Famous People
He who was the face of the Quit India movement.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
Where the 'Dinosaur Meteor' is assumed to have impacted.
What is Yucatan, Mexico?
(Either/Or works)
Name the two countries and the respective wars they have declared on birds.
What is...
Australia (the Emu Wars)
China (the great leap forward)The smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
Adolf Hitler's birthday.
(The year is optional)
What is April 20th, 1898?
(double points if answered with the year)
The 'Father of the Turks'.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
Germany is nearly as large as this US state.
What famous battle saw English Longbowmen claim victory over the French in 1415?
the Battle of Agincourt
The country that would've hosted the canal if Panama didn't.
What is Nicaragua?
(fun fact: they attempted to build it again in 2013)
This happened in Beijing on the 15th of April, 1989.
What is the Tiananmen Square protests?
The first Christian Roman Emperor.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
(double points if answered with Flavius Valerius Constantinus)
The region where the Tunguska event occurred.
What is Krasnoyarsk, Russia?
(Siberia is also acceptable)
Liechtenstein suffered negative casualties during this conflict. The outcome of the war also determined which country would unify Germany.
What is the Austro-Prussian War, or the Brothers' War, or the Seven Weeks War, or the German Civil War.
(fun fact: Liechtenstein dispatched 80 men to fight. They made a friend and returned with 81)
The six US states that were formerly their own countries.
What is Vermont, Florida, Texas, California, Oregon and Hawaii?
The date of the Armistice of Compiègne.
What is the 11th of November, 1918?
The last emperor of China, and what he is famous for in China today.
Who is Emperor Puyi, he who went from Emperor to Citizen?
[vaguely close answers are acceptable]
The location of Old Zealand.
What is the Netherlands?
In which battle were bees considered a belligerent?
What is the Battle of Tanga
(the Battle of the Bees is also acceptable)What is Mongolia, China, the United States, France, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
(any five will do)
What the Magyar tribes did after settling down in the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE.
What is the proclamation of Hungary?
He who is credited with the discovery of Penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The location of llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
What is Wales?
(England, Britain & the UK do not count)
An infamous war fought in 1325 between the Italian city states of Bologna and Modena. The conflict was instigated by the supposed theft of an item which gives its namesake to the war.
What is The War of the Bucket?
(fun fact: the bucket remained stolen by the victors, and remains on display to this day)
The nation which hosts an island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island.
What is The Philippines?
(Lake Taal, Luzon)
The exact day that modern consumerism and global trade began.
What is the 26th of April, 1956?
(the Ideal X sets sail, after Malcom McLean invented the shipping container)