Recent posts under tag history

+1 vote

1 answer

Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had been convicted of what?

posted Mar 4, 2021 by Varuna Magar

+1 vote

1 answer

The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the..........

posted Mar 3, 2021 by Ujjwal Mehra

+1 vote

1 answer

What computer game was invented by Toru Iwatani, first released in Japan in May 1980?

posted Mar 2, 2021 by Manish Tiwari

+1 vote

1 answer

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, what did Kennedy threaten if Khrushchev did not agree to remove missiles.......

posted Mar 2, 2021 by Madhavi Latha

+1 vote

1 answer

What vehicle was sold to John and Maureen Hendricks at the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona..........

posted Mar 1, 2021 by Parampreet Kaur

+1 vote

1 answer

Which German brothers published fairy tales in the 19th century?

posted Mar 1, 2021 by Brijesh Talwar

+1 vote

1 answer

As well as being a spy, for which brief career she was both celebrated and then executed, in what other profession......

posted Feb 23, 2021 by Prachi Sharma

+1 vote

1 answer

What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election.......

posted Feb 23, 2021 by Aman

+1 vote

1 answer

Who composed the 1768 one act comic opera "Bastien und Bastienne"?

posted Feb 22, 2021 by Nimish

+2 votes

1 answer

In 1950, Isabella Kauakea Yau Yung Aiona became the first native Hawai'ian woman to do what?

posted Feb 22, 2021 by Vishal

+1 vote

1 answer

Following the Battle of Borodino, fire raged for four days, destroying an estimated three-quarters of which city?

posted Feb 20, 2021 by Kapil Kapoor

+1 vote

1 answer

The Muslim leader Saladin recaptured which city from the Crusaders in 1187?

posted Feb 20, 2021 by Anamika

+1 vote

1 answer

What relation was Gargantua to Pantagruel in the eponymous 16th century works by François Rabelais?

posted Feb 18, 2021 by Ankur Athari

+1 vote

1 answer

The trial in September 1929 of Myrtle Adkins Bennett, a Kansas City housewife, for the murder of her husband............

posted Feb 18, 2021 by Upma

+1 vote

1 answer

In 1878 the Princess Alice, a steamboat that took day-trippers up and down the Thames, crashed into another ship........

posted Feb 17, 2021 by Pardeep Kohli

+1 vote

1 answer

The "Three Laws of Motion" are named after which scientist who published them in 1687?

posted Feb 16, 2021 by Manish Tiwari

+1 vote

1 answer

What liner was destroyed in Hong Kong harbour while undergoing renovations in 1972?

posted Feb 16, 2021 by Puneet Batra

+1 vote

1 answer

The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg), fought on 17 September 1862, the first major...........

posted Feb 16, 2021 by Madhavi Latha

+1 vote

1 answer

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed for his anti-puritan views during what period of British history?

posted Feb 15, 2021 by Chahat Sharma

+1 vote

1 answer

What group of men was constituted to guard the Roman emperor?

posted Feb 13, 2021 by Karan Joglekar

+1 vote

1 answer

Michelangelo sculpted his statue of David in which century?

posted Feb 12, 2021 by Nikita Sehgal

+1 vote

1 answer

The Edinburgh Agreement, or Decision, in 1992 was reached to what?

posted Feb 12, 2021 by Pushpak Chauhan

+1 vote

1 answer

What name was given to Colleen LaRose, who was accused of conspiring with fighters overseas and pledging................

posted Feb 11, 2021 by Maninder Bath

+1 vote

1 answer

As what were the First Paralympic Games originally known?

posted Feb 10, 2021 by Prachi Sharma

+1 vote

1 answer

Where were the political movers known as bolsheviks and mensheviks active?

posted Feb 10, 2021 by Swati Arora

+1 vote

1 answer

When the Itaipu Dam was filled in 1982 it submerged what spectacular Falls?

posted Feb 10, 2021 by Mridul

+1 vote

1 answer

From 1935 to 1946, the Philippines was officially called The Commonwealth of the Philippines when the country...........

posted Feb 9, 2021 by Udita

+1 vote

1 answer

Where was the volcano which erupted in 1815 in what is considered the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history?

posted Feb 5, 2021 by Anil Chaurasiya

+1 vote

1 answer

31 March, the birthday of César Chávez, is recognised as a holiday......What role did he play in the history of the USA?

posted Feb 5, 2021 by Anshika Utadi

+1 vote

1 answer

The historically significant "Wind of Change" speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan................

posted Feb 5, 2021 by Balwinder

+1 vote

1 answer

Serendib, or Serendip, is one of the former names of which country?

posted Feb 3, 2021 by Vikram Luthra

+1 vote

1 answer

Who did Cleopatra VII, often known now simply as Cleopatra, succeed as Pharaoh of Egypt in 51 BCE?

posted Feb 3, 2021 by Prithvi

+1 vote

1 answer

Which country relinquished Puerto Rico and Cuba to the USA in 1898?

posted Feb 2, 2021 by Ankur Athari

+1 vote

1 answer

In what country were the Battles of the Somme, in 1916 and 1918, fought?

posted Feb 2, 2021 by Varuna Magar

+1 vote

1 answer

Why was Canadian sailor Lawrence Lemieux awarded a Pierre de Coubertin medal in the course of the 1988 Summer Olympics?

posted Jan 30, 2021 by Puneet Batra

+1 vote

1 answer

Where did the short-lived Kronstadt rebellion of 1921 start?

posted Jan 30, 2021 by Sidharth Malhotra

+1 vote

1 answer

In the 1880s Georges Seurat and Paul Signac pioneered what meticulous and precise method of painting?

posted Jan 29, 2021 by Parampreet Kaur

+1 vote

1 answer

To whom was the quote "Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all" first ascribed?

posted Jan 29, 2021 by Brijesh Talwar

+1 vote

1 answer

"Historia Naturalis" was a major work by whom?

posted Jan 29, 2021 by Saif Khanam

+1 vote

1 answer

The continent, or micro-continent, of Zealandia broke away from what land mass an estimated 83–79 million years ago?

posted Jan 28, 2021 by Aastha Joshi

+1 vote

1 answer

There were two events called "The Siege of Sevastopol". They took place in which wars?

posted Jan 28, 2021 by Samardeep Acharya

+1 vote

1 answer

When was the first time the Paralympic Games were held in Russia?

posted Jan 27, 2021 by Simranjeet Singh

+1 vote

1 answer

The president of which country was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk airport in April 2010?

posted Jan 27, 2021 by Anuradha Tabyal

+1 vote

1 answer

In 1745 a type of glass container was invented, dubbed the Leyden (or Leiden) jar, to do what?

posted Jan 26, 2021 by Yogeshwar Thakur

+2 votes

1 answer

In 1896 French engineer and scientist Henri Becquerel identified radioactivity while observing what?

posted Jan 25, 2021 by Prachi Sharma

+1 vote

1 answer

The philosopher Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE) believed in transmigration of souls, led a group..............

posted Jan 22, 2021 by Udita

+1 vote

1 answer

In which modern country was the Aksumite, or Axumite, Empire, which flourished from about the late first................

posted Jan 22, 2021 by Nimish

+1 vote

1 answer

What nationality is retired racing driver Alain Prost?

posted Jan 22, 2021 by Vishal

+1 vote

1 answer

Under whose papacy was the Inquisition introduced into Spain?

posted Jan 22, 2021 by Mohammad

+1 vote

1 answer

How did the results of their athletes in weightlifting at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul affect the Bulgarian........

posted Jan 22, 2021 by Anil Chaurasiya