These difficult world history questions were actually asked on the TV game show Jeopardy!, and the people who go on that show aren't exactly amateurs. The ones who perform well tend to be well-educated and extensively studied on various topics including history. Even people who know a lot about world history aren't going to be able to do that well on this quiz due to the difficulty level. If, however, you happen to have a love of world history and are familiar with the format of Jeopardy!, then you might actually do quite well.
This quiz will test your knowledge of a variety of aspects of history, including wars, colonialism, capital cities, and more. Someone with merely a passing knowledge of world history is not going to do particularly well. Go ahead and give this quiz your best shot. Even if you don’t do well, you’ll learn a lot of interesting things about our world.
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These Questions About World History Were Asked on Jeopa… Quiz Questions
Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague and this other major disaster.
What is the Great Fire of London?
What is the Great Smog of London?
What is the Black Death?
What is the London Beer Flood?
On June 16, 1963, she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched into space two days earlier.
Who is Captain Marvel?
Who is Christina Koch?
Who is Svetlana Savitskaya?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This Hun got an annual tribute of 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans.
Who is Bleda?
Who is Ernak?
Who is Ruga?
Who is Attila?
He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature partly for his six-volume history of World War II.
Who is François Mauriac?
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Who is Winston Churchill?
Who is Boris Pasternak?
This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.
Who is Ángela Gurría?
Who is Silvia Torres-Peimbert?
Who is Rosario Ibarra?
Who is Carlota?
In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years.
What is Russia?
What is the USA?
What is Japan?
What is China?
The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938.
What is Russia?
What is Hungary?
What is Switzerland?
What is Germany?
Prospering under Tatar rule and expanding as it intersected trade routes, this city became a capital in the 15th century.
What is Budapest?
What is Minsk?
What is Moscow?
What is Warsaw?
In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region.
What is Jerusalem?
What is Cairo?
What is Medina?
What is Baghdad?
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.
Who is Elizabeth I?
Who is Cleopatra?
Who is Hatshepsut?
Who is Catherine the Great?
The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence.
What is Algeria?
What is Senegal?
What is Cameroon?
What is the Ivory Coast?
During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London.
Who is Juliana?
Who is Wilhelmina?
Who is Beatrix?
Who is Máxima?
In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president.
What is Trinidad and Tobago?
What is Tonga?
What is the Solomon Islands?
What is the Philippines?
The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country.
What is Chile?
What is Nicaragua?
What is Iraq?
What is Cuba?
In 1950, two years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-un?
Who is Kim Tu-bong?
Who is Kim Jong-il?
Who is Kim Il-sung?
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I got 4 out of 15!
You flunked! Don’t feel too badly, there were some difficult questions on this quiz.
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