Which Dutch explorer first sighted Tasmania in 1642?
Answer
Abel Tasman
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Spanish conquistador founded the city of Lima in 1535?
Answer
Francisco Pizarro
What object discovered in Babylon is often called the first charter of human rights?
Answer
Cyrus Cylinder
How long (in kilometers) was the Achaemenid Royal Road from Susa to Sardis?
Answer
2,700 kilometers
Which Sassanid king was known as 'the Just'?
Answer
Khosrow I
What is the name of the Persian festival of fire celebrated on the last Wednesday of the year?
Answer
Chaharshanbe Suri
In what year did the Sassanid Empire fall?
Answer
651 AD
What was the title of Charles Darwin's 1880 book on plant movement?
Answer
The Power of Movement in Plants
What was the name of the new royal dynasty after the Norman Conquest?
Answer
House of Normandy
What tactic involving a pretended retreat did the Normans use at Hastings?
Answer
feigned flight
Which two brothers of Harold Godwinson were killed at the Battle of Hastings?
Answer
Gyrth and Leofwine
How long after landing did the Apollo 11 moonwalk begin?
Answer
6 hours, 39 minutes
Which launch pad was used for Apollo 11?
Answer
Launch Complex 39A
How many people watched the Apollo 11 moonwalk live on TV?
Answer
600 million
What is Australia's largest lake when full?
Answer
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
Which East African lake is the world's largest permanent desert lake?
Answer
Lake Turkana
Who built the first successful internal combustion engine?
Answer
Étienne Lenoir
Who invented the safety elevator?
Answer
Elisha Otis
Who invented the canning process for food preservation?
Answer
Nicolas Appert
Who invented the first screw-cutting lathe?
Answer
Henry Maudslay
In which battle in 1812 did Napoleon fight the largest single-day engagement of the Russian campaign?
Answer
Battle of Borodino
What was the name of Napoleon's blockade against British trade, established in 1806?
Answer
Continental System
What law did Lincoln sign in 1863 that created a national banking system?
Answer
National Banking Act of 1863
Which battalion did Winston Churchill command during World War I?
Answer
6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Which Australian battle in August 1966 was fought in a rubber plantation near Long Tan?
Answer
Battle of Long Tan
What 1967 operation targeted the Iron Triangle area near Saigon?
Answer
Operation Cedar Falls
What 1965 US Marine operation was the first major purely American offensive action of the war?
Answer
Operation Starlite
Which Buddhist monk self-immolated in Saigon on June 11, 1963?
Answer
Thich Quang Duc
What was the name of the final North Vietnamese campaign that captured Saigon in 1975?
Answer
Ho Chi Minh Campaign
What was the name of North Vietnam's major conventional offensive launched in 1972?
Answer
Easter Offensive
What was the name of the 1972 US bombing campaign against Hanoi and Haiphong?
Answer
Operation Linebacker II
Which river is the longest river entirely in England?
Answer
River Thames
Which river is the longest in Great Britain?
Answer
River Severn
Which Aztec emperor built the first aqueduct to Tenochtitlan?
Answer
Moctezuma I