History Quiz
Question 1 of 10
What is the name of Matthew Boulton's partner who developed the first steam engine that made use of steam at a pressure just above atmospheric?
Question 2 of 10
What year was Yitzhak Rabin awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Question 3 of 10
Whom did Sitting Bull nickname Watanya Cicilla, meaning Little Sure Shot?
Question 4 of 10
What WWI battle made a hero out of Mustafa Kemal and a skunk out of Winston Churchill, who as first lord of the admiralty had helped plan the fiasco?
Question 5 of 10
In 2008, Irish divers found 4 million Remington bullets aboard what sunken ship, meaning the Germans were right that it was carrying military supplies?
Question 6 of 10
In what year did the 'Battle of the Treasury Islands' occur during World War II?
Question 7 of 10
In which month of 1997 did Princess Diana die?
Question 8 of 10
Which king was known as the 'Sun King'?
Question 9 of 10
The Oni Pa'a ("Stand Firm") movement was an unsuccessful attempt to keep the US from annexing what place?
Question 10 of 10
When Heraclius took over the Byzantine Empire in AD 610, he changed its official language. To what?
Who Sang Quizzes
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Songs from the 60s!
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Who Sang These Songs?
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Who Sang These Songs?
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Who sang these songs?
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Which artist performed these songs?
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Can you tell us who sang these songs?
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History Quizzes
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History Quiz
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Quiz on historical events.
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History Quiz
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History Quiz
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Quiz on History
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History Quiz
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Geography Quizzes
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Geography Quiz
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Geography Quiz
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Geography Quiz
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Geography Quiz
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Music Quizzes
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Alternative Rock Music Quiz
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10 difficult questions about John Denver
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Science Quizzes
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Can you get a better score than a 7?
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Quiz on Science
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Extremely Hard History Quiz, most people score only 3 out of 10.
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We bet you don't know a thing about who invented these things!
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General knowledge quiz