(This quiz about Alexander III of Macedon (Macedonia) aka Alexander the Great who lived in 4th century BC.)
1) Who of the following philosophers taught Alexander?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Heraclitus
2) What was Bucephalus?
a) Alexander’s cat
b) Alexander’s dog
c) Alexander’s horse
d) Alexander’s parrot
3) How old was Alexander when he became king?
a) 10 years
b) 15 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
1) When was Yuri Andropov born?
a) 31 January 1901
b) 15 June 1914
c) 14 August 1912
d) 21 December 1916
2) Where was Yuri Andropov born?
a) Talinn
b) Nagutskoye
c) Helsinki
d) Warsaw
3) On which river did Yuri Andropov work as a boatman?
a) Thames
b) Danube
c) Rhine
d) Volga
1) To which dynasty did Cleopatra belong?
a) Bonaparte
b) Tudor
c) Stuart
d) Ptolemaic
2) When was Cleopatra born?
a) 100 BC
b) 76 BC
c) 69 BC
d) 58 BC
3) When did Cleopatra become queen for the first time?
a) 98 BC
b) 67 BC
c) 51 BC
d) 44 BC
1) When did World War II begin?
a) 28 June 1914
b) 11 November 1918
c) 3 September 1939
d) 1 June 1941
2) Which country was annexed by Germany and USSR?
a) Czechoslovakia
b) Austria
c) Denmark
d) Poland
3) When did Germany attack USSR?
a) 22 June 1941
b) 14 November 1940
c) 3 December 1939
d) 4 July 1940
1. When was Yohannes IV emperor of Ethiopia?
a) 1815-1830
b) 1855-1868
c) 1848-1856
d) 1872-1889
2. When was Yohannes IV’s original name?
a) Ras Tafari
b) Idris Pasha
c) Kassa Mercha
d) Farokh Hassan
3. Who was Yohannes IV’s mail rival to the throne of Ethiopia?
a) Sahle Miriam
b) Haile Malakot
c) Haile Selassie
d) Bezebeh
4. When did Yohannes IV declare war on Egypt?
a) 14 January 1869
b) 12 May 1855
c) 19 July 1868
d) 23 October 1875
1) Which of the following is not a leap year?
a) 1896
b) 1900
c) 1904
d) 1908
2) Which Indian Prime Minister was born on 29 February?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
c) Morarji Desai
d) Inder Kumar Gujral
3) Who took one day from February and added it to July?
a) Julius Caesar
b) Pompey
c) Sulla
d) Cato
1. When was Catherine of Valois born?
a) 15 March 1406
b) 17 April 1404
c) 12 July 1403
d) 27 October 1401
2. Where was Catherine of Valois born?
a) Paris
b) Reims
c) Nantes
d) Amiens
3. When did Catherine of Valois marry Henry V?
a) 5 February 1421
b) 2 June 1420
c) 31 August 1424
d) 14 November 1422
1. When did Benito Mussolini first become the Prime Minister of Italy?
a) 12 January 1914
b) 3 April 1906
c) 5 August 1918
d) 31 October 1922
2. When was Benito Mussolini born?
a) 9 February 1889
b) 3 May 1901
c) 29 July 1883
d) 31 December 1900
3. Where was Benito Mussolini born?
a) Turin
b) Predappio
c) Verona
d) Bari
1. When did Henry VI become king of England?
a) 9 March 1457
b) 14 May 1411
c) 1 September 1422
d) 5 November 1436
2. When was Henry VI born?
a) 28 January 1407
b) 19 June 1401
c) 4 August 1411
d) 6 December 1421
3. Where was Henry VI born?
a) Lancaster
b) York
c) Windsor
d) Pembroke
Richard II was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the eighth king of the House of Plantagenet, and the final one of the direct line. Richard’s father, Edward the Black Prince, died in 1376, leaving Richard as heir apparent to King Edward III. Upon the death of his…