History tests | Multiple choice History quiz with answers

Multiple Choice Quiz Questions and Answers

1. Which country is still ruled by a king?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Iraq
c) Iran
d) None of these




2. Alexander was the son of Philip II who was king of?
a) Thessaloniki
b) Heraklion
c) Macedonia
d) Corinth




3. The first atomic bomb was dropped on which city?
a) Yokohama
b) Nagasaki
c) Hiroshima
d) Kanazawa

4. The Russian revolution of 1917 began in which city?
a) Petrograd
b) Petrozavodsk
c) Serpukhov
d) Yakutsk

5. First President of South Africa after apartheid was?
a) Thabo Mbeki
b) Nelson Mandela
c) Kgalema Motlanthe
d) Jacob Zuma

6. The assassin of John F. Kennedy was?
a) Lee Harvey Oswald
b) Charles J. Guiteau
c) Leon Czolgosz
d) John Hinckley Jr.

7. Trans-Siberian railway was completed in which year?
a) 1910
b) 1915
c) 1920
d) 1916

8. Who is referred to as the "Desert of Fox"?
a) Gen. McArthur
b) Erwin Rommel
c) Gen. Eisenhower
d) Lord Wavell

9. The "Era of Decolonisation" is called which decade?
a) 1950s
b) 1940s
c) 1960s
d) 1930s

10. System ranks of the binary pattern were developed by?
a) Katyayana
b) Pythagoras
c) Charaka
d) Pingala