Trivia Quiz on 20th Century History

1. What was the name of the first U.S. atomic submarine

A) Nautilus

B) Skipjack

C) Triton

D) Seawolf

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2. In 1975 Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek died at the age of

A) 81

B) 87

C) 88

D) 90

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3. British king was known to family friends as David his last name

A) King George VI

B) King Henry VIII

C) King Charles II

D) King Edward the 8th

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4. What russian leader was killed with an icepick?

A) Trotsky

B) Lenin

C) Stalin

D) Khrushchev

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5. What was King George VI first name

A) George

B) Albert - but Victoria said no king Albert

C) Edward

D) Arthur

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6. Who said "Iv'e never had an accident worth talking about"

A) Captain Arthur Rostron of the Carpathia

B) Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise

C) Captain John Smith of the Mayflower

D) Captain E J Smith of the Titanic

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7. When was black the most common colour for automobiles

A) In the 1910s

B) In the 1950s

C) During the depression

D) During the 1970s

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8. Which country did Chiang Kai-shek found in 1949

A) Japan

B) Taiwan

C) People's Republic of China

D) South Korea

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9. King Farouk the First of Egypt was overthrown in 1952 and spent his exiled years mainly in which country, of which he became a citizen

A) Italy

B) France

C) Spain

D) Monaco

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10. Who in US was given Hitler's Supreme Order of German Eagle

A) Walt Disney

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Thomas Edison

D) Henry Ford

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11. Who was the first person to break the sound barrier

A) Chuck yager

B) Buzz Aldrin

C) Neil Armstrong

D) Yuri Gagarin

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12. In June of what year was the treaty ending WWl signed

A) 1919

B) 1918

C) 1920

D) 1917

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13. Thousand after what are the b52 bombers named

A) Fifties hairdo

B) Sixties beehive

C) Forties victory rolls

D) Seventies shag

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14. Who said "A Single death is a tragedy a million a statistic"

A) Vladimir Lenin

B) Nikita Khrushchev

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Winston Churchill

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15. Who was the last president of the U.S., as of 1998, to die in office

A) Abraham Lincoln

B) William Henry Harrison

C) John kennedy

D) James Garfield

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16. Who's aliases John Willard Eric Gault George Ramom Sneyd

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) David Berkowitz

C) John Wilkes Booth

D) James Earl Ray – killed M L King

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17. What was the (West) German capital before the 'Wiedervereinigung'

A) Berlin

B) Frankfurt am Main

C) Bonn

D) Cologne

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18. Radical russian marxists are known as

A) Bolsheviks

B) Mensheviks

C) SRs (Social Revolutionaries)

D) Anarchists

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19. What is the name of the Israeli national anthem

A) Yerushalayim Shel Zahav

B) Avinu Malkeinu

C) Hatikvah

D) Shalom Aleichem

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20. Holland hosted the Olympics in which year

A) 1928

B) 1900

C) 1936

D) 1948

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21. What do Julius Caeser, Ghandi and Trotsky have in common

A) They all became heads of state

B) All assassinated

C) They all led major revolutions

D) They all died of natural causes

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22. Who was the longest reigning Prime Minister of Britain in the 20th Century?

A) Tony Blair

B) Winston Churchill

C) Margaret Thatcher

D) Harold Wilson

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23. The Late Edward Smith "That Means He's Dead" Edward Smith Has What Historical Claim To Fame

A) Head of the British Royal Navy

B) Captain Of The Lusitania

C) Captain Of The Titanic

D) Discoverer of the Northwest Passage

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24. What country declared itself first atheist state in 1967

A) Soviet Union

B) France

C) Albania – banned religion

D) Turkey

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25. What was the Queen Mother's maiden name?

A) Windsor

B) Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

C) Mountbatten

D) Bowes Lyon

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26. As whom was Jan Ludvik Hoch better known

A) Robert Plant

B) Rupert Murdoch

C) Peter Maxwell

D) Robert maxwell

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27. Who was the last reigning King of Egypt

A) Ahmed Fuad II

B) Fuad I

C) Farouk

D) Ismail Pasha

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28. In which decade if the 20 century was the first Filofax sold

A) 1910s

B) 1920's

C) 1930s

D) 1940s

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29. As who, was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known

A) Vladimir Lenin

B) Karl Marx

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Leon trotsky

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30. The Suez Canal was nationalized in what year

A) 1869

B) 1950

C) 1956

D) 1967

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31. Which 20th century leader introduced the custom of carrying a flaming torch from Athens to the site of each Olympic games

A) Adolf hitler

B) Carl Diem

C) Pierre de Coubertin

D) Benito Mussolini

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32. Eglantine Jebb founded which charitable organisation

A) Oxfam

B) UNICEF

C) British Red Cross

D) Save the children fund

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33. Which exponent of solidarity was awarded the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize

A) Andrei Sakharov

B) Mother Teresa

C) Lech walesa

D) Aung San Suu Kyi

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34. How long was nelson mandela in prison

A) 26 years

B) 28 years

C) 27 years

D) 30 years

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35. What Do Cleopatra, Margaret Thatcher And Mia Farrow Have In Common?

A) They all had famous fashion influences

B) All Have Twins

C) They all were involved in politics

D) They all appeared in major film roles

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36. What former resistance fighter was Israel's first Likud Party prime minister

A) Yitzhak Shamir

B) Ariel Sharon

C) Benjamin Netanyahu

D) Menachem Begin

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37. Which Argentinian politician commanded the invasion of the Falkland Islands

A) General Jorge Videla

B) Carlos Menem

C) Raúl Alfonsín

D) General galtieri

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38. Josip Broz became famous as who

A) Premier Tito

B) Marshal Tito

C) General Secretary of the Communist Party

D) King of Yugoslavia

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39. Biko was involved in what protest movement?

A) Civil Rights Movement

B) Suffragette Movement

C) Occupy Wall Street

D) Apartheid

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40. How did Mussolini die

A) Died in exile

B) Committed suicide

C) Execution

D) Natural causes

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41. Who was president when charles lindbergh flew into history

A) Herbert Hoover

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Calvin Coolidge

D) Warren G. Harding

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42. Which country's troops sustained the greatest number of deaths in WWll

A) Russia

B) Germany

C) China

D) Japan

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43. Up To & Including Tony Blair, How Many Prime Ministers Have Served Under Queen Elizabeth II

A) Ten

B) Nine

C) Eleven

D) Twelve

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44. Unu and Ne Win have been leading figures in the post- 1945 history of which country

A) Thailand

B) Laos

C) India

D) Burma

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45. This re opened in 1975 after being closed for 8 years

A) Panama Canal

B) Suez canal

C) Kiel Canal

D) Grand Canal

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46. What was adolf hitler's religion

A) Roman catholic

B) Lutheran

C) Agnosticism

D) Jehovah's Witness

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47. Who was the president of France 1947 54

A) Charles de Gaulle

B) Vincent Auriol

C) René Coty

D) Georges Bidault

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48. When was the Berlin Wall erected, and when was it dismantled

A) 1961 1989

B) 1961 1990 1961

C) 1953 1990

D) 1962 1991

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49. William Robert Greer (1909-1985) Is Famous For Undertaking Which Famous Historical Journey

A) JFK's Security Escort

B) The Pilot of Air Force One

C) The Leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

D) Kennedys Driver

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50. The secret police of which country were known as the 'Ton Ton Macoute'

A) Dominican Republic

B) Haiti

C) Cuba

D) Jamaica

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