History Round 6 changes gears from true-or-false to multiple choice. Twenty questions spanning ancient empires, royal houses, revolutions, and the 20th century.
Pick the correct answer from four options. Fair warning — several of these require more than a guess.
- 20 questions
- Multiple choice
- Difficulty: Easy to Hard
- ~7 min
- Answers with explanations
- In which year did the Normans invade England at the Battle of Hastings?
- Who was the first Emperor of Rome?
- In which year was US President John F. Kennedy assassinated?
- Who led the Soviet Union during most of the Second World War?
- Who co-wrote "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848?
- The French Revolution effectively ended with the rise of which leader?
- Which Roman emperor famously "fiddled while Rome burned" in AD 64?
- Who is generally credited with inventing the telephone in 1876?
- In what year was the American Declaration of Independence signed?
- In which year did the United States purchase Alaska from Russia?
- Who is traditionally considered the first Emperor of a unified China?
- Who was Queen Victoria's husband?
- The Battle of Waterloo (1815) brought to an end which major conflict?
- Under which English monarch was the Spanish Armada defeated in 1588?
- In which year did the Russian (October) Revolution take place?
- Which ancient civilisation built the city of Machu Picchu in the Andes?
- Who was US President during most of the American Civil War?
- Who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe?
- The Hundred Years' War was fought mainly between which two countries?
- Apollo 11's lunar module was named what?