World History Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What Ohio city was the
1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?
A: Dayton.
What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of
combat operations "Jedi Knights"?
A: Norman Schwarzkopf.
What horse-loving future
president cheated on an
eye exam to join
the cavalry reserves in the
1930s?
A: Ronald Reagan.
What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of
history you can't get out"?
A: Richard Nixon.
What name has been shared by the most
popes?
A: John.
What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to
central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?
A: Charlemagne.
What did Hirohito refer to as a "tragic interlude," during a
1975
U.S. visit?
A: World War II.
What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by
assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?
A: Serbian.
What 17th century English Lord Protector's severed head was
finally buried after 300 years?
A: Oliver Cromwell's.
What country did the U.S. invade in
1989 in what George Will
dubbed "an act of hemispheric hygiene"?
A: Panama.
What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
threaten to reclaim, in 1995?
A: Alaska.
What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?
A: The Kennedy half-dollar.
What British prime minister shared
breakfast in bed with a parrot
named Toby?
A: Winston Churchill.
What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto "America
first"?
A: World War I.
Who did
Henry VIII have beheaded for
witchcraft and adultery,
along with her wolfhound?
A: Anne Boleyn.
What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to
battle boll weevils?
A: Delta Airlines.
Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the
New York Times and
Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?
A: The Unabomber.
What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in
Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in
1958?
A: Martin Luther King Jr.
What future saint was originally taken to
Ireland as a slave in
405 A.D.?
A: St. Patrick.
What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the
52 people it sank with?
A: The Andrea Doria.
What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a
Goodyear blimp?
A: Shoot at it.
Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and
Arab roots?
Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995
Eastern European presidential
election?
A: Lech Walesa.
Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that
communist cartoonists might be using
Mickey Mouse to spread
propaganda?
A: Walt Disney.
Who wore a suit instead of his usual
military fatigues to
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.?
A: Fidel Castro.
What president's mug graces a $100,000 bill?
A: Woodrow Wilson's.
What nation started giving gas masks to its citizens before the
Persian Gulf War?
A: Israel.
What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem
boasting the Temple of Solomon?
A: Zionism.
