History Trivia Questions XIX

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After helping the US win its independence, Tadeusz Kosciuszko went back home to help what country fight Russia and Prussia?

       a. Finland
       b. Hungary
       c. Poland
       d. Romania


Polish heroes Tadeusz Kosciuszko and King Jan III Sobieski are both buried in a cathedral in what city, which was once Poland's capital?

       a. Bratislava
       b. Krakow
       c. Dresden
       d. Leipzig


An improvised shack called Checkpoint Charlie once symbolized the divisiveness of what city?

       a. Belfast
       b. Detroit
       c. Berlin
       d. Rome


At one time, they were severely persecuted. The Marsh Arabs live in the marshes of what country?

       a. Syria
       b. Iraq
       c. Lebanon
       d. Turkey


What Indian confederacy in New York State included the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida and Seneca?

       a. Iroquois
       b. Apache
       c. Sioux
       d. Seminole


The Paris peace talks that led to the Treaty of Versailles brought world attention to obscure bits of Europe, most of which Germany or Austria-Hungary had to give up. Which country took Upper Silesia from Germany?

       a. Poland
       b. Denmark
       c. Belgium
       d. France


Indra Roy was which country's sole WWI flying ace?

       a. India
       b. Australia
       c. Japan
       d. Canada


In 1936, who declared himself Emperor of Ethiopia and later declared himself King of Albania?

       a. Haile Selassie
       b. George VI
       c. Victor Emmanuel III
       d. Juan Carlos I


In 1596, King Sigismund III moved the capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to the more central Warsaw, and away from what city on the Vistula River?

       a. Lodz
       b. Vilnius
       c. Krakow
       d. Gdansk


Did WWI's leading ace survive the war?

       a. No, he died on influenza
       b. Yes, he is France's Rene Fonck
       c. No, he was shot down in France
       d. Yes, he is Eddie Rickenbacker


The European Coal and Steel Community, which became what is today called the European Union, was made up of the Benelux countries and all but which of these nations?

       a. West Germany
       b. Great Britain
       c. France
       d. Italy


From its founding in 1955 to its disbanding in 1975, Jean Monnet headed an "action committee" calling for something. What?

       a. The United States of Europe
       b. Global nuclear disarmament
       c. Protection of endangered species
       d. Space exploration




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