Only 5% Can Pass This World Historical Events Quiz. Can You?

Question 1/62

This event changed the course of political history in the United States

Signing of the Civil Rights Act
Ceremony for first commercial airline flight
Swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the Kennedy assassination

Question 2/62

This major city experienced a series of fires after what major national disaster?

The Great Chicago Fire
The 1905 San Francisco Earthquake
The Dust Bowl

Question 3/62

This German airship caught fire as it was attempting to dock in New Jersey. A total of 36 people were killed.

Sprit of St. Louis
Luftwaffe
The Hindenburg

Question 4/62

What catastrophic financial crisis spread throughout virtually the entire world, affecting the U.S. Canada, much of Europe, South Africa and Asia?

The Great Depression
The Great Recession
The Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 5/62

This 1911 event was the deadliest industrial accident in New York History, and it remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history was well. A total of 143 people died, with some victims as young as 14.

Nixon Nitration Works Disaster
Port Chicago Disaster
Triangle shirtwaist factory fire

Question 6/62

Which Civil Rights leader made history with his speech during the Great March on Washington?

Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Fred Shuttlesworth

Question 7/62

Which event triggered the beginning of World War I?

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Germany invades Poland
United States becomes an isolationist country

Question 8/62

Which space shuttle broke apart in the sky in 1986 due to faulty O-rings?

Intrepid
Challenger
Apollo 12

Question 9/62

What historic event occurred in the United States on January 20, 2009?

Dick Cheney was impeached
Barack Obama, the first African-American president, is inaugurated
The Supreme Court fills its vacancy

Question 10/62

What luxury ship were these people being rescued from?

Carpathia
Californian
Titanic

Question 11/62

What 2001 event forever changed life as we know it in the United States?

September 11 terrorist attacks
Oklahoma City Bombing
David Koresh standoff

Question 12/62

Which British monarch's coronation was the first to be broadcast on television (and was also the first major international event to be televised)?

Princess Grace's Coronation
Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
King Edward's Abdication to King George

Question 13/62

What did the 18th amendment do?

Gave women the right to vote
Required all citizens to pay property taxes
Marked the start of prohibition

Question 14/62

What symbolic gesture marked the end of Communism in East Germany?

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Perestroika
David Hasselhoff's first German concert

Question 15/62

The Bolsheviks killed 18 members of this royal family in order to seize power of Russia.

The Tudors
The Romanovs
The Mecklenburgs

Question 16/62

What major crisis was this picture taken after?

The Rwandan genocide
The Ethiopian famine
The Killing Fields of Cambodia

Question 17/62

In 1970, a group of students gathered to protest the Cambodian campaign in Vietnam. The National Guard was called in, and they proceeded to open fire into the crowd of unarmed students, killing four. Which college did this event take place at?

Kent State
UCLA
Texas A & M

Question 18/62

Which war was known for using trench warfare (which required soldiers to remain dug into trenches for extended periods of time)?

WWII
Vietnam
WWI

Question 19/62

Which group was responsible for the Cambodian Genocide?

The Hutus
Khmer Rouge
Viet Cong

Question 20/62

This engineering project was begun by the French, but was later abandoned due to the high mortality rate among its workers. The United States took over the project in 1904.

Trans-Pacific Railway
The Statue of Liberty
The Panama Canal

Question 21/62

This natural disaster compounded the problems of the Great Depression, and its storms were nicknamed "black blizzards."

The Dust Bowl
The Great Plains fire
Prairie Land Drought

Question 22/62

This tragic historical event took place at the unassuming Lorraine Motel in 1968.

Martin Luther King assassination
Signing of the Civil Rights Act
The Watergate scandal

Question 23/62

Which major WWII battle were these soldiers literally wading into?

Battle of the Bulge
Invasion of Normandy
Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 24/62

Who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama entrance to prevent African-American students from attending classes?

James Earl Ray
Byron De la Beckwith
George Wallace

Question 25/62

This formal-looking scene marked what 20th century event?

Signing of the Japanese constitution
Japan agrees not to adopt a communist government
Japan surrenders at the end of WWII

Question 26/62

This 1969 music festival was held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm

Monterey Pop festival
Newport folk festival
Woodstock music festival

Question 27/62

Which famous outlaws were gunned down in this vehicle by an armed posse?

The James Gang
Bonnie and Clyde's last stand
John Dillinger and his associates

Question 28/62

This event marked the end of the Victorian Era:

India gains independence
Princess Elizabeth ascends to the throne
Queen Victoria's funeral procession

Question 29/62

He made the first solo transatlantic flight

Charles Lindbergh
The Red Baron
Wilbur Wright

Question 30/62

This event pulled the United States into WWII

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Sinking of RMS Lusitania
Sinking of the SS Athenia

Question 31/62

Which pre-WWII invasion was a joint venture between Russia and Germany?

