Q. When did the World War I begin?

A) 1912

B) 1914

C) 1916

D) 1918

Answer: B) 1914

Q. Which year did the American Civil War end?

A) 1861

B) 1865

C) 1870

D) 1875

Answer: B) 1865

Q. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

A) 1987

B) 1988

C) 1989

D) 1990

Answer: C) 1989

Q. What year did the French Revolution start?

A) 1776

B) 1789

C) 1791

D) 1799

Answer: B) 1789

Q. When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

A) 1775

B) 1776

C) 1777

D) 1778

Answer: B) 1776

Q. Which year did the Titanic sink?

A) 1910

B) 1911

C) 1912

D) 1913

Answer: C) 1912

Q. When did India gain independence from Britain?

A) 1945

B) 1946

C) 1947

D) 1948

Answer: C) 1947

Q. In what year did the Russian Revolution occur?

A) 1905

B) 1917

C) 1921

D) 1924

Answer: B) 1917

Q. When did the Apollo 11 mission land on the moon?

A) 1967

B) 1968

C) 1969

D) 1970

Answer: C) 1969

Q. Which year marked the end of World War II?

A) 1943

B) 1944

C) 1945

D) 1946

Answer: C) 1945

Q. When did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

A) 1959

B) 1961

C) 1962

D) 1963

Answer: C) 1962

Q. What year did the Treaty of Versailles get signed?

A) 1918

B) 1919

C) 1920

D) 1921

Answer: B) 1919

Q. When did the United Nations form?

A) 1943

B) 1944

C) 1945

D) 1946

Answer: C) 1945

Q. In what year was the Battle of Hastings fought?

A) 1065

B) 1066

C) 1067

D) 1068

Answer: B) 1066

Q. When did the Roman Empire fall?

A) 450 AD

B) 476 AD

C) 500 AD

D) 526 AD

Answer: B) 476 AD

Q. Which year did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have a Dream” speech?

A) 1962

B) 1963

C) 1964

D) 1965

Answer: B) 1963

Q. When did the Great Depression begin?

A) 1927

B) 1928

C) 1929

D) 1930

Answer: C) 1929

Q. In what year was the Magna Carta signed?

A) 1210

B) 1215

C) 1220

D) 1225

Answer: B) 1215

Q. When did the Korean War start?

A) 1949

B) 1950

C) 1951

D) 1952

Answer: B) 1950

Q. Which year did the Vietnam War end?

A) 1973

B) 1974

C) 1975

D) 1976

Answer: C) 1975

Q. When did Christopher Columbus discover America?

A) 1482

B) 1492

C) 1502

D) 1512

Answer: B) 1492

Q. What year did the Industrial Revolution begin?

A) 1750

B) 1760

C) 1770

D) 1780

Answer: B) 1760

Q. When did the Wright brothers make their first flight?

A) 1901

B) 1902

C) 1903

D) 1904

Answer: C) 1903

Q. In what year was the League of Nations founded?

A) 1919

B) 1920

C) 1921

D) 1922

Answer: B) 1920

Q. When did Julius Caesar get assassinated?

A) 44 BC

B) 43 BC

C) 42 BC

D) 41 BC

Answer: A) 44 BC

Q. When was the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

A) 1943

B) 1944

C) 1945

D) 1946

Answer: C) 1945

Q. Which year did the Spanish Civil War start?

A) 1933

B) 1934

C) 1935

D) 1936

Answer: D) 1936

Q. When did the Battle of Waterloo take place?

A) 1812

B) 1813

C) 1814

D) 1815

Answer: D) 1815

Q. When did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

A) 1300

B) 1350

C) 1400

D) 1450

Answer: B) 1350

Q. Which year was Nelson Mandela released from prison?

A) 1988

