50 History Trivia Questions for Kids With Answers [2024 Edition]

Looking for a fun challenge with you and your kids? Let’s see how well you know your history. Challenge your brain with scientific, military, and social history, and let’s see how well you actually know your stuff! Don’t forget to keep track of your score. 

 

1. Who was the first President of the United States to live in the White House?

Answer:  John Adams

 

2. Who was the last Czar of Russia?

Answer:  Nicholas II

 

3. Which treaty ended the American Revolutionary War?

Answer:  The Treaty of Paris in 1783

 

4. Who was the first emperor of China?

Answer:  Qin Shi Huang

 

5. Which British queen holds the longest reign before Queen Elizabeth II?

Answer:  Queen Victoria

 

6. What was the capital of the Aztec Empire?

Answer:  Tenochtitlán

 

7. Who was the first Prime Minister of India?

Answer:  Jawaharlal Nehru

 

8. What was the name of the first successful English colony in America, founded in 1607?

Answer:  Jamestown

 

9. What city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

Answer:  Constantinople

 

10. What ancient wonder was built by King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon?

Answer: Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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11. What was the code name of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War 2?

Answer:  Operation Overload

 

12. Who was the first emperor of Japan?

Answer:  Emperor Jimmu

 

13. What year did the Berlin Wall go up?

Answer: 1961

 

14. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

Answer:  Michelangelo

 

15. What year did World War II begin?

Answer:  1939

 

16. Who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer:  Amelia Earhart

 

17. What was the name of the famous Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his war elephants?

Answer:  Hannibal

 

18. What year did the Great Fire of London occur?

Answer:  1666

 

19. In what year did the United States land on the moon?

Answer: 1969

 

20. Who discovered penicillin?

Answer:  Alexander Fleming

 

21. This African American Scientist is responsible for 300 applications for peanuts and pioneered crop rotation.

Answer:  George Washington Carver

 

22. Who was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty?

Answer:  Elizabeth I

 

23. What was the name of Genghis Khan’s empire?

Answer:  The Mongol Empire

 

24. What year did the Titanic Sink?

Answer: 1912

 

25. What event started World War I?

Answer:  The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

 

26. Who wrote the plays Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

Answer: William Shakespeare

 

27. What was the name of the famous ancient Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Answer:  Homer

 

28. Name the ship that Charles Darwin would travel on.

Answer:  HMS Beagle

 

29. What is the name of the famous nurse during the Crimean War?

Answer:  Florence Nightingale

 

30. What was the main language spoken in ancient Rome?

Answer:  Latin

 

31. In what year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?

Answer:  1621

 

32. What is the oldest city in the US?

Answer:  St. Augustine, Florida

 

33. How long did the “100-Year War” last?

Answer:  116 years

 

34. Which queen was married to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England?

Answer:  Eleanor of Aquitaine.

 

35. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Answer:  Marie Curie

 

36. Which country was Mozart born?

Answer:  Austria

 

37. What year did the French Revolution start?

Answer:  1789

 

38. The War of the Roses involved which two families?

Answer: The Lancasters and the Yorks

 

39. What was the original name of Constantinople?

Answer: Byzantium

 

40. Who was the first Western explorer to reach China?

Answer:  Marco Polo

 

41. Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?

Answer:  Hippocrates

 

42. Which civilization invented the wheel?

Answer:  The Sumerians

 

43. What country is famous for it’s Terracotta Army and Great Wall?

Answer:  China

 

44. Alexander the Great was a king of which ancient Greek kingdom?

Answer:  Macedon

 

45. Who was Alexander the Great’s father?

Answer: Philip II of Macedon

 

46. Which Victorian author wrote A Christmas Carol?

Answer:  Charles Dickens

 

47. What year was Pluto discovered?

Answer:  1930

 

48. What year was 7-Up invented?

Answer:  1929

 

49. What is the address of the British prime minister’s residence? 

Answer:  Number 10 Downing Street

 

50. What is the name of the cat that guards 10 Downing Street?

Answer: Larry

 

So, how well did you do? The fun doesn’t have to stop here. Create your own questions to challenge your kids and expand their knowledge about world history. Don’t forget to have fun!