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Monday, 7 July 2008

Free history quiz questions

After history quiz questions for your fun quiz, pub quizzes, online quiz or do you just want some nasty hard as nails history quiz trivia to brain tease yourself, friends, workmates and family with? Yes? Well, read on!

For starters, let's get your history brain ticking over with the following 4 history quiz questions with the right answers.

1. Who was the first man in space? Yuri Gagarin
2. Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans? Judas Escariot
3. Who was the first man to fly across the channel? Louis Bleriot
4. In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade? Crimean

Now try these very tricky history quiz questions without answers! (If you don't know the answers don't worry; the link at the end will take you to the answers sheet!)

5. What event supposedly occurred in the Coenaculum or Cenacle?
6. King Zog ruled which country?
7. Who took over as Fuhrer after Hitler's death till arrest 1945?
8. Where can you find London bridge today?
9. Name the legless fighter pilot of ww2?
10. Who sailed in the Nina - Pinta and Santa Maria?
11. Which leader died in St Helena?
12. What does ring a ring a roses refer to?
13. Who was the first man to run a sub four minute mile?
14. Who discovered radium?
15. Who painted The Haywain?
16. Which country had The Dauphin as a ruler?
17. Dwight Eisenhower was the first president to hold what?
18. 1300 to 1500 it was illegal for Englishmen to have 3 what a day?
19. Roman men had to swear on what to testify?
20. In ancient China people committed suicide by eating what?
21. What was the first battleship powered by steam turbines 1906?
22. Mare Nostrum was the Roman name for what?
23. The Romans called it Cambria - what do we call it?
24. The Red Rose City has what more common name in Jordan?
25. Who said "I've never had an accident worth talking about"?
26. Where was the worlds first oil well drilled?
27. Who said "A Single death is a tragedy a million a statistic"?
28. At the Festival of the Cleaver Spartans nailed what to the wall?
29. Who was the first man to set foot on all five continents ?
30. Who walked the Via Dolorosa - literally Dolorous Way?
31. What was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter?

If you got them all (or even most of them) then I'm astounded to be honest! The Venerable Bede has got nothing on you!

If you didn't get them all or even most and really want the answers then visit Free history quiz questions where I'll give you the answers to the quiz and much more besides if you want...like 10,000 totally free fun quiz questions - and when I say free I really do mean free quiz questions!