History Trivia Quiz
Question 1 of 10
Romania and Bulgaria signed the Berlin Pact, meaning that they were allied to Nazi Germany in WWII. Which of these countries did not sign that pact?
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Question 2 of 10
The US might still be in the British Commonwealth. But Hessian colonel Johann Rall was too engrossed in his poker game to bother with the message he'd gotten from Moses Doan, who had spotted what general crossing the Delaware River?
Question 3 of 10
Mfecane refers to the scattering of peoples after the rise of what nation, led by Shaka in the early 1800s?
Question 4 of 10
Rather awkwardly, who took the title of his book The Audacity of Hope from a Jeremiah Wright sermon?
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Question 5 of 10
You are born in 700 BC. Odds are, when will you die?
Question 6 of 10
In 1989, George W Bush put together a group of investors to buy what team, of which he became managing general partner?
Question 7 of 10
What president was fond of quoting the Russian proverb "Doveryay, no proveryay," meaning "Trust, but verify"?
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Question 8 of 10
Found in a glacier in the Tyrolean Alps, my 5000-year-old corpse incited a turf war between Austria and Italy. I was rumored to be gay and may've been murdered. Who am I?
Question 9 of 10
Which president was murdered by a pro-Grant "Stalwart" named Charles Guiteau, who'd been looking for a patronage job as US consul in Paris?
Question 10 of 10
Who was the first VP to become president without immediately succeeding his boss?
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