199 1900'S Trivia Questions with Answers
199 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who delivered the famous 'I Have a Dream' speech in Washington in 1963?
Answer
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which British Prime Minister led the United Kingdom through most of World War II?
Answer
Winston Churchill
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon, in July 1969?
Answer
Neil Armstrong
Which U.S. President was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What peace treaty officially ended World War I in 1919?
Answer
Treaty of Versailles
The 1917 October Revolution brought which political party to power in Russia?
Answer
The Bolsheviks
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, awarded in 1903?
Answer
Marie Curie
What canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans opened in 1914?
Answer
The Panama Canal
Which affordable automobile did Ford begin mass-producing in 1908?
Answer
The Model T
What theory of relativity did Albert Einstein publish in 1905?
Answer
Special relativity
What Russian royal family was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918?
Answer
The Romanovs
What deadly influenza pandemic spread worldwide in 1918?
Answer
Spanish flu
Who became the first man to travel into space in 1961?
Answer
Yuri Gagarin
What wall separating a German city fell in 1989?
Answer
The Berlin Wall
Which two brothers made the first powered airplane flight in 1903?
Answer
The Wright brothers
Who disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937?
Answer
Amelia Earhart
Who did Josef Stalin set out to eliminate in the "great purge" of 1936?
Answer
Political opponents
Which U.S. President died in office in 1945, during World War II?
Answer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Which nation was called Persia until 1935?
Answer
Iran
What was the mission of the Manhattan Project, which was launched in 1941?
Answer
To Build A Nuclear Bomb
What organization founded in 1949 is represented by the acronym NATO?
Answer
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What natural disaster struck the American Midwest in 1930?
Answer
The Dust Bowl
What major event took place in the United States on December 7, 1941?
Answer
Pearl Harbor Bombing
What famous WWII battle between the Germans and Allies began on December 16, 1944?
Answer
Battle Of The Bulge
What famous patriotic song did Francis Scott Key write in 1814?
Answer
The Star-Spangled Banner
What accessory did Zippo Manufacturing Company introduce in 1933?
Answer
Cigarette Lighter
November 11, 1921 marked the first anonymous burial at what famous U.S. cemetery?
Answer
Arlington National Cemetery
In what American metropolis was the Empire State Building completed in 1931?
Answer
New York City
In 1948, what U.S. military practice did President Harry Truman end?
Answer
Racial Segregation
Fiorello LaGuardia was elected mayor of what city in 1933?
Answer
New York