Easy Fun History and Politics Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Fun and Easy History trivia quiz questions with the answers.

History and Politics.

With which animals did Hannibal cross the Alps to Rome?
A: Elephants.

Which British field marshall received that German surrender in 1945?
A: Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.

Which countries fought the Hundred Years War?
A: England and France.

What important position did Dick Whittington hold from 1397 to 1398?
A: Mayor of London.

In which Indian city did 43 people die in the notorious Black Hole?
A: Calcutta.

Who became president of South Africa in 1994?
A: Nelson Mandela.

Who was the first president of the USA?
A: George Washington.

Where was Napoleon exiled in 1814-15?
A: Elba.

Which Soviet foreign minister gave his name to a petrol bomb?
A:  Molotov.

Of which country did the playwright Vaclave Havel become president in 1989?
A: Czechoslovakia.

What did Pope Pius V do to Elizabeth I and Pope Paul III do to Henry VIII?
A:  Excommunicate.

What were the names of the royal first cousins who married in 1840 and had four sons and five daughters?
A: Victoria and Albert.

Which war was fought over “the Union” and the emancipation of slaves?
A: American Civil War.

Name the 11^th-century survey documented in two volumes and kept in London’s Public Record Office?
A: Domesday Book.

What was built from the Tyne to the Solway in AD 122-126 as the northern border of Roman Britain?
A:  Hadrian’s Wall.

What killed 100,000 of London’s 400,000 population in 1665?
A: The Great Plague.

What was the name of the flag captain who attended mortally wounded Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
A:  Hardy.

Whose exploration of the New World had its quincentenary in 1992?
A: Christopher Columbus.

Which two countries were joined in the Act of Union 1701?
A:  England and Scotland.

Which war made Florence Nightingale famous?
A: Crimean War.

Who became leader of the Russian people after the October Revolution of 1917.
A: Lenin.

Who was queen of England for only nine days?
A: Lady Jane Grey.

Marie Josephe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie became empress of France. By what name was she better known?
A: Empress Josephine.

Who overthrew the Batista regime in Cuba in 1959, at the third attempt?
A: Fidel Castro.

Who was stabbed to death in the Senate house, Rome, on 15 March 44 BC?
A:  Gaius Julius Caesar.

From which French port were 337,131 Allied troops evacuated in May and June 1940?
A: Dunkirk.

Which 17-year-old girl led the French Army that raised the siege of Orleans in 1492?
A: Joan of Arc.

Which queen led a revolt against the Romans and burned London, St. Albans and Colchester?
A: Boudicca/Boadicea.

Who became leader of the Russian people after the October Revolution of 1917?
A: Lenin.

In which war did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place?
A: Crimean War.

Who conquered Greece in 336 at the head of a vast Macedonian army?
A: Alexander the Great.

Which religion was founded by Prince Gautama Siddhartha in the 6^th century BC?
A: Buddhism.

Who was the father of Cleopatra’s son, Ptolemy XV?
A: Julius Caesar.

Who was the first Christian emperor of Rome and founder of Constantinople?
A: Constantine the Great.

Who did Rome fight in the Punic Wars?
A:  Carthage.

Which country did Xerxes rule?
A: Persia.

Which temple stands on the Acropolis in Athens?
A:  Parthenon.

Which Scottish queen was executed in 1587?
A: Mary, Queen of Scots.

Who was the king of Egypt from 1936 to 1952, when he abdicated?
A: Farouk.

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