B) 1989

C) 1990

D) 1991

Answer: C) 1990

Q. When was the Euro introduced as currency?

A) 1999

B) 2000

C) 2001

D) 2002

Answer: A) 1999

Q. In what year did the Bay of Pigs invasion occur?

A) 1960

B) 1961

C) 1962

D) 1963

Answer: B) 1961

Q. When did Nelson Mandela become president of South Africa?

A) 1991

B) 1992

C) 1993

D) 1994

Answer: D) 1994

Q. Which year did the Gulf War start?

A) 1989

B) 1990

C) 1991

D) 1992

Answer: B) 1990

Q. When did the Berlin Blockade begin?

A) 1946

B) 1947

C) 1948

D) 1949

Answer: C) 1948

Q. In what year did the Falklands War take place?

A) 1980

B) 1981

C) 1982

D) 1983

Answer: C) 1982

Q. When was the first successful cloning of a sheep (Dolly)?

A) 1995

B) 1996

C) 1997

D) 1998

Answer: B) 1996

Q. When did the Great Fire of London happen?

A) 1664

B) 1665

C) 1666

D) 1667

Answer: C) 1666

Q. What year did the first manned spaceflight occur?

A) 1958

B) 1959

C) 1960

D) 1961

Answer: D) 1961

Q. When did the Roman Republic fall?

A) 31 BC

B) 30 BC

C) 29 BC

D) 28 BC

Answer: A) 31 BC

Q. Which year did the Spanish Armada get defeated?

A) 1586

B) 1587

C) 1588

D) 1589

Answer: C) 1588

Q. When did the Irish Potato Famine begin?

A) 1845

B) 1846

C) 1847

D) 1848

Answer: A) 1845

Q. In what year did the Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny) occur?

A) 1855

B) 1856

C) 1857

D) 1858

Answer: C) 1857

Q. When did the Boxer Rebellion take place?

A) 1898

B) 1899

C) 1900

D) 1901

Answer: C) 1900

Q. Which year did World War II begin?

A) 1937

B) 1938

C) 1939

D) 1940

Answer: C) 1939

Q. When did the Spanish-American War happen?

A) 1896

B) 1897

C) 1898

D) 1899

Answer: C) 1898

Q. What year was the first email sent?

A) 1969

B) 1970

C) 1971

D) 1972

Answer: C) 1971

Q. When did the Black Death plague begin in Europe?

A) 1346

B) 1347

C) 1348

D) 1349

Answer: B) 1347

Q. In which year was NATO formed?

A) 1947

B) 1948

C) 1949

D) 1950

Answer: C) 1949

Q. When did the Arab Spring start?

A) 2009

B) 2010

C) 2011

D) 2012

Answer: B) 2010

Q. Which year did the Chinese Cultural Revolution begin?

A) 1965

B) 1966

C) 1967

D) 1968

Answer: B) 1966

Q. When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

A) 1940

B) 1941

C) 1942

D) 1943

Answer: B) 1941

Q. In what year did the Boer War start?

A) 1897

B) 1898

C) 1899

D) 1900

Answer: C) 1899

Q. When did the Mau Mau Uprising begin in Kenya?

A) 1950

B) 1951

C) 1952

D) 1953

Answer: C) 1952

Q. Which year did the War of 1812 begin?

A) 1810

B) 1811

C) 1812

D) 1813

Answer: C) 1812

Q. When did the Meiji Restoration occur in Japan?

A) 1866

B) 1867

C) 1868

D) 1869

Answer: C) 1868

Q. In what year did the French and Indian War begin?

A) 1752

B) 1753

C) 1754

D) 1755

Answer: C) 1754

Q. When did the Boston Tea Party take place?

A) 1770

B) 1771

C) 1772

D) 1773

Answer: D) 1773

Q. What year did the Treaty of Tordesillas get signed?

A) 1492

B) 1493

C) 1494

D) 1495

Answer: C) 1494

Q. When did the European Union form?

A) 1991

B) 1992

C) 1993

D) 1994

Answer: C) 1993