Looking for a fun challenge with you and your kids? Letโs see how well you know your history. Challenge your brain with scientific, military, and social history, and letโs see how well you actually know your stuff! Donโt 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: Tenochtitlรกn
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 Khanโs 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 Nightโs 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 โ100-Year Warโ 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 โFather of Medicineโ?
Answer: Hippocrates
42. Which civilization invented the wheel?
Answer: The Sumerians
43. What country is famous for itโs 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 Greatโs 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 ministerโs residence?
Answer: Number 10 Downing Street
50. What is the name of the cat that guards 10 Downing Street?
Answer: Larry
51. What civilization built Machu Picchu?
Answer: The Inca Empire
52. Who was the U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
53. Which ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
Answer: Pompeii
54. Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
Answer: Shirley Chisholm
55. What famous document begins with the words โWhen in the course of human eventsโ?
Answer: The Declaration of Independence
56. Who was the British prime minister during most of World War II?
Answer: Winston Churchill
57. What structure was completed in 1889 and became a symbol of France?
Answer: The Eiffel Tower
58. What empire was ruled by Suleiman the Magnificent?
Answer: The Ottoman Empire
59. What was the name of the ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in 1620?
Answer: The Mayflower
60. What global conflict followed the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
Answer: World War I
61. Which U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
62. What was the first country to grant women the right to vote?
Answer: New Zealand
63. Who was the ruler of Egypt when the pyramids of Giza were built?
Answer: Pharaoh Khufu
64. In which war was trench warfare most commonly used?
Answer: World War I
65. What landmark Supreme Court case ended racial segregation in U.S. public schools?
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
66. Who discovered the Americas in 1492 while sailing under the Spanish flag?
Answer: Christopher Columbus
67. What was the name of the Cold War space race competition between the U.S. and USSRโs satellite launches?
Answer: The Space Race
68. What early civilization developed cuneiform writing?
Answer: The Sumerians
69. Who led the Salt March in India as an act of civil disobedience against British rule?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
70. What country was formerly known as Persia?
Answer: Iran
71. What war was fought between the North and South regions of the United States?
Answer: The Civil War
72. Who built the first printing press?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg
73. What battle marked Napoleon’s final defeat?
Answer: The Battle of Waterloo
74. What famous protest took place in 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his โI Have a Dreamโ speech?
Answer: The March on Washington
75. What dynasty ruled China during the construction of the majority of the Great Wall?
Answer: The Ming Dynasty
So, how well did you do? The fun doesnโt have to stop here. Create your own questions to challenge your kids and expand their knowledge about world history. Donโt forget to have fun!