World War One
Hitler/World War Two
Civil Rights
JFK
Miscellaneous history
100

We all know the main countries of the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente - but which of the two alliances did Bulgaria support?

Triple Alliance

100

Which one of these is NOT a name for the beaches at D - Day landings:

A. Omaha
B. Gold
C. Juno
D. Eagle

Eagle

100

Why was Emmett Till in Money Mississippi?

Accept Pick cotton/summer work - or to visit uncle

100

By the time of the Assassination how many kids did Lee Harvey Oswald have?

2

100

What was the name of the Viking King who tried to take the English throne in 1066?

Harald Hadraada

200

What was the name of the gang involved in the assassination of Franz Ferninand?

The Black Hand

200

Hitler was born in Austria but what German city did he consider home? (he actually tried to take power there in 1923?

Munich

200

What did Martin Luther and the black community of Montgomery boycott through 1956-58?

Buses

200

Name the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby

200

Which year did America successfully go to the moon?

1969

300

What did a duck board do?

Provided drainage for the trench

300

How many days passed between the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

3

300

Put the following Civil Rights events in correct order:

  • Voting Rights Act
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • March on Washington
  • Little Rock Nine
  • Civil Rights Act
  • Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  • Little Rock Nine (1957)
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Civil Rights Act (1964)
  • Voting Rights Act (1965)
300

What was the name of the leader of Cuba the CIA want to get rid of of who they felt Kennedy did not help them enough with

Fidel Castro (accept Castro)

300

Which Asian country's civil war did the United Nations force (led by America) get involved in in 1950? 

Korea
400

The Battle of the Somme was the worst day in British Military history - Approximately how many British soldiers were killed?

20,000

400

What was 'Operation Barbarossa'?

German invasion of USSR (accept invasion of Russia/USSR)

400

Which of these is NOT a state associated with the Jim Crow Laws

A. Alabama
B. Georgia
C. Mississippi
D. Pennsylvania
E. Louisiana
F. South Carolina
G. Tennessee
H. Virginia
I. North Carolina

Pennsylvania

400

What is the name of the gun Lee Harvey Oswald used to assassinate Kennedy

Mannlicher Carcano - or something close - give 100 if they get one of the words

400

How many children did Tsar Nicholas have? And how many boys and how many girls?

5 (give 100 if this is the only part of the answer correct) 4 girls 1 boy

500

World War One finished at 11,11,11 1918 - what was the nationality of the last soldier killed in World War One before this deadline?

American

500

How old was Hitler when he died in the Bunker in 1945?

56 - give 200 if within 6 - 100 if with 12

500

Which year was Martin Luther King Assassinated?

1968 - give 100 if within 3 years

500

What date on November 1963 was Kennedy assassinated

22nd - give 100 if they get within 5 days

500

How many people died on the Titanic?

1516 - give 500 if within 16 - give 200 if within 300 and give 100 if within 400

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