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1 of 18Pick your answer!
Julius Caesar was the emperor of which empire?
Rome
Persia
Athens
2 of 18Pick your answer!
When did Columbus land in North America?
1492
1066
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 ________
Cleopatra
Giza
Nile
5 of 18Pick your answer!
Who was the first American president?
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John Adams
6 of 18Pick your answer!
The Nobel peace prize is named after ________
Alfred Nobel
Adam Nobel
Amanda 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?
Thomas Edison
Sir Isaac Newton
Charles Darwin
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?
William Shakespeare
Hans Christian Andersen
Lewis Caroll
11 of 18Pick your answer!
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
0
100
6
12 of 18Pick your answer!
What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
Matthew
Mortimer
Martin
13 of 18Pick your answer!
Who founded the first public library in the U.S.?
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
14 of 18Pick your answer!
What famously crashed in 1929?
Wall Street
The Twin Towers
James Dean's car
15 of 18Pick your answer!
What nationality was Karl Marx?
American
Russian
German
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?
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