Horrible Histories
During the witch trials, this action was necessary to be found innocent in a trial by water.
What is drowning?
UN Security Council is located in this city.
What is New York City?
This fictional continent is the center of many conspiracy theories.
What is Atlantis?
This writer coined the term "Cold War".
Who is George Orwell?
Due to this famous businessman's arrogant tweet his company lost 14 billion dollars.
Who is Elon Musk?
This simple maintenance activity almost reignited the Korean war in 1976.
What is cutting down a tree?
(The United States army cut down a poplar tree in the de-militarized zone because it was obstructing the line of sight from a guard post. The North Korean side claimed that the tree was planted by Kim Il-Sung.)
This is how many working languages are in the UN.
What is six?
This magical race is speculated to be secretly ruling the world.
What are Reptilians?
In 1959 Soviet chairman Nikita Krushchev was denied entry into this theme park.
What is Disneyland?
(He went to SeaWorld instead.)
The people of this country ate their prime minister in 1672.
What is the Netherlands?
The Second World War never ended, because these two countries are technically still at war.
What are Russia and Japan?
This is the year when League of Nations closed down.
What is 1939?
This West Virginian humanoid creature is described as a large flying man with three metre wings.
What is Mothman?
The CIA's Cold War project Acoustic Kitty was allegedly a failure because of this.
What is the cat getting hit by a car?
(The CIA trained a cat to be able to spy, surgically installed microphones, only for the cat getting ran over shortly after being sent out.)
A politician of this country was thrown into a garbage bin and held there in 2014.
What is Ukraine?
In a battle with 100 000 Austrians, the Ottoman empire lost no soldiers because of this reason.
What is being late?
(For context, the Austrians managed to lose 150 men and a warchest to friendly fire, while waiting for the Ottoman force to arrive.)
This is the first country to speak in the General Assembly.
What is Brazil?
This conspiracy theory was largely the reason for the January 6th Capitol riots in 2021.
What is QAnon?
This was United States' plan B, if they were to lose the space race to the Soviets.
What is nuking the moon?
(Yes, actually. Look up Project A119.)
The act of defenestration means showing your anger in this very specific manner.
What is throwing someone out of the window?
Upon running out of Pepsi, the Soviet Union sold these things to Pepsi Co.
What is military equipment?
(The Soviet Union sold Pepsi Co a Soviet cruiser, a frigate, a destroyer, 17 submarines and a handful of oil tankers. That made Pepsi Co the world's 6th biggest navy in 1989.)
These were the Big Four founding members of UN.
What are the United States, the United Kingdom, China and the Soviet Union?
This famous former British footballer is now one of the world's leading conspiracy theorists, "credited" with popularizing theories such as Reptilians and being a leading producer of COVID-19 and 5G misinformation.
Who is David Icke?
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed, that should this happen, they would pause the Cold War and work together.
What is an alien invasion?
The price of this politicians funeral prompted a comedian to suggest that instead of paying 3 million pounds, they should just give every Scot a shovel and they'd dig a hole so deep, that They could be handed to the Devil personally.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?