History Trivia Questions — page 28

The term Summer of Love, associated with the hippie counterculture movement, refers to the summer of what year?

• A1970
• B1965
• C1971
• D1967

The Roman empire was revived when Pope Leo III crowned a king of the Franks as Imperator Augustus on 25 December 800. Under what name is this king known?

• ACharlemagne
• BAlexander the Great
• CWilliam the Conqueror
• DLouis the Pious

By 1900 B.P., the central elements of Mayan culture were in place. These did NOT include:

• Aa sophisticated bronze producing industry.
• Bstratified societies ruled by kings.
• Critual ball games and a reverence for precious jade.
• Da hieroglyphic written language and calendar.

How many Sister Ships were related to the TItanic?

• A3
• B1
• C2
• D4

Which of the following is an example of parietal art?

• Abeadwork
• Bivory statues
• Cinscribed bone
• Dcave paintings

When this significant event took place on January 28, 1986, students worldwide saw it on live television.

• AA nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes
• BPope John Paul II officially visits the Synagogue of Rome
• CSpace Shuttle Challenger explodes
• DThe United States Senate allows its debates to be televised

This is the World Blindness Awareness Month, and Halloween is celebrated on its last day. It is also called Red because of the Russian revolution of 1917.

• AJune
• BFebruary
• COctober
• DNovember

Peace in our time were the famous words by Chamberlain when he returned to the UK from which meeting?

• AConference of Washington
• BConference of Munich
• CConference of Teheran
• DConference of Yalta

In what year was the Dutch Labour Party (S.D.A.P.) founded?

• A1872
• B1850
• C1928
• D1894

One of these events did not take place on a summer day.

• APresident Adams settled in a new capital
• BAdmiral Nelson was buried at St. Pauls Cathedral
• CDonald Duck debuted
• DThe 1936 Summer Olympics

What was the Chinese technique of stamped or pounded earth that was used in construction of house walls and defensive structures?

• ALung-shan
• BHang-t'u
• CQin manufacture
• DScapulimancy

What countrys civilian airliner was shot down by a Russian fighter jet in 1983?

• AJapan
• BChina
• CSouth Korea
• DUSA

Where in Egypt are the Pyramids of Giza situated?

• AOn the outskirts of Cairo
• BNear the Gulf of Aqaba
• CIn Abu Simbel, Southern Egypt
• DIn the very heart of Egypt

What two Japanese carriers attacked the Aleutian islands on June 3rd 1942?

• ASoryu and Shokaku
• BJunyo and Ryujo
• CZuikaku and Shokaku
• DJunyo and Soryu

Who was sworn in as the 13th President on July 10, 1850 following the death of President Zachary Taylor?

• AMillard Fillmore
• BJames Polk
• CJames Buchanan
• DFranklin Pierce

Where and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?

• AUnited States, 1817
• BUnited States, 1917
• CEngland, 1817
• DEngland, 1917

Which Las Vegas casino was originally constructed and operated by mobster Bugsy Siegel?

• AThe Sands
• BThe MGM Grand
• CThe Flamingo
• DThe Sahara

How was Catherine the Great of Russia related to Petar III?

• AShe was his cousin
• BShe was his daughter
• CShe was his sister
• DShe was his wife.

This conflict lead to the start of a period which is referred to as The Catastrophe by the defeated. Which conflict is this?

• AThe Arab-Israel War - 1948
• BThe Armenian uprisal - 1915
• CThe Kashmir Conflict - 1947
• DThe Soviet Annexation of the Baltic States; Estonia, Lithuania Latvia - 1940

Which of these founding fathers of the United States of America later became president?

• ASamuel Adams
• BRoger Sherman
• CAlexander Hamilton
• DJames Monroe

1783 Treaty of Paris was signed on this day.

• ASeptember 3
• BDecember 6
• CNovember 5
• DOctober 4

The allies of WW2 initially consisted of three countries, which were later joined by others. Which of these countries never joined the Allies?

• AJapan
• BFrance
• CChina
• DItaly

What general was killed by shrapnel in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945?

• AGeneral Simon Buckner, Jr.
• BGeneral Douglas MacArthur
• CGeneral Jonathan Wainwright
• DGeneral Walter Krueger

Like the urban centers of the Indus Valley, Teotihuacán appears to have been:

• Aequipped with sophisticated plumbing and cooling systems.
• Bsubject to constant outbreaks of plague and disease.
• Csurrounded by an enormous agricultural hinterland.
• Dplanned and built on a grid pattern.

NASA selected this astronaut to command the first Columbia flight. He was a veteran of two Gemini and two Apollo missions and considered to be NASAs most experienced astronaut at the time.

