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1. Which composer performed his "Moonlight Sonata" for the first time in 1801?
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Frederic Chopin
2. In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory by the United States from which country?
United Kingdom
Mexico
France
Spain
3. In 1804, in the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon defeated Russian and what other army?
Spanish
Ottoman
Swedish
Austrian
4. What was the name of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the USA from 1804 to 1806?
Livingstone & Stanley Expedition
Smith & Frazier Expedition
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Ham & McKenzie Expedition
5. Napoleon's invasion of what country turned out to be his downfall?
Russia
Germany
Austria
Great Britain
6. In 1813, which author published "Pride and Prejudice"?
George Elliot
Edgar Allan Poe
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
7. When Mount Tambora erupted in 1815 it became the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 71,000 people. In which country that happened?
Philippines
Mexico
Chile
Indonesia
8. Which author published "Frankenstein" in 1815?
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Emily Bronte
Oscar Wilde
9. What African country was founded by freed American slaves in 1821?
Benin
Angola
Liberia
South Africa
10. What 19th century leader, nicknamed "The Liberator", campaigned for Catholic rights and Irish independence?
Daniel O'Connell
John Collins
Oliver Cromwell
William Wallace
11. In what state did the Battle of Alamo take place in 1836?
Texas
Arizona
Georgia
New Mexico
12. Which writer highlighted the horrors of 19th century Child labor in his novel "Oliver Twist"?
Ernest Hemingway
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
13. What crop failed in the 1840s, causing the Great Irish Famine?
rice
corn
wheat
potatoes
14. Who is considered the Father of Communism?
Karl Marx
Mao Zedong
Friedrich Engels
Vladimir Lenin
15. The Springtime of the Peoples were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in what year?
1868
1848
1898
1828
16. Gettysburg is the most notorious and bloody battles in what war?
American Civil War
Mexican-American War
War of 1812
Revolutionary War
17. Who was the first president of the United States who was assassinated?
James A. Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
Andrew Johnson
18. Who published "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in 1865?
Lewis Carroll
Walt Disney
Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Andersen
19. Cro-Magnons were the first early modern humans to settle in Europe. Where were their remains found in 1868?
France
Croatia
Italy
Spain
20. Which famous canal was opened up in 1869?
Rhine-Main-Danube canal
Panama canal
Suez canal
Volga-Don canal
21. In 1869, who published "War and Peace"?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mikhail Sholokhov
Alexander Pushkin
Leo Tolstoy
22. Widely held to be the first in the world, which national park was established in the United States in 1872?
Yosemite
Rocky Monutain
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
23. Which teams played the first recognised international soccer match in 1872?
England vs Scotland
England vs France
France vs Wales
Scotland vs Wales
24. The opera "Carmen" was premiered in Paris in 1875. Who is its composer?
Richard Wagner
George Bizet
Gioachino Rossini
Giuseppe Verdi
25. Who was the U.S. commander that lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876?
Ulysses S. Grant
Jesse James
George Armstrong Custer
George S. Patton
26. The first modern Olympic Games were held in which decade?
1890s
1850s
1870s
1880s
27. In what town did the gunfight at the O.K. corral take place in 1881?
El Paso
Lincoln
Tombstone
Dodge City
28. Who invented the light bulb in 1883?
Karl Benz
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Walter Hunt
29. Which King of Bavaria built the famous Neuschwanstein Castle in 1886?
King Leopold
King Maximilian
King Otto
King Ludwig II
30. Who published his first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet" in 1887?
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe
31. "Starry Night" is probably the most famous painting of which artist?