Question: Who gave their name to a continent?
Answer: Amerigo Vespucci
Question: What was Osama bin Laden’s code name?
Answer: Geronimo
Question: Who was the first king of Rome, according to the Roman tradition?
Answer: Romulus
Question: When did World War 2 End?
Answer: 1945
Question: How many sacraments are in the Catholic Church?
Answer: 7 sacraments
Question: To what historical event would you relate the tank man or unknown rebel?
Answer: Protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Question: Some say World War II began in 1931, when Japan conquered which region of China?
Answer: Manchuria
Question: Who founded Playboy magazine?
Answer: Hugh Hefner
Question: What does Mesolithic mean?
Answer: Middle Stone Age
Question: What year did the My Lai massacre take place?
Answer: 1968
Question: Who held the famous I have a dream speech in 1963?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: When did men first travel to space?
Answer: 1961
Question: What year did the Berlin wall fall?
Answer: 1989
Question: Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
Answer: The Union
Question: Who was Britain’s longest-reigning monarch?
Answer: Queen Victoria
Question: What was the main problem of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War?
Answer: Lack of fuel
Question: What year was America discovered?
Answer: 1492
Question: What was Sally Ride the first American woman to do?
Answer: Go into outer space
Question: Who in 1964, was the first person other than royalty, to appear on a British postage stamp?
Answer: Shakespeare
Question: How many popes from the House of Borgia have there been?
Answer: 3
Question: What year did the Gulf War Start?
Answer: 1990
Question: Where was Jesus of Nazareth born?
Answer: Bethlehem
Question: Henry VIII created his own church so he could divorce which wife?
Answer: Catherine of Aragon
Question: Who is the historical inspiration for the character Dracula?
Answer: Vlad the Impaler
Question: What is ‘Furor Teutonicus’?
Answer: Roman proverb
Question: What did ancient Egyptians use to write?
Answer: Papyrus
Question: What city was divided in two after the Second World War?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Which was the war pictured in the Homeric poem, the Iliad?
Answer: Trojan War
Question: After WWII, what country lost much of its eastern territory to Russia, but did pick up much of Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia?
Answer: Poland
Question: How many people died in the Munich massacre of 1972?
Answer: 17
Question: Lawrence of Arabia worked for what secret services?
Answer: British secret services
Question: Which of the following was an ally of the Russian Empire during the First World War?
Answer: France
Question: What year did the Titanic sink?
Answer: 1912
Question: What religious war was ordered by Pope Urban 2 to capture the Holy Land for Christianity?
Answer: The crusades
Question: What country did USA purchase Alaska from?
Answer: Russia
Question: What was the name of the list of books forbidden by the Church, created in 1559?
Answer: Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Question: Operation Barbarossa was the name of the German invasion of what country?
Answer: USSR
Question: What is the name of Prince Williams son?
Answer: George
Question: What was the weapon the most used by pirates?
Answer: Sabre
Question: Where did the Bolshevik Revolution take place?
Answer: Russia
Question: Which civilization constructed the Machu Picchu?
Answer: Incas
Question: What were the names given to the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Answer: Little Boy and Fat Man
Question: Who were the victims of the German terrorist group Baader-Meinhof?
Answer: Fascists
Question: Which was the weapon of choice for Samurais?
Answer: Katana
Question: Who was the dictator of Germany and took over most of Europe during the 194Os?
Answer: Hitler
Question: What year was the Popular Republic of China founded?
Answer: 1949
Question: When did the construction of the Titanic begin?
Answer: March 31 in 1909
Question: What Wonder of the Ancient World was in what is Iraq today?
Answer: Hanging gardens of Babylon
Question: What was the name Romans gave to Great Britain?
Answer: Britannia
Question: Who was the first president of the United States?
Answer: George Washington
Question: Who is the Greek goddess of love?
Answer: Aphrodite
Question: John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed in what city?
Answer: Dallas
Question: What animal did the ancient Egyptians consider gods?
Answer: Cats
Question: Iceland became independent of what country in 1918?
Answer: Denmark
Question: Which email-generated craze from the USA gathered momentum in the UK in 2003?
Answer: Flash Mobbing
Question: In Greek mythology, how was Achilles heel injured?
Answer: An arrow
Question: What year was the United Nations formed?
Answer: 1945
Question: What’s the name of the Greek god of wine?
Answer: Dionysus
Question: What language do Latin languages come from?
Answer: Latin
Question: Who discovered the sea route to India?
Answer: Vasco Da Gama
Question: In Greek mythology, who is the father of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades?
Answer: Kronos
Question: Which two countries reunited in 1976 after 22 years of separation?
Answer: North and South Vietnam
Question: Who was the first king of England?
Answer: William
Question: What British king of the Middle Age was nicknamed ‘Lion Heart’?
Answer: King Richard
Question: Where did Hitler write ‘Mein Kampf’?
Answer: In prison
Question: Who of the following didn’t participate in the Cuban Revolution?
Answer: Hugo Chavez
Question: When did Albania declare its independence?
Answer: 1912
Question: Where is tomato originally from?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Which country officially received the exiled Spaniards under Franco’s dictatorship?
Answer: Mexico
Question: Where was Pearl Harbor, the military based attacked by the Japanese army was located?
Answer: Hawaii
Question: What’s the substance used in churches characterized by releasing smoke?
Answer: Incense
Question: Police dogs are usually which of the following breeds?
