Interactive 20 Questions: History Written on December 2nd, 2020 by Joseph Luke Joseph Luke 2 December 2020 How Much Do You Know About History? Exams are hard. Take a break and answer 20 questions about History instead! How many republics made up the Soviet Union? 12 15 20 When was the first Nobel Prize in economics awarded? 1969 1949 1929 Which country was Simón Bolívar president of? Bolivia Chile Peru Who was Karl Marx's associate and fellow theoretician? Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Engels Friedrich Reich Where were the Aegean Bronze Age civilisations located? Greece Italy Egypt Who was the first US President to appear on television? Franklin D Roosevelt Ronald Reagan Richard Nixon Which King signed the Magna Carta? Richard I Henry III John Which Egyptian Pharaoh believed in a single god? Tutankhamun Akhenaton Nefertiti To who did Constantinople fall in 1453? Christian Crusaders Ottoman Turks Mongol Hordes Which US state was added first after the original 13? West Virginia Florida Vermont In what year did Leonard Kristensen of Norway lead the first party to land on the mainland of Antarctica? 1895 1875 1855 Namibia was a colony of which European nation in 1890? Britain Germany Portugal When did the Chernobyl disaster occur? 1986 1981 1991 When did the Korean War end? It didn't 1953 1963 In which European country was there a civil war between 1946 and 1949? Spain Greece Bulgaria What was Nelson Mandela's political party called? African National Congress South African Native Party The Nationalist Party How many million years ago did dinosaurs become extinct? 44 65 78 What street did the Great Fire of London start on? Baker Street Butcher's Avenue Pudding Lane Which society was Tenochtitlan the capital of? Aztec Incan Mayan Which disease was eradicated in 1979? Polio Plague Smallpox Tagged as History quiz
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