Years
When did the second world war end?
1945
World War 2 is generally said to have started when Germany invaded... what country?
Poland
Who was the ruler of Rome, who never became emperor, but whose name became the basis for the word in many languages?
Julius Caesar (Kejsare, Kaiser, Tsar, etc.)
What is the name commonly used for the first epoch of human (pre)history?
The stone age.
What geopolitically important event took place in Germany on November 9th, 1989?
The fall of the Berlin wall
What year did the Russian revolution start?
1917
Where did (most of) the 30-year war take place?
Modern-day Germany.
Who was the first president of the United States?
George Washington
What is the epoch when democracy was "invented" in Athens called?
Antiquity.
What was the process that created the Protestant church called?
The Reformation.
What year did the attack on the World Trade Center occur? (9/11)
2001
Name two of the members of the Central Powers of World War 1. (Hint: this alliance was also called the Quadruple Alliance)
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Ottoman Empire
At the Yalta conference, the Allied forces of World War Two discussed what to do about Germany after the war. Who were the three leaders who participated?
Roosevelt
Churchill
Staling
When the rest of Europe were in the Iron Age, Scandinavia is sometimes said to have had their own period. What was this period called?
The Viking Age.
What happened on 11/11 at 11.00 in a forest in eastern France, year 1918?
Armistice for world war 1.
What decade was the "first" Swedish king, Gustav Vasa, crowned?
1520s (1528)
World War 2 is generally thought of as occurring between 1939 and 1945. If we were to include the Japanese occupation of China, which years would the war be during then?
1937 to 1945
What was the name of the last Aztec emperor?
Moctezuma (Montezuma)
Egyptian history is often divided into "kingdoms". How many of these periods were there?
Three.
Old kingdom, middle kingdom, new kingdom.
What happened to London year 1666?
It burned down (not all, but much of it).
What year was the battle of Hastings?
1066
What war is sometimes called the actual First World War and occurred in the 1700s?
Seven years war.
French- and Indian War.
Djingis Khan was a feared Mongol warlord who conquered much of the world. What was the name of his son, who took over after his father?
Kublai (Khan)
In which order did these three events take place:
Founding of Oxford University
Fall of the Aztec Empire
Invention of Calculus
1. Oxford (1096)
2. Fall of the Aztec Empire (1520s)
3. Invention of Calculus (1660s)
What happened to India on June 22nd 1948?
It gained independence