Which leader of the Indian independence movement was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948?
Answer
Mahatma Gandhi
199 1900'S Trivia Questions with Answers
199 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which US space mission first landed humans on the Moon in July 1969?
Answer
Apollo 11
Which amendment to the US Constitution launched Prohibition in 1920 by banning the sale of alcoholic beverages?
Answer
Eighteenth Amendment
Which British Prime Minister returned from Munich in 1938 declaring he had secured 'peace for our time'?
Answer
Neville Chamberlain
Which South African surgeon performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967?
Answer
Christiaan Barnard
Which two scientists described the double helix structure of DNA in 1953?
Answer
Watson and Crick
Who reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside Tenzing Norgay?
Answer
Edmund Hillary
What was the codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?
Answer
Operation Overlord
Which amendment to the US Constitution gave American women the right to vote in 1920?
Answer
Nineteenth Amendment
Who commanded the Allied D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944 and later became US president?
Answer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which conflict between North and South Korea began in 1950?
Answer
Korean War
Who piloted the Spirit of St. Louis on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927?
Answer
Charles Lindbergh
Which country dropped atomic bombs on Japan in 1945?
Answer
United States
Who was the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II?
Answer
Adolf Hitler
In what year did World War II end?
Answer
1945
Who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in 1947?
Answer
Jackie Robinson
Which civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968?
Answer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which US president resigned from office in 1974 following the Watergate scandal?
Answer
Richard Nixon
Who was the last Tsar of Russia, who abdicated in 1917?
Answer
Nicholas II
Which British monarch was crowned at Westminster Abbey in a 1953 coronation?
Answer
Elizabeth II
During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which country had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?
Answer
The Soviet Union
Which general led the Nationalists to victory in the Spanish Civil War, ending in 1939?
Answer
Francisco Franco
Which German city hosted the 1936 Summer Olympic Games?
Answer
Berlin
By what nickname naming a decade is the prosperous 1920s in the United States commonly known?
Answer
The Roaring Twenties