is better known as?	Lawrence of Arabia	43%
49	What musician's love interest was Elise?	Ludwig van Beethoven	43%
72	Who led the 'Rough Riders' in the Spanish-American War?	Theodore Roosevelt	43%
42	Marconi famously invented what?	Radio	41%
37	What country is Zaire nowadays?	The Democratic Republic of the Congo	40%
66	________ _________ spoke his last words in German to a nurse who only spoke English	Albert Einstein	39%
28	Which century did the Western Roman Empire fall?	5th	38%
76	When the ANZACs landed on the Ottoman shore, this campaign was known as...	The Gallipoli Campaign	38%
41	Which famous king was beheaded in 1649?	Charles I	37%
31	Who was the first chancellor of Germany?	Otto von Bismarck	37%
68	Who is Manfred von Richthofen?	The Red Baron	37%
77	When Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 and the Allies brought in supplies, what did the event come to be known as?	The Berlin Airlift	36%
84	What was the name of the place Abraham Lincoln was shot at?	Ford's Theater	31%
47	Eighty-seven years is what in Abraham Lincoln terms?	Four score and seven years	30%
40	Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand?	Gavrilo Princip	30%
12	The event when city counsellors of Prague were thrown out a window.	Defenestration of Prague	29%
50	What cult killed actress Sharon Tate?	Manson Family	28%
67	Who is considered the father of modern medicine?	Hippocrates	27%
30	Who wrote 'Tao Te Ching'?	Laozi	27%
52	Which Zulu king was murdered by his half-brothers?	Shaka	27%
74	What does democracy mean in Greek?	People rule	25%
45	What did Alexander the Great cut in half?	The Gordian Knot	25%
36	Who does Snowball represent in Animal Farm?	Leon Trotsky	24%
26	In 1919, Boston was flooded with what?	Molasses	24%
27	The president that will keep you cool. His most famous words are,"You lose."	Calvin Coolidge	22%
34	Name both figures that replaced Truman and Stalin.	Eisenhower and Khruschev	22%
21	What did Francis Scott Key write?	The Star-Spangled Banner	22%
65	What was the most populous tribe of Israel?	Judah	18%
35	He shot himself in the head with a shotgun in Idaho.	Ernest Hemingway	17%
16	Who was Eric Arthur Blair?	George Orwell	17%
57	Which US Election count was 185-184?	1876	15%
44	Joseph McCarthy was the senator of what US state?	Wisconsin	15%
13	Who was born as William Jefferson Blythe?	Bill Clinton	14%
23	The Cuyahoga River in 1968, caught on fire. What city was it in?	Cleveland	14%
24	Stephen VII put Formosus on trial, they were both...	Popes	14%
54	What fishy politician was assassinated in 1935?	Huey Long	12%
25	What is the deadliest day in American history?	The Battle of Antietam	12%
58	Which battle in the Napoleonic Wars had the most casualties?	Borodino	11%
59	Philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter because he saw a donkey doing what?	Eating figs	11%
53	What serial killer lured people into his 'Murder Castle'?	H.H Holmes	10%
55	Which Australian Prime minister went for a swim and disappeared?	Harold Holt	9%
22	What town did Osama bin-laden die?	Islamabad	8%
14	Who was the ruler from 1964-1982?	Leonid Brezhnev	8%
19	'Major William Martin' was involved in what operation?	Operation Mincemeat	8%
46	What was the biggest empire in the year 400 BCE?	Persian Empire	8%
9	When was Spencer Perceval assassinated?	1812	7%
60	What does EIC stand for?	East India Company	7%
43	What kind of cracker was first composed in 1891?	The Nutcracker	7%
17	He ate cherries and drank some milk and then died.	Zachary Taylor	7%
1	Guess the quote: ____ _____ and ______ ______ ___.Hint:(I mentioned this quote in this quiz.)	Four score and seven years ago	5%
10	What year was the Great Stink of London?	1858	4%
32	Martin Luther King was shot at the _________ Motel.	Lorraine	4%
18	Who found the BBC?	John Reith	3%
56	They originally fried it with nuts but removed it and we know it as...	The Donut	3%
51	What is the name of the Bible that says 'thou shalt commit adultery.'	The Wicked Bible	3%
33	Immanuel Kant once said 'Experience without theory is blind. But theory without experience is mere ____________ ______'	Intellectual play	2%
15	What is the first movie ever?	Roundhay Garden Scene	2%
11	Who was the first prime minister of Malaysia?	Tunku Abdul Rahman	2%
8	Growing up, Adolf Hitler had an issue with this bodily function.	Flatulence	1%
5	What did James Mease allegedly invent?	Ketchup	1%
20	What was the most used gun in the First World War?	Lee Enfield Rifle	1%
3	What alias is George Celino Barnes better known as? (hint:not the rapper)	Machine Gun Kelly	1%
6	Christopher Latham Sholes came up with what kind of board?	QWERTY keyboard	1%
2	Who was Millard Fillmore's Secretary of the Interior?	Thomas M.T McKennan	1%
4	Write the first nine words of Dante's Inferno.	I found that I was in a gloomy wood.	0%
7	On November the 4th, 1986, the US got the?	Northern Mariana Islands	0%

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