10 World History Trivia Quiz Questions & Answers | History Trivia Quiz #2

10 World History Trivia Quiz Questions & Answers | History Trivia Quiz #2

1. Who said, "Man is a Social Animal"?
a) Aristotle
b) Democritus
c) Epicurus
d) Heraclitus

2. In which year was the modern petroleum industry started?
a) 1850
b) 1855
c) 1859
d) 1860

3. Which language was most commonly spoken in Ancient Rome?
a) Italian
b) Latin
c) German
d) Greek

4. Genghis Khan was given the title of emperor in which year?
a) 1203
b) 1204
c) 1205
d) 1206

5. In the early middle ages what was the economic activity of Western Europe?
a) Manufacturing
b) Trading
c) Agriculture
d) Construction

6. Who was the founder of Christian cenobitic monasticism?
a) Paul of Thebes
b) Serapion of Nitria
c) Paul the Simple
d) Pachomius

7. Which playwright is also known as the Bard of Avon?
a) John Webster
b) P. G. Wodehouse
c) Shakespeare
d) T. S. Eliot

8. Alexander the Great died in which city?
a) Aenea
b) Babylon
c) Amydon
d) Antania

9. Japanese Folk Tradition and Ritual, is popularly known as?
a) Buddhism
b) Confucianism
c) Shintoism
d) Judaism

10. Article "The Gospel of Wealth" was written by?
a) Andrew Carnegie
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Herman Melville
d) Walt Whitman