History trivia questions and answers
The Quickfire pack has 50 History questions, all written in English and Spanish. Here are 15 of them. Hosts get the full set, ready to put on a TV with players answering on their phones.
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What year did Christopher Columbus sail to America?
Answer: 1492.
Who was the first President of the United States?
Answer: George Washington.
What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America?
Answer: Mayflower.
In what year did the American Revolution begin?
Answer: 1775.
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Answer: John Wilkes Booth.
Which ancient state did Julius Caesar lead as dictator?
Answer: The Roman Republic.
When did the Berlin Wall fall?
Answer: 1989.
Who was the leader of Nazi Germany?
Answer: Adolf Hitler.
Which Paris fortress-prison was stormed by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789?
Answer: The Bastille.
In what year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: 1776.
Who invented the printing press?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg.
What was the Black Death?
Answer: Bubonic plague.
Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of which ancient kingdom?
Answer: Egypt (Ptolemaic Egypt).
In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Answer: Great Britain (England, United Kingdom).
Who led the Indian independence movement?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi.
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