10 History Questions That Separate the A-Students From Everyone Else

The Hanging Gardens are the one ancient wonder whose existence is most disputed, partly because no mention appears in the records of which civilization said to have built them?

• The Egyptians
• The Babylonians
• The Greeks
• The Persians

Which U.S. president held office during the financial panic of 1837, shortly after taking over from Andrew Jackson?

• John Quincy Adams
• Martin Van Buren
• William Henry Harrison
• James K. Polk

The Renaissance is often said to have been fueled by wealth from which powerful Florentine banking family?

• The Borgia
• The Sforza
• The Medici
• The Visconti

The Inca Empire was conquered in the 1530s by a Spanish expedition led by whom?

• Hernán Cortés
• Francisco Pizarro
• Vasco da Gama
• Ponce de León

The Magna Carta was sealed at which English meadow in 1215?

• Hastings
• Runnymede
• Bosworth
• Agincourt

Which battle in 1942 is widely considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

• Pearl Harbor
• Iwo Jima
• Midway
• Guadalcanal

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which pharaoh?

• Tutankhamun
• Ramesses II
• Khufu
• Thutmose III

The Industrial Revolution's early textile boom was centered in which English region?

• Cornwall
• Lancashire and the surrounding north
• Kent
• East Anglia

Which event in 1956 saw Soviet forces crush an uprising against communist rule in Eastern Europe?

• The Prague Spring
• The Hungarian Revolution
• The Berlin Blockade
• The Solidarity movement

The Declaration of Independence was primarily drafted by which Founding Father?

• John Adams
• Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison