History Trivia Quiz 48

10 questions · 3 multiple choice · 7 number answers · scored out of 1000

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  1. Number answervery hard

    Hint: The Scourge of God

  2. Number answerhard
  3. Multiple choiceeasy
    Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
  4. Number answermedium

    Hint: Jefferson sent them west

  5. Number answervery hard
  6. Multiple choiceeasy
    Which ancient Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock?
  7. Number answervery hard

    Hint: During the Edo period

  8. Number answereasy
  9. Multiple choiceeasy
    What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
  10. Number answerhard

    Hint: AD, fall of Romulus Augustulus

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  1. In what year did Attila the Hun invade the Western Roman Empire?451
  2. In what year was the Rosetta Stone deciphered by Jean-François Champollion?1,822
  3. Which Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?Michelangelo
  4. In what year did the Lewis and Clark expedition begin?1,804
  5. In what year did the Zulu Kingdom defeat the British at the Battle of Isandlwana?1,879
  6. Which ancient Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock?Socrates
  7. How many samurai existed in Japan at the peak?2,000,000
  8. In what year did World War II begin?1,939
  9. What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?Jamestown
  10. In what year did the Roman Empire fall (Western)?476

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