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Top 50 History General Knowledge Quiz Questions

History General Knowledge Quiz Questions

 

History General Knowledge Quiz Questions - Learn more History and Improve Your GK

 

History General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 1 (Questions 1-15)

 

1) Which peasant girl led the French army at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War?

Joan of Arc.

 

2) Who restored democratic rule to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos?

Corazon Aquino.

 

3) Which British political party is also known as the Tory Party?

Conservative Party.

 

4) Which U.S. first lady was the first to win elective office in her own right?

Hillary Rodham Clinton.

 

5) Who declared that the great issues of the day would be decided by “blood and iron” and later was the founder and first chancellor of the German Empire?

Otto von Bismarck.

 

6) Which religious leader, according to tradition, initiated the Protestant Reformation by posting his Ninety-five Theses on a church door?

Martin Luther.

 

7) In U.S. history, when did the Second Continental Congress adopt the Declaration of Independence?

July 4, 1776.

 

8) In which country did the Industrial Revolution first take place?

Britain.

 

9) Which modern religious movement was responsible for a nerve gas attack on a Tokyo subway?

AUM Shinrikyo.

 

10) Which explorer led the first circumnavigation of the world?

Ferdinand Magellan.

 

11) Which U.S. president resigned from office because of his role in the Watergate scandal?

Richard Nixon.

 

12) Which war was also known as the Great War?

World War I.

 

13) Which soldier and statesman led revolutions against Spanish rule in much of South America?

Simon Bolivar.

 

14) Which of the following U.S. presidents was not a lawyer by profession?

Ronald Reagan.

 

15) What was the second international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership?

United Nations.

 

History General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 2 (Questions 16-30)

 

16) Which great conqueror immortalized the words “Veni, vidi, vici”?

Julius Caesar.

 

17) Which Egyptian monarch’s tomb was discovered intact by Howard Carter in 1922?

Tutankhamen’s.

 

18) Which queen was known as “the Virgin Queen”?

Elizabeth I.

 

19) Which leader endured a long prison term and later became his country’s president and a Nobel Prize winner?

Nelson Mandela.

 

20) Which was Nazi Germany’s largest and deadliest concentration camp?

Auschwitz.

 

21) Which two Asian countries are divided by the 38th parallel?

North and South Korea.

 

22) Which U.S. president’s administration was marred by the Iran-Contra Affair?

Ronald Reagan.

 

23) Which was the worst famine to hit Europe in the 19th century?

Irish Potato Famine.

 

24) Which U.S. president did not reside at the White House?

George Washington.

 

25) Who was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain?

George I.

 

26) Which of the following is the most important cause of the Holocaust?

Nazi anti-Semitism.

 

27) Which U.S. president observed that the best way to conduct foreign policy was to “speak softly and carry a big stick”?

Theodore Roosevelt.

 

28) Which religious group contributed a distinctive style of architecture, furniture, and handicraft to American culture?

Shakers.

 

29) Which U.S. president was the first chief executive to die in office?

William Henry Harrison.

 

30) Which failed revolt against British rule led to major changes in colonial administration and society?

Indian Mutiny.

 

History General Knowledge Quiz Questions Part 2 (Questions 31-50)

 

31) Who was the famous wartime nurse the “Lady with the Lamp”?

Florence Nightingale.

 

32) The parliament of which Middle Eastern country is called the Knesset?

Israel.

 

33) Who is considered the father of the U.S. Constitution?

James Madison.

 

34) Which treaty concluded the Seven Years’ War?

Treaty of Paris.

 

35) Who among the following was the promoter of the first complete translation of the Bible into English?

John Wycliffe.

 

36) Which prime minister is credited with rallying the British people during World War II?

Winston Churchill.

 

37) What famous religious leader had to hide from the Nazis and pursue his education in clandestine classes?

John Paul II.

 

38) Which leader of the Russian Revolution traveled across Germany in a special security train before reaching Russia?

Vladimir Lenin.

 

39) Which Greek military victory, according to legend, was reported to the Athenians by a messenger who then died from exhaustion?

Battle of Marathon.

 

40) Who founded the Church of Scientology?

Ron Hubbard.

 

41) Which famous monument was built by Shah Jahan to immortalize his wife?

Taj Mahal.

 

42) Which radical leader of the French Revolution was assassinated in his bath?

Jean-Paul Marat.

 

43) Which Crusade leader’s death while attempting to swim a stream was regarded by Muslims in the Holy Land as an act of God?

Frederick I.

 

44) Which American leader was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”

George Washington.

 

45) During which year did Elizabeth II become queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland?

1952.

 

46) Who assassinated American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.?

James Earl Ray.

 

47) Which British act contributed much to the spirit and organization of unity that was a necessary prelude to the American struggle for independence – a decade later?

Stamp Act.

 

48) Which ruler issued what was long considered the oldest set of laws in human history?

Hammurabi.

 

49) Which famous military leader was also known as the “Little Corporal”?

Napoleon Bonaparte.

 

50) Whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?

Francis Ferdinand.

 

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