Trivia Quiz on 20th Century

1. Which Russian Tsar died at Ekaterinburg in 1918

A) Nicholas ii

B) Alexander II

C) Nicholas I

D) Peter the Great

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2. What was built on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York

A) Chrysler Building

B) Empire state building

C) Rockefeller Center

D) One World Trade Center

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3. Who was the last person executed by the guillotine

A) Hamida djandoubi

B) Louis XVI

C) Marie Antoinette

D) Maximilien Robespierre

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4. Sarah Jane Fulks - Anne Francis Bobbins both married who

A) Ronald Reagan

B) J Wyman

C) N Davis

D) Ronald Reagan J Wyman N Davis

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5. Who famously owned a yacht called Lady Ghislaine?

A) Robert Maxwell

B) Donald Trump

C) Richard Branson

D) Roman Abramovich

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6. Peter Lorre was born in what year

A) 1903

B) 1905

C) 1908

D) 1904

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7. Who said "Canada? I don't even know what street Canada is on"

A) Lucky Luciano

B) Mickey Cohen

C) Al Capone

D) Pablo Escobar

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8. Who wrote The Caine Mutiny

A) John Steinbeck

B) James Michener

C) Herman Wouk

D) Tom Clancy

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9. When was Mount Everest first climbed

A) 1924

B) 1950

C) 1953

D) 1963

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10. Who was the 26th president of the U.S.

A) Woodrow Wilson

B) Harry S. Truman

C) William Howard Taft

D) Theodore roosevelt

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11. Who invented painting by numbers?

A) Da Vinci

B) Palmer paint company

C) Bob Ross

D) Walt Disney

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12. When was the Berlin wall erected

A) 1958

B) 1961

C) 1963

D) 1989

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13. What was Cecil B. De Mille's Middle name

A) Theodore

B) Leroy

C) Blount

D) Alexander

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14. In 1931 the British Empire became the what

A) Empire

B) Commonwealth

C) Dominions

D) Federation

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15. Who wrote 'gone with the wind'

A) Harper Lee

B) Emily Bronte

C) Margaret mitchell

D) Louise Erdrich

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16. During what period in american history did thousands of people die or go blind from drinking bad liquor

A) Prohibition

B) The Great Depression

C) The Gilded Age

D) The Whiskey Rebellion era

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17. Ralph Freeman designed which Australian landmark

A) Sydney Opera House

B) Anzac Bridge

C) West Gate Bridge

D) Sydney harbour bridge

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18. Fulton John Short - Later John Fulton first US to do what

A) Qualify as Matador

B) Win an Olympic gold medal in fencing

C) Climb Mount Everest

D) Invent the electric light bulb

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19. John Gore, Edward Saunders pioneered what org in Australia

A) YMCA Australia

B) Salvation Army

C) St. John Ambulance Australia

D) Australian Red Cross

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20. Who controlled the government of china before mao tse tung

A) Chiang kai-chek

B) Mao Zedong

C) Sun Yat-sen

D) Zhou Enlai

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21. Which real person took name meaning Man of Steel

A) Nikita Khrushchev

B) Benito Mussolini

C) Mikhail Gorbachev

D) Joseph Stalin

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22. India became independent in what year

A) 1942

B) 1947

C) 1930

D) 1950

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23. Who wrote Lord Of The Rings

A) J.R.R. tolkien

B) George R.R. Martin

C) J.K. Rowling

D) C.S. Lewis

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24. Who was the first prime minister of Israel

A) Golda Meir

B) Levi Eshkol

C) David ben gurion

D) Menachem Begin

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25. Which country was the first to make seat belts compulsory

A) Czechoslovakia

B) United Kingdom

C) Sweden

D) France

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26. In which country was Robert Maxwell born

A) Poland

B) Germany

C) Hungary

D) Czechoslovakia

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27. Artist Marc Chegal died in 1985 in what country was he born

A) Ukraine

B) Russia

C) France

D) Germany

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28. Which English composer wrote a Sea symphony

A) Ralph Vaughan Williams

B) Edward Elgar

C) Gustav Holst

D) Benjamin Britten

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29. The hamburger was invented in what year

A) 1900

B) 1890

C) 1904

D) 1916

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30. The Associated Powers - the original proposed name of what

A) The United Nations

B) The League of Nations

C) NATO

D) The World Federation

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31. What is the name of Princess Anne's second husband

A) Mark Phillips

B) Tim laurence

C) Prince Charles

D) Andrew Parker Bowles

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32. What nationality was Johnny Weismuller

A) American

B) Hungarian

C) Romanian

D) French

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33. The Ideal toy company was the first to mass produce what item

A) Teddy Bears

B) Barbie dolls

C) G.I. Joe action figures

D) Mr. Potato Head

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34. Whom did David Steel succeed as leader of the Liberal Party

A) Jo Grimond

B) Jeremy thorpe

C) David Lloyd George

D) William Ewart Gladstone

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35. In common: henry ford, adolf hitler, frank sinatra, orville and wilbur wright

A) They all completed high school

B) They all pursued careers in politics

C) Secondary school dropouts dropped out of school school drop out

D) They all dropped out of college

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36. What nationality is Yehudi Menuhin

A) American

B) British

C) French

D) German

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37. Whose autobiography is titled 'groucho and me'

A) Harpo Marx

B) Groucho marx

C) Karl Marx

D) Charlie Chaplin

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38. When did England's lease on Hong Kong expire

A) 1990

B) 1995

C) 1999

D) 1997

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39. When was the Fascist party founded in Italy

A) 1918

B) 1920

C) 1919

D) 1922

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40. Who was the American millionaire, given an honorary knighthood in 1980

A) Howard Hughes

B) Ted Turner

C) Bill Gates

D) John Paul Getty Jr

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41. Who wrote 'the female eunuch'

A) Betty Friedan

B) Simone de Beauvoir

C) Gloria Steinem

D) Germaine Greer

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42. Who led the 'kon-Tiki expedition in 1947

A) Jacques Cousteau

B) Thor heyerdahl

C) Roald Amundsen

D) Ernest Shackleton

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43. What is the former name of Zaire

A) Congo Free State

B) Republic of the Congo

C) Belgian Congo

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44. Who was Pope during World War II

A) Pope Pius XI

B) Pius xii

C) Pope John XXIII

D) Pope Benedict XV

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45. Book It was a bright cold day in April and clocks were striking 13

A) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

B) Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

C) 1984 George Orwell

D) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

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46. Who was the inventor of the "stop sign"

A) Garrett Morgan

B) Henry Ford

C) Edward N. Hines

D) William phelps eno

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47. What year did the Bolsheviks overthrow the Russian government

A) 1916

B) 1918

C) 1917

D) 1905

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48. What legendary us magazine publisher was born in tengchow, china

A) William Randolph Hearst

B) Conde Nast

C) Henry luce

D) Rupert Murdoch

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49. Who Was The Last Female Winner Of Wimbledon In The 20th Century (1999)

A) Martina Hingis

B) Jana Novotná

C) Steffi Graf

D) Lindsey Davenport

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50. When was crystal palace destroyed

A) 1936

B) 1934

C) 1935

D) 1937

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