• AByron Lichtenberg
• BJohn Glenn
• CBob Crippen
• DJohn Young

Which of these countries was not neutral during WWII?

• APortugal
• BSpain
• CGreece
• DSwitzerland

This Union general earned the nickname The Rock of Chickamauga.

• ARosecrans
• BSherman
• CSmith
• DThomas

In 1991 Pfizer came out with the medicine Sildenafil, designed to stop angina pectoris. It was a flop as it had little effect on angina. What was good about this medicine?

• AIt lead to the development of Oxycontin.
• BIt was an inexpensive medicine that could lower HDL cholesterol.
• CIt was an inexpensive medicine that could lower LDL cholesterol.
• DIt lead to the development of Viagra.

A subsistence strategy and settlement pattern based on seasonality and planned acquisition of resources is known as:

• Alogistical collecting.
• Bsymbolic foraging.
• Copportunistic foraging.
• Dmobiliary collecting.

What was the flight number of the hijacked plane that crashed in rural Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001?

• AUnited 175
• BAmerican 11
• CUnited 93
• DAmerican 77

What was the name of the national hero of the Philippines who inspired and lead the Philippine Revolution against colonial Spain?

• AJosé de San Martín
• BSimón Bolívar
• CJosé Rizal
• DBenito Juárez

With what nations military did the US conduct desert exercises in 1981?

• ASaudi Arabia
• BIraq
• CIran
• DEgypt

The first book edition of the detective story, The Valley of Fear, was released in February 1915. This is its author.

• ASir Arthur Conan Doyle
• BAgatha Christie
• CRaymond Chandler
• DDashiell Hammett

Which of the following crops was NOT an important component of Hopewell subsistence?

• Amaize
• Bsunflower
• Csquash
• Dknotweed

Which of the following best describes an archaeologist's perspective of culture?

• Aa common language shared by one group of people for survival
• Bartifacts and artwork that inspire people and improve the average person's quality of life
• Clearned and invented adaptations or strategies for survival which are not genetically determined
• Da genetically-determined adaptation that allows certain kinds of artifacts and technology to be replicated

Which of the following was a large inland sea that covered much of central North America during the Late Cretaceous period?

• AAtlantic Ocean
• BWestern Interior Seaway
• CHudson Seaway
• DIapetus Ocean

Homo erectus is most closely associated with which tool-making tradition?

• AOldowan
• BOccipital
• CStadial
• DAcheulean

Where did the biggest amphibious operation during WW2 take place?

• ANormandy
• BOkinawa
• CAfrica
• DItaly

In the Middle Ages this type of complexion was very fashionable and everybody was trying to achieve it.

• AYellowish skin
• BDead-pale white skin
• CBronze sunkissed tan
• DFlushed pinkish complexion

This singer, who sang the theme song for Rawhide, died on 6th February 2007 at the age of 93.

• AFrankie Avalon
• BFrankie Vallee
• CLorne Greene
• DFrankie Laine

Which of these dictators was the last to die?

• ABenito Mussolini
• BAdolph Hitler
• CFrancisco Franco
• DJoseph Stalin

What decade witnessed the publishing of Charles Darwins The Origin of Species, and the first official game of baseball?

• A1790s
• B1890s
• C1800s
• D1850s

The spinning jenny is a multi-spool spinning wheel invented in 1764 in this country.

• AGermany
• BEngland
• CThe US
• DFrance

The Rosetta stone helped scientists to decipher the alphabet of this ancient civilization.

• AAncient Rome
• BAncient Egypt
• CAncient China
• DAncient Greece

The House of Windsor was founded by King George V in 1917 when he changed the name of his family to Windsor. What was the original name of his family?

• ADutch
• BGerman
• CNorman
• DAncient English

Issued during the Victorian period, it is the name of the worlds first official adhesive postage stamp.

• APenny Black
• BPenny Red
• CPenny Gold
• DPenny Blue

Analysis of the Denisovan, Neanderthals, and modern human genomes suggests that:

• ANeandertals and Denisovans diverged from a common population of premodern humans.
• Bboth a and b.
• CNeandertals and modern humans are more similar to one another than either is to Denisovans.
• DNeandertals and Denisovans are more similar to one another than either is to anatomically modern humans.

The ridge of bone that runs along the top of the skull in Australopithecus robustus is called a:

• Adiastema.
• Bmaxilla.
• Ccranium.
• Dsagittal crest.

When did the French Revolution begin?

• AMay 05 1789
• BApril 05 1789
• CMay 06 1799
• DApril 12 1789

What do anthropologists NOT need to know to determine when people entered the Americas from Siberia?

• AWhen the Bering Strait was exposed and open for travel
• BWhen eastern Siberia was first inhabited
• CThe age of the earliest New World sites
• DWhen sled dogs were first domesticated