These Questions About World History Were Actually Asked on “Jeopardy!” — Can You Get 12/15?

Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague and this other major disaster.

• What is the London Beer Flood?

• What is the Great Fire of London?

• What is the Great Smog of London?

• What is the Black Death?

On June 16, 1963, she blasted into orbit, joining Valery Bykovsky who had been launched into space two days earlier.

• Who is Christina Koch?

• Who is Captain Marvel?

• 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 Ernak?

• Who is Bleda?

• Who is Attila?

• Who is Ruga?

He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature partly for his six-volume history of World War II.

• Who is François Mauriac?

• Who is Winston Churchill?

• Who is Boris Pasternak?

• Who is Ernest Hemingway?

This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.

• Who is Carlota?

• Who is Silvia Torres-Peimbert?

• Who is Ángela Gurría?

• Who is Rosario Ibarra?

In 1910 Korea was annexed by this country that held it for the next 35 years.

• What is China?

• What is Russia?

• What is the USA?

• What is Japan?

The "Anschluss" was the forced union of Austria with this country in 1938.

• What is Russia?

• What is Switzerland?

• What is Germany?

• What is Hungary?

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 Warsaw?

• What is Minsk?

• What is Moscow?

In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region.

• What is Medina?

• What is Baghdad?

• What is Jerusalem?

• What is Cairo?

In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.

• Who is Hatshepsut?

• Who is Cleopatra?

• Who is Catherine the Great?

• Who is Elizabeth I?

The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence.

• What is Senegal?

• What is Algeria?

• What is the Ivory Coast?

• What is Cameroon?

During World War II, this queen of the Netherlands headed her government-in-exile from London.

• Who is Wilhelmina?

• Who is Máxima?

• Who is Juliana?

• Who is Beatrix?

In 1935, under U.S. rule, it became a commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as president.

• What is Tonga?

• What is the Solomon Islands?

• What is Trinidad and Tobago?

• What is the Philippines?

The Contras were a U.S.-backed force battling the government of this country.

• What is Iraq?

• What is Nicaragua?

• What is Chile?

• What is Cuba?

In 1950, two years into his long dictatorship, he invaded South Korea.

• Who is Kim Jong-un?

• Who is Kim Jong-il?

• Who is Kim Tu-bong?

• Who is Kim Il-sung?