Hard World History Quiz

 

1 - Friedrich Barbarossa died in 1190, to the great relief of Saladin, while travelling through Asia Minor on crusade. On which Crusade was this?

2 - Who was the last Great Khan of Mongolia?

3 - How did the rule of Charles V of Spain end?

4 - Who is Stamford Raffles?

5 - Since Italian unification in 1861, which of these cities has never at one point been capital of Italy?

6 - What political coalition was elected in France in 1936?

7 - Who brought the name Santa Claus with them to the New World?

8 - In which country was the use of the longbow first reported?

9 - Which crusade founded the Latin empire in Constantinople?

10 - When was the Welsh act of Union?

11 - Who was president of the United States when the first southern states seceded from the Union?

12 - Which city served as a co-capital of the ancient Persian empire and was the scene of a bizare mass wedding between hundreds of Alexander the Great's soldiers and native women?

13 - What was the last Republican city to fall to the Nationalist in the Spanish Civil War?

14 - Where is the oldest university in Europe?

15 - Which family dominated Japan during the Heian period ?

16 - Who was the first Caliph?

17 - Which Chinese dynasty moved the capital to Beijing?

18 - Of which ancient civilization is the mural below typical?

19 - What did the Battle of the Plains of Abraham decide?

20 - During the Iranian revolution, a group of Americans was taken hostage at the US embassy by radicals, leading to a serious international incident. For how long were these hostages held?

 

  

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