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Timeline of the 20th Century
How well do you remember historical events from 1901 until 2000?
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1. How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901?
Six
Seven
Four
Five
2. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?
12
18
2
5
3. Which explorer is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909?
Sir James Clark Ross
Jules Dumont
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Robert Peary
4. What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?
Titanic
Queen Mary
Empress of Britain
Lusitania
5. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Abel Tasman
Roald Amundsen
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Robert Scott
6. Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Erwin Schrödinger
Ernest Rutherford
7. How many conflicts were there during Balkan wars that started in 1912?
Three
Four
Two
Five
8. In which city was archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?
Vienna
Budapest
Belgrade
Sarajevo
9. Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Leonid Brezhnev
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?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Enver Pasha
Habib Bourguiba
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?
1930
1938
1942
1934
14. Which artist painted "Guernica", the painting that helped bringing worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War?
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Frida Kahlo
15. What was the first feature-length animated movie that was released in 1937?
Bambi
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio
Jungle Book
16. The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?
France
Denmark
England
Poland
17. Which event in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II?
The sinking of Lusitania
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The German invasion of Poland
The bombing of London
18. What was the first city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in World War II?
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Yokohama
Tokyo
19. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
Chinese
French
Persian
British
20. What group did Mother Teresa form in 1950 to help the poor and needy?
Red Cross
Salvation Army
UNICEF
Missionaries of Charity
21. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Mount Blanc
Mount Everest
Aconcagua
Kilimanjaro
22. What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?
Apollo 1
Explorer 1
Soyuz 1
Sputnik 1
23. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Washington
Baltimore
24. What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?
The Troubles
The Difficult Years
The Scuffles
The Feud
25. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?
Leo XIII
Benedict XVI
John Paul II
Pius XII
26. Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?
Great Britain and Brazil
Argentina and Great Britain
France and Argentina
Brazil and France
27. The Schengen Agreement from 1985 is a treaty that built a Europe without borders. Where is the city of Schengen located?
Luxembourg
Switzerland
Austria
Belgium
28. Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?
Munich 1972
Barcelona 1992
Los Angles 1984
Moscow 1980
29. In what present county Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986?
Romania
Armenia
Belarus
Ukraine
30. What was the name of Nicolae Ceausescu's wife who was executed along with him during the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
Maria
Mihaela
Elena
Diana
31. What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?
World War II
Vietnam War
Cold War
World War I
32. When did East and West Germany reunite?
1989
1995
1991
1990
33. Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?
Cali
Juarez
Sinaloa
Medellin
34. In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?
Amsterdam
Paris
Manchester
London
35. What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?
Princess of England
Princess of Wales
Princess of York
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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Feb 27, 2021
Thanks for comment. I saw that sentence somewhere but you are right, it does not sound good.
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