History Trivia Questions XX

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A Canadian, Arthur Brown, is often credited with what aviation feat?

       a. Being the first to fly across the Pacific
       b. Shooting down the Red Baron
       c. Inventing jet aviation
       d. Creating the bush-pilot system


What form of writing, developed by the Sumerians, was named for "wedge-shaped" impressions that the styluses made in clay?

       a. Hieroglyphics
       b. Roman letters
       c. Cuneiform
       d. Braille


What king had a summer palace at Potsdam called Sans Souci?

       a. William the Conqueror
       b. Peter the Great
       c. Frederick the Great
       d. Charles the Merely Adequate


Like Cher, Madonna and Elvis, Sukarno and Suharto went by just one name. What country did they rule? (This being Sukarno and Suharto, not Cher or Elvis.)

       a. Nepal
       b. Burma
       c. Indonesia
       d. Japan


Founded by Vikings, what Ukrainian city on the Dnieper River was once the Russian capital?

       a. Minsk
       b. Kiev
       c. Moscow
       d. St Petersburg


This country became the heart of Livonia, and sometimes these people are still called Letts. Which one?

       a. Latvia
       b. Lithuania
       c. Poland
       d. Hungary


Who put his older brother Joseph on the throne of Naples (then Spain), his younger brother Louis on the throne of Holland, and a third brother Jerome on the throne of Westphalia?

       a. Charlemagne
       b. Adolf Hitler
       c. Napoleon
       d. Frederic Barbarossa


Nearly a quarter of the prisoners of war in Andersonville died. Where is Andersonville?

       a. Ohio
       b. Georgia
       c. Illinois
       d. Florida


Born in 1757, what famous Frenchman's name was Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier?

       a. Marquis de Lafayette
       b. Robespierre
       c. Marquis de Sade
       d. Napoleon


When the 1824 election was thrown to the House, the Speaker, Henry Clay agreed to a "corrupt bargain" that put who in the White House?

       a. Grover Cleveland
       b. Andrew Jackson
       c. John Quincy Adams
       d. William Henry Harrison


Who was the last Catholic king of Britain?

       a. Richard III
       b. William I
       c. James II
       d. George III


Inspired by the French Revolution, what country was transformed into the Batavian Republic from 1795 to 1806?

       a. Sweden
       b. Poland
       c. Netherlands
       d. Ireland


In the late 1600s, what ruler tried touring Europe incognito, despite being a rather conspicuous six-foot-six?

       a. Charlemagne
       b. Peter the Great
       c. Richard the Lionhearted
       d. Erik the Red


The Flavian Amphitheatre was nicknamed the Coliseum for whose colossus, which once stood next door?

       a. Nero
       b. Augustus
       c. Zeus
       d. Jupiter




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