Test your knowledge of world history with 10 pub quiz questions and answers — from ancient empires to modern revolutions. Play free online or use at your next quiz night.
📝 10 questions
First question:
Which explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, is traditionally credited with being the first European to reach the Americas in the modern era?
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1Which explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, is traditionally credited with being the first European to reach the Americas in the modern era?
💡 Christopher Columbus
2Which Roman general famously crossed the Rubicon river with his army in 49 BC, triggering a civil war and uttering the phrase 'the die is cast'?
💡 Julius Caesar
3What was the name of the South African policy of racial segregation and discrimination that was enforced by the government from 1948 until the early 1990s?
💡 Apartheid
4Which English queen, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, oversaw a period of relative stability and cultural flourishing sometimes called a golden age?
💡 Elizabeth I
5The Meiji Restoration of 1868 marked a dramatic transformation in which country, ending centuries of feudal rule and launching a rapid programme of modernisation?
💡 Japan
6Which Venetian merchant and explorer travelled to the court of Kublai Khan in the thirteenth century and later wrote a celebrated account of his journeys across Asia?
💡 Marco Polo
7The Haitian Revolution, which concluded in 1804, produced the world's first nation founded by formerly enslaved people — what was the name of the colonial power they overthrew?
💡 France
8Which French statesman served as the chief minister to Louis XIII and is credited with centralising royal power and laying the groundwork for French absolutism?
💡 Cardinal Richelieu
9Which Athenian statesman of the fifth century BC is credited with transforming the Delian League into an Athenian empire and overseeing the construction of the Parthenon?
💡 Pericles
10The Umayyad Caliphate reached its greatest territorial extent under which caliph, who ruled from 705 to 715 AD and oversaw conquests stretching from Iberia to the Indus?
💡 Al-Walid I
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