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WorksheetsGKC - Weekly Quiz 14 - World History
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Hitler invaded USSR in June 22nd 1941. What was this invasion called?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Albatross
Operation Yellow Canary
Operation Ugly Duckling
What was the name of the theater that Abraham Lincoln was visiting when he got assassinated?
Ford's Theater
Bluebarn Theater
Central City Opera House
Saenger Theatre
Which city in modern Morocco became the world's largest city in 1770, taking over from Constantinople?
Fez
Tunisia
Casablanca
Marrakesh
In 1274, Kublai Khan invaded the Japanese island of Tsushima. After landing his troops, the weather became so infamously bad that he had to depart immediately. What was the name given to this weather?
Kamikaze
Narukami
Hanafuda
Seppuku
The Indus Valley civilization (Indu Nimna) was born around 2500 B.C. It collapsed around 1500 B.C when it was destroyed by whom?
Aryans
Mongols
Turks
Egyptians
What was the capital city of the famous Moghal empire?
Delhi
Kolkata
Mumbai
Karnataka
When did Japan annex Korea?
1910
1917
1885
1899
The Romans founded this city in 15 B.C as a military camp called Vindobona on the outskirts of their empire. Name the city.
Vienna
Prague
Salzburg
Venice
The sophisticated Andean, or Incan civilization existed in South America from 1410 to 1533. Which city was the capital of the empire?
Cuzco
Macchu Picchu
Lima
Puno
In 1982 UK and Argentina were at war after Argentina tried to annex this island. What is it?
Falklands Islands
Kidney Islands
Morioh Islands
Sea Lion Island
What was the first European nation to abolish the slave trade in 1792?
Denmark
Scotland
Germany
Slovakia
Who was the second explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Francis Drake
Ferdinand Magellan
Roald Amundsen
Bear Grylls
Which was the first state to break away from the USSR in the 1990s?
Lithuania
Ukraine
Belarus
Georgia
Who were the first civilized people to settle in Japan?
The Yayoi
The Heian
The Jomon
The Kofun
The cradle of the Sumerian civilization were the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. In what modern-day nation is this located?
Iraq
Armenia
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Which Nazi party leader other than Hitler committed suicide with his family in Hitler's bunker in Berlin April 1945?
Joseph Goebbels
Jonas Kahnwald
Martin Bormann
Otto Skorzeny
The palace of Versailles was built by which French King?
Louis XIV
Phillippe I
Henry IV
Marie Antoinette
Which US president was responsible for building the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
J.F.K
George Washington
When did the "The Tiananmen Square Massacre" take place in Tiananmen Square, China?
4th June 1989
1st April 1996
2nd February 1951
25th July 2006
This city was founded in 753 B.C by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus on the seven hills overlooking the Tiber River.
Rome
Scandinavia
Germany
Sweden
