Only A Historian Will Get All Of These Tricky Quiz Questions Correct

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Do you know when the First World War started or where the pyramids are located in Egypt? Then you might be able to pass this difficult history quiz!

Vanessa

Apr 23, 2018

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1 of 18Pick your answer!

Julius Caesar was the emperor of which empire?

Persia

Rome

Athens

2 of 18Pick your answer!

When did Columbus land in North America?

1066

1492

1975

3 of 18Pick your answer!

Why was 1914 an important year?

WW1 began

Alaska and Hawaii joined the US

The Titanic sank

4 of 18Pick your answer!

Located in Egypt are the Pyramids of ________

Nile

Cleopatra

Giza

5 of 18Pick your answer!

Who was the first American president?

John Adams

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

6 of 18Pick your answer!

The Nobel peace prize is named after ________

Alfred Nobel

Amanda Nobel

Adam Nobel

7 of 18Pick your answer!

Where did the ancient Olympic Games originate?

China

Egypt

Greece

8 of 18Pick your answer!

Which scientist invented the lightbulb?

Charles Darwin

Thomas Edison

Sir Isaac Newton

9 of 18Pick your answer!

What are the Wright brothers famous for?

Inventing the airplane

Inventing the printing press

Inventing electric trains

10 of 18Pick your answer!

Who was the writer of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

Lewis Caroll

William Shakespeare

Hans Christian Andersen

11 of 18Pick your answer!

How many wives did Henry VIII have?

100

12 of 18Pick your answer!

What was Mickey Mouse's original name?

Mortimer

Martin

Matthew

13 of 18Pick your answer!

Who founded the first public library in the U.S.?

Theodore Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Benjamin Franklin

14 of 18Pick your answer!

What famously crashed in 1929?

James Dean's car

The Twin Towers

Wall Street

15 of 18Pick your answer!

What nationality was Karl Marx?

American

German

Russian

16 of 18Pick your answer!

Which European city was divided by a wall at the height of the Cold War?

Berlin

Munich

Paris

17 of 18Pick your answer!

The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the United States by which country?

France

Spain

England

18 of 18Pick your answer!

Which was the first country to use paper money?