True or False Questions about History — page 2
232 true or false questions with answers, all ages. Quick statements to judge true or false — great for fast rounds. Reveal the answers below, pick one at random, or present them full-screen.
- 51.
The Enlightenment was an era of philosophies, advancements, and scientific theories to improve society.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 52.
Every samurai sword had to be tested on the corpse of an animal, before it could be used in battle.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 53.
During WWII, the SS formed a unit called the Werewolves to resist allied occupation forces.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 54.
The events of 9/11 occurred on the Tuesday after Labor Day.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 55.
Leif Eriksson also known as Leif the Lucky is thought to have been the first European to land in North America.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 56.
King Frederick V of Bohemia is often referred to as the Winter King because of his short reign.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 57.
In Viking culture all men were expected to carry weapons.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 58.
The term digger, was applied to Australian soldiers because they dug trenches at Gallipoli to escape enemy fire.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 59.
The Battle of Stalingrad ended in February 1943.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 60.
The grave of Jesse James was exhumed in 1995 and it was found out that the person buried there was actually Jesse James.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 61.
Durong the Salem Witch Trials, those accused of witchcraft were burned at the stake.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 62.
John Walsh, host of Americas Most Wanted, is the father of kidnapped and murdered six-year-old, Adam Walsh.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 63.
During the German Blitzkrieg in the West (1940), Italy was initially reluctant to aid its ally and stayed on the sideline.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 64.
The San Francisco 49ers are an NFL team named after the prospectors that took part in the California Gold Rush.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 65.
John Gray wrote the popular book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 66.
Vikings were the first Europeans to discover North America.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 67.
Brezhnev was the 5th leader of the USSR.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 68.
Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 69.
Although the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasn't successful, it was the first significant uprising in German-occupied Europe during WWII.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 70.
The main actors in Platoon had to go through a 14-day military boot camp.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 71.
Sargon II, a king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was a direct descendant of Sargon of Akkad.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 72.
Brazil used to be an empire.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 73.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is a quote from French philosopher Voltaire.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 74.
The commander of the Hessian Garrison during the Battle of Trenton was taken to Philadelphia where he was questioned by the Congress on January 7th, 1777.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 75.
Oxygen levels during the Mesozoic were lower than todays levels.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 76.
Witchcraft was used as the explanation for a sickness that afflicted some of the village girls in Salem. Historians now believe that the girls hallucinations may have been caused by eating moldy bread.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 77.
On December 7, 1942 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 78.
Two months after South Carolina seceded from the Union on December 21, 1860, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina voted to secede as well.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 79.
Anne of Austria was the mother of Louis XIV of France (the Sun King).
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 80.
Agamemnon, one of the most notable heroes of Greek mythology, was a ruler of Mycenae.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 81.
The New York Mets were World Champions in baseball in the 1986 world series.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 82.
The devastating Ham and Eggs Fire of 1906 was started when a skillet of ham and eggs was left burning for at least five hours when a family fled a crumbling building. This fire destroyed the City Hall of San Francisco, since there was no water to put it out.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 83.
On October 24, 1960, over 100 people died in the Soviet Union, in a rocket explosion that was not reported until the 1990s.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 84.
The song American Pie by Don McLean concerns a plane crash which took place on February 3, 1959.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 85.
Sinepuxent, a town on the eastern shore of Maryland, was destroyed by a tornado in 1818, and never rebuilt.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 86.
Hippocrates was known as the father of history.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 87.
The siege of Sarajevo, one of the longest sieges in the history of modern warfare lasted almost 4 years.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 88.
At the Naval battle of Mers-El-Kebir in 1940, the British Navy made a devastating blow against the Italian Navy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 89.
The AIDS epidemic was identified and named before 1980.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 90.
Socrates started the first true school of philosophy.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 91.
By the time Nicholas II was crowned tsar in 1896, the Russian Empire was the largest country in the world.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 92.
The Kingdom of Prussia briefly held land in Estonia.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 93.
The United States was a member of the League of Nations.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 94.
Barbados has never been a British colony.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False - 95.
Holocaust is a Greek word, originally meaning sacrifice by fire.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 96.
In 1999 the US Patent Office issued a patent for a bird diaper.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 97.
The fork came to Italy before any other European country.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 98.
On October 11, 1968, NASA launched Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 99.
In 1976 the US Patent Office issued a patent for an inflatable rug.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: True - 100.
Samuel F. B. Morse invented the telegraph key.
- ATrue
- BFalse
Answer: False
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