Challenging History Quiz

Challenging History Quiz

Question 1 of 10

What were American college students protesting against in the early seventies?

Question 2 of 10

The Geneva Convention created rules and laws that are suppose to govern what?

Question 3 of 10

What was the name of the French 16th century apothecary and seer who is still famous all over the world for his vague prophecies?

Question 4 of 10

From what language did we get the word "ballet"?

Question 5 of 10

In 1954, the last immigrant to come through Ellis Island was Arne Peterssen, a 48-year-old merchant seaman from Narvik, in what country?

Question 6 of 10

In 1998, the Iranian government lifted its fatwa against which writer?

Question 7 of 10

Who led the South Side Italian gang in the Valentine's Day massacre in the '20s?

Question 8 of 10

Which country did NATO bomb in 1999 to try to end the war in Kosovo?

Question 9 of 10

Contrary to what you've heard, he wasn't a house painter, but was instead a really bad landscape painter. But he did have one testicle. Who?

Question 10 of 10

The "Big Bang" theory, whose name was coined in 1950, has to do with the creation of what?