Annexation of Lithuania
Invasion of Poland
Invasion of France

Question 32/62

Which to cities did the United States use the atom bomb on?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Kyoto and Kobe
Tokyo and Osaka

Question 33/62

Which air tragedy resulted in the death of 8 Manchester United football players along with several journalists and team staff members?

Pan Am 103 bombing
Scottish Airlines Malta air disaster
Munich air disaster

Question 34/62

This Arab-Israeli conflict included the capture of the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.

Six-Day War
Yom Kippur War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

Question 35/62

This incident during The Troubles took place in London in 1973. The IRA used car bombs to attack several targets, including which of the following London buildings?

The Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
The Old Bailey

Question 36/62

Which Iranian leader transformed the country into an Islamic Republic upon his return from exile?

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mohammad Khatami
Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 37/62

This dictator was found hiding in a hole in the ground to evade U.S. troops

Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
The Shah of Iran

Question 38/62

President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden are seen here in the White House situation room overseeing what action

Invasion of Iraq
The death of Bin Laden
The Benghazi attacks on the U.S. Embassy

Question 39/62

This airline disaster came to be known as the Lockerbie Bombing

Pan Am flight 103
Malaysian Airlines flight 370
Avianca flight 52

Question 40/62

What catastrophic Irish event led to the deaths of 1 million people and the emigration of another million people to places including the United States, Canada and Australia?

The Troubles
Irish Potato Famine
Irish War of Independence

Question 41/62

This nuclear accident resulted in 400 times more radioactive material being released into the environment than the atomic bomb of Hiroshima. It contaminated 100,000 kilometers of land.

Chernobyl disaster
Fukushima disaster
Three-Mile Island disaster

Question 42/62

This incident is listed as the worst disaster in British sporting history. Nearly 100 people were killed and 766 injured as people were crushed in holding pens outside a Sheffield, England sports arena.

Hillsborough Disaster
Lenin Stadium disaster
2008 Witchcraft Riot

Question 43/62

Who is credited with inventing and flying the world's first successful airplane?

Charles Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
The Wright Brothers

Question 44/62

This oil spill was the largest spill in U.S. waters until the Deepwater Horizon event of 2010.

Lakeview Gusher
Fergana Valley
Exxon Valdez

Question 45/62

During which protests was this iconic image captured?

Tiananmen Square protests
Vietnam War protests
Arab Spring protests

Question 46/62

This grave belongs to which former Eastern European dictator:

Nicolae Ceaușescu
Slobodan Milosevic
Joseph Stalin

Question 47/62

This 1997 funeral procession was held for which member of the royal family?

Princess Diana
Prince Edward
Prince Albert

Question 48/62

This 2004 siege saw more than 1,100 people taken hostage, many of them children. It was carried out by armed Islamic terrorists.

November Paris attacks
Westgate shopping mall attack
Beslan school attack

Question 49/62

This natural disaster took the lives of 230,000 to 280,000 people

Great Chicago fire
Hurricane Katrina
Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

Question 50/62

This image captures the devastation left behind by which hurricane?

Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Camille

Question 51/62

This military operation sought to help Kuwait break free from the grips of Iraqi forces

Operation Desert Shield
Operation Flaming Dart
Operation Uphold Democracy

Question 52/62

This U.S. president was impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.

Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Bill Clinton

Question 53/62

Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan are pictured here making plans for what war?

The Civil War
The Sioux Wars
The War of 1812

Question 54/62

Which city hosted the World's Columbian Exposition celebrating Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World?

Chicago
New York
Boston

Question 55/62

This African-American track and field star upset Hitler at the Berlin Olympics by out-performing his white competitors.

Jesse Owens
Charlie Fonville
Jackie Robinson

Question 56/62

During the Munich Olympics, nine Israeli athletes, coaches and officials were taken hostage by the Black September Palestinian terrorist organization. What is this incident referred to as?

Munich massacre
Six-Day War
Palestinian-German Siege

Question 57/62

In 1993, Columbian forces killed which drug lord from the Medellin Cartel?

Pablo Escobar
Joaquin Guzman
Pablo Acosta Villareal

Question 58/62

In what year did the Beatles first arrive in the U.S.?

1958
1964
1967

Question 59/62

This act of domestic terrorism in Birmingham during the Civil Rights movement was referred to by Martin Luther King as "one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity."

16th Street Church Bombing
Murder of Freedom
Murder of Emmit Till

Question 60/62

This piece of legislation, signed by President Johnson, outlawed discrimination based on color, religion, sex or national origin.

Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Equal Pay Act of 1963

Question 61/62

Acting on the details set forth in the Treaty of Fort Laramie, Native Americans occupied what piece of federal land in 1969?

Angola Prison
Alcatraz Prison
Folsom Prison

Question 62/62

The Iranian hostage crisis began in 1979 with the siege if the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. How did the conflict end?

Iranian hostages were brought back to the U.S.
U.S. Forces declared war on Iran
President Jimmy Carter resigned after failing to negotiate the hostage release