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?
King Ralph
Edward III
Henry II
Egbert
What year was slavery in the United States abolished?
1865
1849
1883
1901
The Hundred Years' War was fought from 1337 until 1453 between England and what other country?
Russia
United States of America
France
Spain
What year did D-Day take place during World War II?
1944
1939
1941
1942
In what United States city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
New York City
Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles
Dallas
In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
1865
1804
1712
1773
What was the 48th state to officially join the United States of America?
Hawaii
Alaska
New Mexico
Arizona
What explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?
Leif Erikson
Amelia Earhart
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
What was the second Japanese city hit with an atomic bomb during World War II?
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Fukushima
Tokyo
What country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
France
England
Canada
Italy
In what year did the American Revolution war begin?
1824
1865
1712
1765
What famous and important invention is generally credited to Johannes Gutenberg?
The automobile
The Steve Gutenberg
The lightbulb
The printing press
What year did the Soviet Union fall?
1994
1979
1985
1991
Who was the 25th president of the United States of America?
William McKinley
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Benjamin Harrison
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.