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Sudden Death history Quiz

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Question 1 of 30

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Harriet Quimby Valentina Tereshkova Bessie Coleman Amelia Earhart

Question 2 of 30

In which year did the French Revolution begin?

1799 1804 1776 1789

Question 3 of 30

Who was the first emperor of China?

Confucius Qin Shi Huang Sun Tzu Wu Zetian

Question 4 of 30

What year did the American Civil War begin?

1870 1855 1865 1861

Question 5 of 30

Which empire built the pyramids of Giza?

Roman Empire Egyptian Empire Babylonian Empire Persian Empire

Question 6 of 30

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK?

Margaret Thatcher Indira Gandhi Angela Merkel Theresa May

Question 7 of 30

Which country was divided into East and West after WWII?

Czechoslovakia Poland Korea Germany

Question 8 of 30

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Leonardo da Vinci Caravaggio Raphael Michelangelo

Question 9 of 30

Which US President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Andrew Jackson George Washington Theodore Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln

Question 10 of 30

What year did World War II start?

1938 1939 1941 1940

Question 11 of 30

Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire?

Suleiman the Magnificent Selim I Mehmed II Osman I

Question 12 of 30

What was the name of the first manned mission to land on the moon?

Gemini 4 Apollo 13 Apollo 7 Apollo 11

Question 13 of 30

Who was the longest-reigning monarch in French history?

Louis XVI Napoleon I Louis XIV Charles X

Question 14 of 30

Which battle ended Napoleon’s rule in 1815?

Battle of Trafalgar Battle of Leipzig Battle of Waterloo Battle of Austerlitz

Question 15 of 30

Who was the first president of South Africa after apartheid?

Thabo Mbeki Nelson Mandela Jacob Zuma F.W. de Klerk

Question 16 of 30

Which year did the Soviet Union collapse?

1989 1993 1991 1990

Question 17 of 30

Who wrote "The Prince" in 1513?

Voltaire John Locke Thomas Hobbes Niccolò Machiavelli

Question 18 of 30

Which US President resigned after the Watergate scandal?

Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter

Question 19 of 30

Who was the famous leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?

Vladimir Lenin Nikita Khrushchev Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin

Question 20 of 30

What year did the United Nations form?

1939 1950 1945 1940

Question 21 of 30

Who discovered the Americas before Columbus?

Marco Polo Magellan Leif Erikson Cortes

Question 22 of 30

Which civilization built the city of Tenochtitlán?

Mayans Olmecs Aztecs Incas

Question 23 of 30

Who was the British Queen during the Victorian Era?

Elizabeth II Anne Queen Victoria Elizabeth I

Question 24 of 30

Which year did the Korean War begin?

1953 1955 1950 1945

Question 25 of 30

Who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968?

Medgar Evers Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. John F. Kennedy

Question 26 of 30

Which empire was defeated in the Punic Wars?

Persian Empire Byzantine Empire Carthaginian Empire Greek Empire

Question 27 of 30

What was the name of the US project to develop the atomic bomb?

Manhattan Project Apollo Program Trinity Project Eagle Project

Question 28 of 30

Who was the first Tsar of Russia?

Ivan the Terrible Nicholas II Peter the Great Catherine the Great

Question 29 of 30

Which country did the Vikings come from?

Germany Scandinavia Scotland Iceland

Question 30 of 30

Who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?

Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan Bartolomeu Dias James Cook

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