Questions and Answers

Question 1: What year did Christopher Columbus first arrive in the Americas?

Answer: 1492

Question 2: Who was the longest reigning monarch in British history?

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Question 3: Which historical event is symbolically linked with the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Answer: The end of the Cold War

Question 4: Who is considered the father of the scientific method?

Answer: Francis Bacon

Question 5: What year did the French Revolution begin?

Answer: 1789

Question 6: What was the original capital of the United States before it was moved to Washington, D.C.?

Answer: New York City

Question 7: Which Roman Emperor completed the Colosseum?

Answer: Emperor Titus

Question 8: Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Amelia Earhart

Question 9: What is the oldest known civilization in the world?

Answer: The Sumerian civilization

Question 10: Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question 11: What is the historical period of intellectual and artistic creativity known as the Renaissance?

Answer: 14th to 17th century

Question 12: Who was the Greek historian known as the 'father of history'?

Answer: Herodotus

Question 13: Which explorer first circumnavigated the globe?

Answer: Ferdinand Magellan

Question 14: What is the name of the first successful vaccine, which was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1796?

Answer: Smallpox vaccine

Question 15: Who was the only US President to serve more than two terms?

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 16: Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Sir Alexander Fleming

Question 17: What treaty ended the First World War?

Answer: Treaty of Versailles

Question 18: Who wrote the famous speech "I Have a Dream"?

Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 19: What city was the first to be attacked by an atomic bomb?

Answer: Hiroshima

Question 20: Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

Answer: Marie Curie