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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
Five
Six
Seven
2. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?
5
2
12
18
3. Which explorer is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909?
Robert Peary
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Jules Dumont
Sir James Clark Ross
4. What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?
Queen Mary
Lusitania
Titanic
Empress of Britain
5. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Abel Tasman
Robert Scott
Roald Amundsen
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
6. Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
Erwin Schrödinger
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?
Belgrade
Sarajevo
Vienna
Budapest
9. Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?
Joseph Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
Vladimir Lenin
Leon Trotsky
10. Which pharaoh's tomb was famously discovered by Howard Carter in the early 20th century?
Tutankhamun
Hatshepsut
Thutmose III
Ramses II
11. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Habib Bourguiba
Enver Pasha
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Gamal Abdel Nasser
12. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Friday
Black Sunday
Black Tuesday
Black Monday
13. When was the first FIFA World Cup hosted?
1930
1942
1934
1938
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?
Jungle Book
Pinocchio
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Bambi
16. The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?
England
Denmark
Poland
France
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?
Yokohama
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
19. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
British
Persian
French
Chinese
20. What group did Mother Teresa form in 1950 to help the poor and needy?
Red Cross
UNICEF
Missionaries of Charity
Salvation Army
21. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Mount Everest
Kilimanjaro
Aconcagua
Mount Blanc
22. What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?
Apollo 1
Explorer 1
Sputnik 1
Soyuz 1
23. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
24. What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?
The Troubles
The Difficult Years
The Feud
The Scuffles
25. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?
Benedict XVI
John Paul II
Leo XIII
Pius XII
26. Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?
Argentina and Great Britain
Great Britain and Brazil
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?
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Belgium
Austria
28. Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?
Los Angles 1984
Munich 1972
Barcelona 1992
Moscow 1980
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
Elena
Diana
Mihaela
31. What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?
World War I
Vietnam War
Cold War
World War II
32. When did East and West Germany reunite?
1989
1991
1990
1995
33. Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?
Sinaloa
Cali
Juarez
Medellin
34. In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?
Amsterdam
London
Manchester
Paris
35. What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?
Princess of England
Princess of York
Princess of Wessex
Princess of Wales
2 Comments
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Level 87
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.
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Level 53
Feb 27, 2021
Thanks for comment. I saw that sentence somewhere but you are right, it does not sound good.