What was the name of the secret committee that coordinated American foreign policy?
Answer
Committee of Secret Correspondence
16373 Hard Trivia Questions
16373 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Answer
Charles Carroll
In which year was the Stamp Act repealed?
Answer
1766
Which British colony in Africa was originally a private possession of Cecil Rhodes?
Answer
Southern Rhodesia
Which British explorer was the first to cross Australia from south to north?
Answer
John McDouall Stuart
Which British prime minister was the first to be born in a colony?
Answer
Andrew Bonar Law
Which battle in 1898 marked the end of the Mahdist state in Sudan?
Answer
Battle of Omdurman
Which territory was administered by the British South Africa Company until 1923?
Answer
Southern Rhodesia
Which British island colony in the Mediterranean was ceded to Greece in 1864?
Answer
Ionian Islands
Which island was a British penal colony known as 'the hell of the Pacific'?
Answer
Norfolk Island
Which act in 1784 reorganized the control of British India?
Answer
Pitt's India Act
Which island of the British Indian Ocean Territory is leased to the US?
Answer
Diego Garcia
Which fort in Calcutta was the site of the Black Hole incident?
Answer
Fort William
Which British administrator was known as 'Clemency Canning'?
Answer
Lord Canning
What was the name of the 1919 massacre in Amritsar that fueled Indian independence?
Answer
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Which treaty granted Britain control of Cyprus in 1878?
Answer
Cyprus Convention
How many square miles did the British Empire cover at its peak in 1922?
Answer
13.7 million square miles
Which Sassanid king built the city of Gundishapur?
Answer
Shapur I
What was the name of the Achaemenid postal system?
Answer
Angarium
What is the oldest known Persian carpet, found in a Scythian tomb?
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Pazyryk carpet
What battle in 331 BC ended the Achaemenid Empire?
Answer
Battle of Gaugamela
Who was the last king of the Sassanid Empire?
Answer
Yazdegerd III
What was the capital of the Sassanid Empire?
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Ctesiphon
In what year did Cyrus the Great conquer Babylon?
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539 BC
Which Byzantine emperor signed the Union of Lyons in 1274 to reunite with the Catholic Church?
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Michael VIII Palaiologos
Which dynasty ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1261 until its fall in 1453?
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Palaiologos dynasty
Which ecumenical council in 381 refined the Nicene Creed and is recognized by the Byzantine Church?
Answer
First Council of Constantinople
Which Byzantine emperor oversaw the creation of the Theodosian Code in 438?
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Theodosius II
Which Byzantine autonomous region in the Peloponnese lasted until 1460?
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Despotate of the Morea
Which Byzantine emperor was the last iconoclast and reigned 829-842?
Answer
Theophilos
Which 562 treaty ended the Lazic War between Byzantium and Sasanian Persia?
Answer
Fifty-Year Peace Treaty
Which Byzantine emperor was deposed in 695 and restored to the throne in 705?
Answer
Justinian II
Which emperor issued the Ecloga law code in 726?
Answer
Leo III
Who was the first Tibetan Buddhist imperial preceptor of the Yuan dynasty?
Answer
Drogön Chögyal Phagpa
Who was the Nestorian Christian monk who traveled from the Mongol Empire to Europe?
Answer
Rabban Bar Sauma