Many of us stop learning when we reach adulthood but this is a drastic mistake to make. Life is all about learning and there is new knowledge to be gained every single day that we are on this planet. We will never run out of history to learn about as we are always making more of it.
History is entirely a renewable resource and it is ours to make. Even the sentence you just read, and what you are going to do next is and will become a part of your history.
Only about a third of adults can pass this random history knowledge quiz but there is a chance that you fall into that group of people. If you think you know more about history than the large majority of the adult population then you will want to take this quiz, answer the questions contained within, and we will see how much you actually know about human history.
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Only 34% Of Adults Can Pass This Random History Trivia Quiz Questions
Who is generally credited with having been the first king of England and ruled from 802 until 839?
Egbert
Edward III
King Ralph
Henry II
What year was slavery in the United States abolished?
1901
1883
1865
1849
The Hundred Years' War was fought from 1337 until 1453 between England and what other country?
France
United States of America
Spain
Russia
What year did D-Day take place during World War II?
1944
1942
1941
1939
In what United States city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas
Los Angeles
Washington, D.C.
New York City
In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
1712
1865
1804
1773
What was the 48th state to officially join the United States of America?
Alaska
Hawaii
Arizona
New Mexico
What explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Leif Erikson
Ferdinand Magellan
Amelia Earhart
Christopher Columbus
What was the second Japanese city hit with an atomic bomb during World War II?
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Fukushima
Hiroshima
What country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
Italy
France
England
Canada
In what year did the American Revolution war begin?
1865
1824
1765
1712
What famous and important invention is generally credited to Johannes Gutenberg?
The Steve Gutenberg
The lightbulb
The printing press
The automobile
What year did the Soviet Union fall?
1979
1985
1991
1994
Who was the 25th president of the United States of America?
Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
What year did Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin become the first human in space?
1949
1954
1968
1961
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15/15 Community Hero the revolutionary war began in 1775-1783.The answer on the quiz is the war began in 1765 which is wrong.Please correct this question on this quiz as soon as possible,thank you.