WorksheetsWorld History Trivia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which historical figure lived between the years of 1815 and 1898?
Otto von Bismarck
Thomas Jefferson
Grigori Rasputin
Mohandas Gandhi
Who was the first Western explorer to reach China?
Ferdinand Magellan
James Cook
Sir Francis Drake
Marco Polo
In 1971, Idi Amin led a military coup in which country?
Papua New Guinea
Angola
Ghana
Uganda
Prime Minister Golda Meir was the leader in what country?
Pakistan
Israel
Peru
India
Which U.S. president met with Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a series of talks to reduce nuclear weapons?
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
What controversial structure went up in 1961 and came down in 1990?
Great Wall
Jorba Laboratories
Berlin Wall
John Wayne Gacy's Home
What political work did Karl Marx co-author?
Mein Kampf
The Wealth of Nations
The Communist Manifesto
The Jungle
What is the name of the famous battle in which Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated?
Battle of Rolica
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Waterloo
What country was NOT a member of Axis powers in World War II?
Germany
Italy
Soviet Union
Japan
Which British queen ruled from 1837 to 1901?
Victoria
Mary
Elizabeth
Elizabeth II
The assassination of what political leader helped trigger the start of World War I?
Boutros Ghali
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Czar Nicholas
William McKinley
Which leader was officially referred to as the Dear Leader?
Vladimir Putin
Adolf Hitler
Kim Jong Il
Fidel Castro
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was fought in which country?
Norway
France
Russia
England
Roughly how much per acre did the United States pay Russia for the land that is now Alaska?
2 cents
50 cents
$1.00
$12.50
Which student of Aristotle became king of Macedonia and conquered almost all of Persia?
Xerxes
Herodotus
Mark Anthony
Alexander the Great
Who was in the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the moon?
John Glenn
Michael Collins
Eugene Cernan
Jim Lovell
Famed Roman slave and gladiator, Spartacus, was born in which country?
Greece
Italy
Bulgaria
Albania
The Hundred Years War was fought between which two countries?
Italy and Greece
France and England
France and Germany
Spain and Italy
Who replaced Boris Yeltsin as the President of Russia in 1999?
Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Dmitry Medvedev
Gennady Yanayev
Which great leader committed a treasonous act and crossed the Rubicon river?
Alexander the Great
Augustus Caesar
Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
