HISTORY

Question 1

Which war 1628-1631, a peripheral part of the Thirty Years War, was caused by the extinction to the male line of the House of Gonzaga?

Answer 1

War of Mantuan Succession

Question 2

Which 955 AD battle was a decisive victory for King Otto I of East Francia, repulsing invading Hungarian forces and denying them a foothold in Western Europe?

Answer 2

LECHFIELD

Question 3

A site of pilgrimage for Italian fascists, which town in Emilia Romagna was the site of both the birth and burial of Benito Mussolini?

Answer 3

PREDAPPIO

Question 4

Which Ethiopian emperor ruled from 1632-1667 and is credited with founding the city of Gondar?

Answer 4

FASILIDES

Question 5

Which battle, well known to trivia fans, is thought to be the last major battle in world history where all armies were under the personal command of their monarch?

Answer 5

solferino

Question 6

In 1998, which then Brazilian president defeated Lula da Silva in a general election to become the first Brazilian president to be successfully re-elected?

Answer 6

CARDOSO

Question 7

Which long spear/ pike averaging 4-6 metres, was introduced by Philip II of Macedon to replace his armies’ previous weapon the dory?

Answer 7

SARISSA

Question 8

What word for French Hugenots in the Cevennes region of France, was given to a revolt lasting from 1702 to 1715, when French hugenots fought back against persecution?

Answer 8

CAMISARD

Question 9

In 1981, who became Norway’s first female prime minister and served three terms between 1981 and 1996?

Answer 9

GRO HARLEM BRUNTLAND

Question 10

Which first name and surname links, 1. A close associate of Peter the Great who was the de facto leader of Russia for two years 2. The incompetent commander of the Russian army at the battles of Alma and Inkerman.

Answer 10

Alexander MENSHIKOV

Question 11

Which 1769 battle, named after a Corsican bridge, ended Corsican resistance against French annexation, with Corsican leader Pascal Paoli going into exile in Britain

Answer 11

PONTE NOVO

Question 12

Nicknamed “The Black Devil” by his adversaries, which WW2 German pilot was the most successful flying ace in history?

Answer 12

ERICH HARTMANN

Question 13

Which small artificial island was built in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634, and acted as the sole direct trading place between Japan and outside traders during the isolationism or sakoku of the Edo period?

Answer 13

DEJIMA

Question 14

The Russian city of Simbirsk, birthplace of Lenin, changed its name to what after Lenin’s death in 1924?

Answer 14

ULYANOVSK

Question 15

Most current historians now believe that the French Revolution ended on 9th November 1799 in a bloodless coup. By what French revolutionary calendar name is this date best known?

Answer 15

18 BRUMAIRE

Question 16

Between 1540 and 1556 which Islamic dynasty of Pashtun origins interrupted the reign of Mughal emperor Humayun?

Answer 16

SUR

Question 17

Disguising herself as a man on Louis de Bouganville’s 1766-1769 expedition, who was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe? She has a mountain range on Pluto named after her.

Answer 17

Jeanne BARE

Question 18

On the death of Theodosius the Great in 395AD, one son inherited the western empire, one son inherited the eastern empire, and Rome would never again be united. Name either son?

Answer 18

HONORIUS RUFINUS

Question 19

In 1973 he changed his first name from Francois to N’Garta. Who was the first president of Chad, ruling till his assassination in a coup d’etat in 1975?

Answer 19

Francois TOMBALBYE

Question 20

The death of which childless Hapsburg monarch of Spain in 1700 led to the War of Spanish succession?

Answer 20

CHARLES 11

Question 21

he 1720 Treaty of the Hague ended which war, the result of King Phillip v of Spain’s ambitions to claim the throne of France?

Answer 21

QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE

Question 22

Who in 2016 became the first female head of state of Estonia?

Answer 22

Kersti KALJULAID

Question 23

Which 1279 battle is seen as the last stand of China’s Song dynasty, who were decisively crushed by the invading Mongol Yuan dynasty?

Answer 23

YAMEN

Question 24

What was the name of the Hungarian soldier and revolutionary, known for his collaborations with Garibaldi, who in later years became the co-engineer of the Corinth Canal?

Answer 24

istvan TURR

Question 25

Founded in 509 BC and dissolved in 27 BC, what name was given to the senatorial majority of the Roman republic which sought to suppress the power of the Tribune of the Plebs, and serve the best interests of the aristocracY

Answer 25

OPTIMATES

Question 26

The 1868-89 Battle of Hakodate, was the final decisive battle of which war, which saw the end of the tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji restoration?

Answer 26

BOSHIN WAR

Question 27

Which man, murdered in 1919, co-founded the Spartacist League with Rosa Luxemburg?

Answer 27

Karl LIEBENEKHT

Question 28

The Yasser, was a secret and wide ranging code of law established by which historical figure?

Answer 28

GENGHIS KHAN

Question 29

Ruling from 1661-1722, and giving his name to the standard Chinese language dictionary of the 18th and 19th centuries, who was the longest reigning Chinese emperor

Answer 29

KANGXI

Question 30

Which French born King of Sicily was ousted by the 1282 rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers?

Answer 30

CHARLES i

Question 31

As depicted in the film Selma, the police killing of which civil rights activist in February 1965 in Marion, Alabama, led to the initiation of the first Selma to Montgomery march a month later?

Answer 31

Jimmie Lee JACKSON

Question 32

Reigning from 1918 to 1965, who was the only female monarch of Tonga?

Answer 32

SALOTE

Question 33

Which town in northern DRC was the ancestral home and residence of Mobutu, who would later turn it into a luxurious town containing two palaces and the largest nuclear bunker in Africa and earning it the nickname “Versailles of the Jungle”?

Answer 33

GBADOLITE

Question 34

Not the most famous battle of this name, which 274ad battle saw a victory for Aurelian, and the end of the independent Gallic empire?

Answer 34

CHALONS