Fun World History Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
A: Princess Diana.
What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to
appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
A: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to
stop fighting, in 1974?
A: World War II.
What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the
1992 Republican convention?
A: Shannen Doherty.
Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named
the National Civil Rights Museum?
A: Martin Luther King Jr's.
What Arab intoned: " I want a homeland even if the devil is the
one to liberate it for me"?
A: Yasir Arafat.
What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
A: Josephine.
What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
A: Ireland.
History trivia questions and answers.
What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish,
Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
A: Pope John Paul II.
What mobster sighed: "I've been accused of every death except the
casualty list of the World War"?
A: Al Capone.
What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in
annual earnings, in 1995?
A: General Motors.
What Uganda city's airport saw an
Israeli commando raid rescue
103 hostages in 1976?
A: Entebbe's.
What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers "die for a tie"?
A: The Korean War.
What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in
1930?
A: Unemployment.
What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in
the thirteen British colonies?
A: Boston.
What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in
1986?
A: The Iran-Contra affair.
What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
A: Imelda Marcos.
What were the Soviet Union's symbols for work in the factory and
on the land?
A: Hammer and sickle.
Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point
to the British?
A: Benedict Arnold.
What did an official U.S. investigation call " the greatest
military and naval disaster in our nation's history"?
A: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee's
note of surrender?
A: Ulysses S. Grant's.
What did "loose lips" do, according to a popular rhyming World
War II slogan?
A: "Sink Ships".
What city had North America's first medical school, bank and
city-paid police force.
A: Philadelphia.
What Filipino was nicknamed the " iron butterfly".
A: Imelda Marcos.
What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill
Hickok?
A: His Horse.
Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
A: Francois Mitterrand.
What country's rampant political corruption was probed by the
Mani Pulite, or "Clean Hands," of the 1990s?
A: Italy's.
What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September
of 1915, and April of 1918?
A: Manfred von Richthofen, or "The Red Barron".