World History Facts Trivia

Question 1

In what year did the Titanic sink?

Accepted Answer

1912

Question 2

Who discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 3

Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the USA?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 4

Who invented the lightbulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 5

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

Accepted Answer

Neil Armstrong

Question 6

What used to be sold as medicine, supposed to treat everything from indigestion to jaundice?

Accepted Answer

Ketchup

Question 7

Julius Caesar loved his horse so much that he did what?

Accepted Answer

Made him ruler over the Senate

Question 8

In 1230, Pope Gregory IX called for a ban on what?

Accepted Answer

Black cats

Question 9

Experts estimate that 46 BC lasted for how many days, making it the longest year ever recorded?

Accepted Answer

445

Question 10

The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 lasted how long?

Accepted Answer

Just half an hour

Question 11

Frank Hayes, famed horse jockey, won a race in 1923 despite what?

Accepted Answer

Dying during the race

Question 12

Lord Byron, famed English poet, kept what in his Cambridge dorm room?

Accepted Answer

A bear

Question 13

Napoleon was once attacked by hordes of what, after they were released for his rabbit hunt?

Accepted Answer

Rabbits

Question 14

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who lived 93 years, survived what?

Accepted Answer

Two atomic bomb drops

Question 15

Historians believe Alexander the Great was likely buried while he was alive due to what?

Accepted Answer

A paralysis-inducing disease in his last few days

World History Facts trivia