New History Quiz

New History Quiz

Question 1 of 10

What is a ruler with total power over a country?

Question 2 of 10

Who invented the saxophone family?

Question 3 of 10

Inspiring Giuseppe Verdi's 1859 opera Un Ballo in Maschera, what monarch was shot in the back in March 1792 by Jacob Johan Anckarstrom at a midnight masquerade at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm?

Question 4 of 10

In 2014, the United Nations ruled that the Crimean peninsula was part of which country?

Question 5 of 10

The body of which monarch was recently discovered buried underneath a parking lot?

Question 6 of 10

During which War did the 1487 'Battle of Malaga' take place?

Question 7 of 10

What did the word "quisling," after the Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, became a synonym for during and after World War II?

Question 8 of 10

Croatia became the 28th member of which organization in 2013?

Question 9 of 10

Legend has it that which New World resource was stored in Seville's Torre del Oro in Spain?

Question 10 of 10

The Palace of Versailles, just outside of Paris, was built in what century?

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