Trivia Quiz on 20th Century History Part 2

1. Which house did Winston Churchill live in from 1922 to his death

A) Chartwell

B) Blenheim Palace

C) Chequers

D) 10 Downing Street

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

A) Panama Canal

B) Suez Canal

C) Kiel Canal

D) Corinth Canal

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3. Who Was The First Director Of The Atomic Lab At Los Alamos New Mexico

A) Edward Teller

B) Hans Bethe

C) J Robert Oppenheimer

D) Richard Feynman

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4. Who was the ruler of the USSR from 1917-22?

A) Leon Trotsky

B) Joseph Stalin

C) Vladimir Lenin

D) Nikolai Bukharin

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5. *The war in Vietnam ended with the fall of Saigon in what year?*

A) 1968

B) 1973

C) 1979

D) 1975

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6. What was the initial capital of USSR?

A) Leningrad

B) Moscow

C) Petrograd

D) Kiev

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7. When And Over What Was The First British Referendum Held?

A) 1966, On joining the European Economic Community

B) 1973, On joining the European Economic Community

C) 1975, Membership Of The EEC

D) 1980, On the formation of the European Community

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8. What do historians call the journey made by Mao to the Northwest of China after Chiang Kai-Shek had driven his forces out of the South and East?

A) The Great March

B) The Northern Expedition

C) The Autumn Harvest Uprising

D) The Long March

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9. In 1975, what re-opened after an 8 year closure?

A) Panama Canal

B) Suez Canal

C) Kiel Canal

D) Erie Canal

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10. Who was the first dog in space ?

A) Rin Tin Tin

B) Laika

C) Balto

D) Lassie

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11. Who led 900 followers in a mass suicide in 1979?

A) Marshall Applewhite

B) Jim Jones

C) David Koresh

D) Charles Manson

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12. Which former dictator was executed by firing squad on Christmas Day 1999

A) Benito Mussolini, (Italy)

B) Idi Amin, (Uganda)

C) Saddam Hussein, (Iraq)

D) Nicolae Ceausescu, (Romania)

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13. Which corporation opened it's new headquarters in Portland Place, London in May 1932?

A) The BBC

B) Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)

C) British Petroleum (BP)

D) LNER

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14. Which Apollo space mission put the first men on the moon ?

A) Apollo 8

B) Apollo 11

C) Apollo 13

D) Apollo 12

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15. In 1953 Queen Elizabeth II was crowned following the death of her father George VI but what was his 'proper'' first name; David - Albert - Louis - Edward - George

A) David

B) Louis

C) Albert

D) Edward

E) George

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16. After the fall of the iron curtain, Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced a period of restructuring known as ________.

A) Glasnost

B) Destalinization

C) Perestroika

D) Shock Therapy

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17. How old was John F. Kennedy when he became president

A) 42

B) 44

C) 45

D) 43

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18. King Abdullah was assassinated in 1951. Of which country was he king?

A) Iraq

B) Saudi Arabia

C) Syria

D) Jordan

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19. Germany's WW I allies were Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and ________.

A) Turkey

B) Ottoman Empire

C) Italy

D) Romania

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20. Who was the last British Viceroy of India?

A) Lord Louis Mountbatten

B) Lord Wavell

C) Lord Linlithgow

D) Lord Irwin

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21. Where was Nelson mandela in prison?

A) Robben Island

B) Alcatraz Island

C) Pollsmoor Prison, Cape Town

D) Victor Verster Prison, Paarl

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22. Who Is The Father Of Queen Elizabeth 2nd

A) George V

B) Edward VIII

C) Prince Philip

D) George VI

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23. Of which country did Robert Menzies become Prime Minister in April 1939?

A) United Kingdom

B) New Zealand

C) Canada

D) Australia

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24. Who succeeded Churchill when he resigned in 1955?

A) Harold Macmillan

B) Clement Attlee

C) Alec Douglas-Home

D) Sir Anthony Eden

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25. Who succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of England?

A) Clement Attlee

B) Harold Macmillan

C) Anthony Eden

D) Harold Wilson

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26. Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge?

A) Pol Pot

B) Nuon Chea

C) Khieu Samphan

D) Ta Mok

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27. Which 20th century American icons died on Halloween

A) Elvis Presley

B) Marilyn Monroe

C) John F. Kennedy

D) River Phoenix

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28. In which country was Adolf Hitler born

A) Germany

B) Hungary

C) Austria

D) Switzerland

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29. Who was responsible for the infamous assination attempt on then President Reagan?

A) Lee Harvey Oswald

B) John Hinkley Jr.

C) Arthur Bremer

D) Mark David Chapman

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30. Who was President of the USA from 1953 till 1961?

A) Dwight D. Eisenhower

B) Harry S. Truman

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Richard Nixon

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31. Who in 1988 became the first elected female prime minister in an Islamic country ?

A) Indira Gandhi

B) Khaleda Zia

C) Golda Meir

D) Benazir Bhutto

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32. What country was ruled by Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge party?

A) Vietnam

B) Laos

C) Thailand

D) Cambodia (Kampuchea)

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33. How Old Was James Dean When He Died

A) 23

B) 25

C) 24

D) 26

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34. Who was Margaret Thatcher?

A) Queen of the United Kingdom

B) Prime Minister of Great Britan

C) President of the United States

D) Prime Minister of Canada

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35. In which year was the Berlin Wall constructed?

A) 1959

B) 1963

C) 1989

D) 1961

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36. The world was declared safe from which virus in 1979, after it had killed more than 1 billion people?

A) Polio

B) Smallpox

C) Measles

D) Influenza

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37. What Was The Duchess Of Windsor's Name Before She Married The Duke?

A) Bessie Wallis Warfield

B) Wallis Warfield

C) Wallace Simpson

D) Wallis Warfield-Simpson

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38. In 1959 Who Established A Communist Government In Cuba

A) Che Guevara

B) Camilo Cienfuegos

C) Fidel Castro

D) Raul Castro

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39. Who died three days before Groucho Marx?

A) John Wayne

B) Marilyn Monroe

C) Jim Morrison

D) Elvis Presley

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40. What was the name of the first nuclear powered submarine?

A) Nautilus

B) Triton

C) Ohio

D) Seawolf

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41. Who Was Assassinated By Two Sikh Bodyguards

A) Indiri Gandhi

B) Rajiv Gandhi

C) Mahatma Gandhi

D) Benazir Bhutto

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42. What Was The Nickname Of The Assassin Carlos Martinez

A) The Jackal

B) The Ghost

C) The Shadow

D) The Falcon

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43. This man was Time magazine's 1938 "Man of the Year"

A) Benito Mussolini

B) Winston Churchill

C) Adolf hitler

D) Franklin D. Roosevelt

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44. Which Nobel Prize Winner Wrote (A History Of The English Speaking Peoples)

A) George Orwell

B) James Joyce

C) Virginia Woolf

D) Winston Churchill

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