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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 Amelia Earhart Bessie Coleman Valentina Tereshkova

Question 2 of 30

In which year did the French Revolution begin?

1776 1789 1799 1804

Question 3 of 30

Who was the first emperor of China?

Wu Zetian Confucius Sun Tzu Qin Shi Huang

Question 4 of 30

What year did the American Civil War begin?

1870 1861 1855 1865

Question 5 of 30

Which empire built the pyramids of Giza?

Egyptian Empire Persian Empire Roman Empire Babylonian Empire

Question 6 of 30

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the UK?

Indira Gandhi Angela Merkel Margaret Thatcher Theresa May

Question 7 of 30

Which country was divided into East and West after WWII?

Poland Czechoslovakia Germany Korea

Question 8 of 30

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Caravaggio Michelangelo

Question 9 of 30

Which US President issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Andrew Jackson Theodore Roosevelt Abraham Lincoln George Washington

Question 10 of 30

What year did World War II start?

1938 1941 1939 1940

Question 11 of 30

Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire?

Suleiman the Magnificent Selim I Osman I Mehmed II

Question 12 of 30

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

Apollo 7 Gemini 4 Apollo 13 Apollo 11

Question 13 of 30

Who was the longest-reigning monarch in French history?

Louis XIV Napoleon I Charles X Louis XVI

Question 14 of 30

Which battle ended Napoleon’s rule in 1815?

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

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?

1990 1991 1989 1993

Question 17 of 30

Who wrote "The Prince" in 1513?

Thomas Hobbes John Locke Voltaire Niccolò Machiavelli

Question 18 of 30

Which US President resigned after the Watergate scandal?

Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Richard Nixon Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 19 of 30

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

Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky Joseph Stalin Nikita Khrushchev

Question 20 of 30

What year did the United Nations form?

1939 1945 1940 1950

Question 21 of 30

Who discovered the Americas before Columbus?

Cortes Leif Erikson Marco Polo Magellan

Question 22 of 30

Which civilization built the city of Tenochtitlán?

Olmecs Mayans Incas Aztecs

Question 23 of 30

Who was the British Queen during the Victorian Era?

Anne Queen Victoria Elizabeth I Elizabeth II

Question 24 of 30

Which year did the Korean War begin?

1953 1945 1955 1950

Question 25 of 30

Who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968?

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

Question 26 of 30

Which empire was defeated in the Punic Wars?

Greek Empire Carthaginian Empire Persian Empire Byzantine Empire

Question 27 of 30

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

Trinity Project Apollo Program Manhattan Project Eagle Project

Question 28 of 30

Who was the first Tsar of Russia?

Catherine the Great Peter the Great Ivan the Terrible Nicholas II

Question 29 of 30

Which country did the Vikings come from?

Scandinavia Scotland Germany Iceland

Question 30 of 30

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

Vasco da Gama James Cook Ferdinand Magellan Bartolomeu Dias

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