89685 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89685 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What name did Vikings give to the Byzantine emperor’s elite Scandinavian guard?
Answer
Varangian Guard
What was the name of the 16-character runic alphabet used across much of the Viking Age?
Answer
Younger Futhark
Which Viking king ruled England, Denmark and Norway in the early 11th century?
Answer
Cnut the Great
Which Viking Age city in modern Germany was known as Hedeby?
Answer
Haithabu
Which Viking Age battle in 878 led to Alfred the Great’s victory over the Great Heathen Army?
Answer
Battle of Edington
Which executive order did President Harry Truman issue in 1948 to desegregate the U.S. armed forces?
Answer
Executive Order 9981
Which organization did Martin Luther King Jr. lead as president during the major civil-rights campaigns of the 1960s?
Answer
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Which 1955 murder case galvanized national attention after the killing of Emmett Till?
Answer
Emmett Till murder case
What was the name of the elementary school that Ruby Bridges integrated in New Orleans in 1960?
Answer
William Frantz Elementary School
Which Black student became the first to attend the University of Alabama in 1956?
Answer
Autherine Lucy
Which 1963 church bombing in Birmingham killed four Black girls and intensified national support for civil-rights legislation?
Answer
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Which 1968 U.S. law prohibited discrimination in housing sales and rentals?
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Fair Housing Act
Who became the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967?
Answer
Thurgood Marshall
Which bridge did civil-rights marchers cross during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery campaign?
Answer
Edmund Pettus Bridge
Which 1881 event in Arizona Territory became famous as a 30-second gunfight between lawmen and outlaws?
Answer
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
What was the birth name of the frontier outlaw Jesse James?
Answer
Alexander Franklin James
What was Annie Oakley’s birth name, before she became a famous sharpshooter?
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Phoebe Ann Moses
Which 1890 massacre at a South Dakota creek marked the end of major armed Lakota resistance?
Answer
Wounded Knee Massacre
Which 1883 Buffalo Bill production popularized staged frontier battles for audiences?
Answer
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Which 1886 uprising at Haymarket Square influenced the creation of International Workers’ Day?
Answer
Haymarket affair
Which 1883 railroad route was famous for linking Chicago, Kansas City, and the American Southwest?
Answer
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Which 1869 railroad connected Sacramento with Omaha, completing the first transcontinental U.S. railroad?
Answer
First Transcontinental Railroad
Which 1947 memoir by Primo Levi recounts his imprisonment at Auschwitz?
Answer
If This Is a Man
Which 1943 rescue effort transported most of Denmark’s Jewish population to neutral Sweden?
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Rescue of the Danish Jews
Which memorial in Berlin commemorates the approximately six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust?
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Which Nazi decree of February 1933 suspended key civil liberties in Germany?
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Reichstag Fire Decree
Which Jewish resistance fighter led the uprising at the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943?
Answer
Alexander Pechersky
Which 1942 Nazi operation deported Jews from Germany and occupied Europe to ghettos and killing centers?
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Operation Reinhard
Which French fortress did Joan of Arc help capture at the Battle of the Tourelles?
Answer
Les Tourelles
Which English king was reigning when Joan of Arc was executed?
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Henry VI