83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of the French heroine who led armies at Orléans?
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Joan of Arc
Which English king won the Battle of Agincourt?
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Henry V
In what year did the Hundred Years' War begin?
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1337
What was the official name of the North Vietnamese military?
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People's Army of Vietnam
What was the name of the US military command in Vietnam from 1962 to 1973?
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Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
Which country, after the US, contributed the most troops to the Vietnam War?
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South Korea
Which university was the site of a 1970 anti-war protest where four students were killed?
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Kent State University
What was the codename for the US evacuation of Saigon in April 1975?
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Operation Frequent Wind
What was the name of the US military draft system during the Vietnam War?
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Selective Service System
Which major offensive in 1968 turned American public opinion against the war?
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Tet Offensive
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam during the war?
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Ho Chi Minh
Which chemical defoliant was widely used by the US military in Vietnam?
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Agent Orange
What was the name of the communist-led rebellion in South Vietnam?
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Viet Cong
Which US president escalated the Vietnam War with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Which fort in Charleston Harbor was bombarded to start the Civil War?
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Fort Sumter
Which three-day 1863 battle had the largest number of casualties in the Civil War?
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Battle of Gettysburg
What proclamation declared enslaved people in Confederate-held areas free from January 1, 1863?
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Emancipation Proclamation
Who was Abraham Lincoln's vice president during his first term?
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Hannibal Hamlin
Which state was admitted to the Union in 1863 after separating from Virginia?
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West Virginia
Which Virginia city became the main Confederate capital in 1861?
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Richmond
Which constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
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Thirteenth Amendment
Which state was the first to secede from the United States in 1860?
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South Carolina
What was the largest Confederate prisoner-of-war camp for Union soldiers?
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Andersonville Prison
Which Confederate raider sank 65 Union merchant ships?
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CSS Alabama
Who commanded the Union Army at the Battle of Gettysburg?
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George G. Meade
How many states seceded from the Union?
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11
Which Union general was nicknamed 'Little Mac'?
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George B. McClellan
What was the name of the Union's strategy to blockade Confederate ports?
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Anaconda Plan
Which Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia before Robert E. Lee?
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Joseph E. Johnston
Which Union general later became the 18th President of the United States?
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Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
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Abraham Lincoln
What document freed slaves in Confederate states?
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Emancipation Proclamation
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
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South Carolina
Which Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox?
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Robert E. Lee
What was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War?
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Battle of Antietam
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the Confederate States?
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Jefferson Davis
What year did the American Civil War begin?
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1861
Which oceanic trench contains the Horizon Deep?
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Tonga Trench
The Mariana Trench is named after which nearby island group?
Answer
Mariana Islands
Which oceanic trench is about 2,550 km long and 69 km wide?
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Mariana Trench