World History Quiz

World History Quiz

Difficulty : Medium-Easy Get 7/10 correct to pass the quiz

Question 1 of 10

Who was Sir Winston Churchill?

Question 2 of 10

Who formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957?

Question 3 of 10

What were the series of wars by European Christians to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims?

Question 4 of 10

Which currency came about following the 1992 signing of the Maastricht Treaty?

Question 5 of 10

What was the name of the huge German battleship that was destroyed in 1941, just 11 days after leaving harbor to harass supply convoys in the Atlantic?

Question 6 of 10

What was the name of the medieval fortress and prison located in the centre of Paris that was stormed by revolutionaries on 14 July 1789?

Question 7 of 10

What famous person said: "Write drunk; edit sober"?

Question 8 of 10

From which European land did the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus set sail, dreaming of new worlds and possibly the world’s first all-you-can-eat buffet?

Question 9 of 10

Which item for children, packaged in a yellow and green box, first went on sale in 1903?

Question 10 of 10

In 2013, Magnus Carlsen became the all-time highest rated player in what board game?