1. In which year is the Western Roman Empire traditionally said to have fallen?A 410B 455C 476D 493
2. Who was the first Roman emperor?A Julius CaesarB AugustusC TiberiusD Nero
3. Which treaty made peace between the Allies and Germany after the First World War?A VersaillesB TrianonC Saint-GermainD Sèvres
4. Which English king sealed Magna Carta in 1215?A Henry IIB Richard IC Henry IIID John
5. In which year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks?A 1389B 1453C 1492D 1517
6. Which Chinese dynasty built most of the Great Wall as it survives today?A QinB HanC TangD Ming
7. Who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?A Nikita KhrushchevB Joseph StalinC Leonid BrezhnevD Georgy Malenkov
8. At which battle in 1805 did Napoleon defeat the armies of Austria and Russia?A JenaB WagramC AusterlitzD Borodino
9. Which US president made the Louisiana Purchase?A John AdamsB Thomas JeffersonC James MadisonD James Monroe
10. In which decade did the Black Death reach Europe?A 1240sB 1290sC 1340sD 1390s
11. Who was the last tsar of Russia?A Alexander IIB Alexander IIIC Nicholas ID Nicholas II
12. Which war was ended by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?A Thirty Years' WarB Hundred Years' WarC War of the Spanish SuccessionD Seven Years' War
13. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?A Richard IIIB Henry VIIC Henry VIIID Edward IV
14. Atahualpa was the last independent ruler of which empire?A AztecB MayaC IncaD Toltec
15. In which year was the Berlin Wall built?A 1949B 1953C 1961D 1968
16. Who was British prime minister at the outbreak of the First World War?A H.H. AsquithB David Lloyd GeorgeC Arthur BalfourD Andrew Bonar Law
17. Who was the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt?A NefertitiB HatshepsutC Berenice IVD Cleopatra VII
18. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 took place in which country?A ChinaB JapanC KoreaD Siam
19. Which explorer became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas, in 1513?A Vasco Núñez de BalboaB Hernán CortésC Francisco PizarroD Ferdinand Magellan
20. Which Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants to invade Italy?A Hamilcar BarcaB HasdrubalC HannibalD Mago
ANSWERS
1. C) 476
In 476, the boy emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by Odoacer. Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410 and by the Vandals in 455.
2. B) Augustus
Julius Caesar was dictator but never emperor. Augustus, his adopted heir, ruled from 27 BC.
3. A) Versailles
The other three were the treaties with Hungary (Trianon), Austria (Saint-Germain) and the Ottoman Empire (Sèvres).
4. D) John
5. B) 1453
6. D) Ming
The first emperor of the Qin dynasty joined up earlier walls in the 3rd century BC, but little of that survives.
7. A) Nikita Khrushchev
8. C) Austerlitz
It is also called the Battle of the Three Emperors.
9. B) Thomas Jefferson
10. C) 1340s
The plague reached Sicily in 1347 and England in 1348.
11. D) Nicholas II
12. A) Thirty Years' War
13. B) Henry VII
He won the crown by defeating Richard III at Bosworth in 1485.
14. C) Inca
15. C) 1961
16. A) H.H. Asquith
Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916.
17. D) Cleopatra VII
Her young son Caesarion was briefly her nominal successor in 30 BC before the Romans had him killed. Nefertiti and Hatshepsut lived more than a thousand years earlier.
18. B) Japan
19. A) Vasco Núñez de Balboa
He saw it from a peak in what is now Panama. Magellan later gave the ocean its name.
20. C) Hannibal
Hamilcar was his father, and Hasdrubal and Mago were his brothers.
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