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30 trivia questions on History.

  1. Which were the two sides in the War of the Roses?

  2. Who were the Luddites?

  3. What was the name of the war between Russia and the allied powers of Turkey, England, France, and Sardinia between 1853 and 1856?

  4. What was the Bastille used as?

  5. Which Italian general conquered Naples and Sardinia in 1860 with the aid of 1000 volunteers, which led to the formation of the kingdom of Italy?

  6. Which German statesman was known as 'The Iron Chancellor'?

  7. Who was Queen Victoria's husband?

  8. Henry VIII's divorce from which wife led to his break with the Roman Catholic Church?

  9. Nebuchadnezzar was king of which country?

  10. Which secret American organization was started with the purpose of terrorizing Blacks into not voting?

  11. What was the name of the imaginary line between 'slave' and the 'free' states before the American Civil War?

  12. What was the name of the trials held in 1945 in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes?

  13. Georgi Malenkov became Soviet leader after the death of which statesman?

  14. Which French statesman was known as 'The Little Corporal'?

  15. With which was is Marston Moor associated?

  16. What was the name of the moderate republicans during the French Revolution?

  17. What was the name of the war fought between South Africa and Great Britain from 1899 to 1902?

  18. Who wrote the American Declaration of Independence?

  19. Who were the Mau Mau?

  20. Who were the forty-niners?

  21. What were the American Abolitionists concerned with?

  22. Which general in the American Civil War was commonly known as 'Stonewall'?

  23. Who were the Romanovs?

  24. What was the name of the republic that preceded the Third Reich in Germany?

  25. Which war is associated with Rorke's Drift?

  26. What did the British Empire turn into in 1931?

  27. In Greek mythology, which event caused the Trojan War?

  28. How long did the Hundred Years' War last?

  29. Which Roman gladiator led a slave revolt in 71 BC?

  30. Which king was defeated in the English Civil War?

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