Answer: German shepherd
Question: What starts with ‘Four score and seven years ago’ ?
Answer: Gettysburg Address
Question: Romulus and Remus were breastfed by’
Answer: A wolf
Question: What leaves did Romans wear on their head to symbolize victory?
Answer: Laurel leaves
Question: What is the mascot used by the American government to promote the preservation of forests?
Answer: Smokey the Bear
Question: What year did Bosnia and Herzegovina emancipate from Yugoslavia?
Answer: 1992
Question: Who designed the Montgolfier hot-air balloon?
Answer: Montgolfier brothers
Question: What was the name of Spain when it was a part of the Roman Empire?
Answer: Hispania
Question: Which country first started the construction of the Panama Canal?
Answer: France
Question: They started in 1096 and continued until the 14th century. What are we talking about?
Answer: The Crusades
Question: What was the Tlatelolco Massacre?
Answer: Repression against students in Mexico
Question: Whose motto is ‘We are a legion. We don’t forgive. We don’t forget?
Answer: Anonymous
Question: Who said ‘I have a dream’?
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr
Question: Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. born?
Answer: Atlanta, GA
Question: What hurricane caused in 2005 the greatest money loss to the United States?
Answer: Katrina
Question: Who was the first US President to resign from office?
Answer: Richard Nixon
Question: What year did New York’s Twin Towers fall?
Answer: 2001
Question: What was the name given to Napoleon’s army?
Answer: La Grande Arm??e
Question: What event is known in Gaelic as An Gorta Mr, meaning the Great Hunger?
Answer: Irish Potato Famine
Question: What was the name of the Propaganda Minister in Hitler’s Germany?
Answer: Joseph Goebbels
Question: Who created the Line Production to increase productivity?
Answer: H Ford
Question: In October 2003, which nation became the third one sending a man into space?
Answer: China
Question: Which countries were part of the Grand Alliance during Second World War?
Answer: Great Britain, USA and Russia
Question: Who are the three sons of Cronus?
Answer: Poseidon, Hades and Zeus
Question: Which of the following is not a religion?
Answer: Darwinism
Question: When was the Declaration of Independence of the United States adopted?
Answer: July 4th
Question: Who of the following was one of the greatest defenders of the black population in the United States and was murdered in 1968 for this reason?
Answer: Martin Luther King
Question: What was the name of Adolf Hitler’s wife?
Answer: Eva
Question: Who led the Scottish warriors into battle against England?
Answer: Sir Williams Wallace
Question: Which countries made up ‘Axis of Evil’ during World War 2?
Answer: Germany, Italy and Japan
Question: Who was Zoroaster?
Answer: Prophet
Question: What was the last Russian Imperial family?
Answer: The Romanovs
Question: What was the name of the American secret project with the purpose of building the first atomic bomb in history?
Answer: Manhattan Project
Question: Protestantism was born in what country?
Answer: Germany
Question: What was the name of the Austrian Empire after the revolution of 1848?
Answer: Austro-Hungarian Empire
Question: The Philippines was discovered by Europeans in what year?
Answer: 1521
Question: The Bubonic Plague that killed a quarter of the world’s population during the middle ages was caused by what agent?
Answer: Fleas
Question: ln which year did the first man walk on the moon?
Answer: 1969
Question: What does plutocracy mean?
Answer: Rule by the wealthy
Question: Who was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
Question: How many years did the Hundred Years’ War last?
Answer: 116 years
Question: Who invented the alphabet?
Answer: Phoenicians
Question: When did the First intifada take place?
Answer: 1987
Question: The country of Bolivia is named after which patriot?
Answer: Simon Bolivar
Question: What did John D. Dunlop invent?
Answer: The tire
Question: Where did the Bloody Sunday of 1905 take place?
Answer: Russia
Question: ln Greek mythology which goddess is Zeus’s wife?
Answer: Hera
Question: What kind of material was the Declaration of independence made of?
Answer: Hemp
Question: What was Henry Ford’s profession?
Answer: Entrepreneur
Question: What was the last European city visited by John F. Kennedy before he was murdered?
Answer: Berlin
Question: Who controlled England before the Norman Invasion in 1066?
Answer: Saxons
Question: What indigenous ethnia built Chichen Itza?
Answer: Mayans
Question: According to the Bible, Jesus delivered the Beatitudes as part of his ‘Sermon on the?_’?
Answer: Sermon on the Mount
Question: How did Madame Currie die?
Answer: Radiation poisoning
Question: Who was not a Roman Emperor?
Answer: Parallax
Question: Where is the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Answer: Les Invalides, Paris
Question: What army did the 300 represent?
Answer: Spartan army
Question: Where were the Jewish deported after Nebuchadnezzars conquest of Jerusalem?
Answer: Babylon
Question: Where was John F Kennedy Jr assassinated?
Answer: Dallas
Question: Who invented the printing press?
Answer: Gutenberg
Question: What year did the Mexican Revolution start?
Answer: 1910
Question: What South American country had a monarchy for more than 60 years?
Answer: Brazil
Question: What city is still governed by the Grimaldi family?
Answer: Monaco
Question: What kind of writing did the Egyptians use?
Answer: Hieroglyphic
Question: Which British Prime Minister won a Nobel Prize for Literature?
Answer: Winston Churchill
Question: Where was the first astronaut in history from?
Answer: Soviet Union
Question: Who won in 2009 the Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: Barack Obama
Question: What city was founded by Alexander the Great?
Answer: Alexandria