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Impossible History Quiz
Average Score: 9
41% knows the answer to this question:
"Where was Abraham Lincoln when he was killed?
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"Despite British indifference, money came in from the Ottoman Empire, Calcutta and even the Chocktaw Indians, to relieve what genocide of the Irish?"
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Category: History, Level: Hard
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Average Score: 8
59% knows the answer to this question:
"What regime united the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy) and Luftwaffe (air force) into the Wehrmacht?
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"The earliest hominids made tools from what form of hard quartz, known for producing the sparks that start campfires?"
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You thought history was boring? Take this fun quiz!
Average Score: 6
62% knows the answer to this question:
"Catherine the Great started out as an Enlightenment ruler and ended up as just another autocrat. In what country?
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"Who was Great Britain's longest reigning monarch?"
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Only a true historian can score a 7 out of 10 in this trivia.
Average Score: 8
42% knows the answer to this question:
"Philippe Bunau-Varilla negotiated the treaty by which Panama sold the land for this. As one of Ferdinand De Lesseps' staff, he helped build this. What?
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"Many American POWs spent years at the Hua Lo prison. What was its nickname?"
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Are you a true historian? Take the challenge!
Average Score: 8
41% knows the answer to this question:
"What scandal destroyed Richard Nixon's administration?
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"A weepy Princess Diana told Panorama that "there were three of us in this marriage" with Prince Charles. Who was #3?"
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Impossible History Quiz. Most people can't even get 5 correctly. Can you beat that ?
Average Score: 7
39% knows the answer to this question:
"On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dumped 342 chests of what substance, 45 tons in all, into Boston Harbor?
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"Where were Anne Boleyn and Thomas More executed, having been brought in through a water entrance called Traitor's Gate?"
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10 World History Questions. Most people can't answer them correctly.
Average Score: 6
90% knows the answer to this question:
"In which year was the transistor invented?
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"In which year did Charles Lindbergh fly solo across the Atlantic?"
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Only a true historian can answer these 10 questions correctly.
Average Score: 5
44% knows the answer to this question:
" Which Apollo mission was responsible for the first humans landing on the moon?
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"One of the cradles of civilization was the Fertile Crescent, found at the juncture of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what modern-day country?"
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10 World history questions you probably cannot answer correctly.
Average Score: 5
43% knows the answer to this question:
"Which sea is located in Israel and Jordan?
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"Who led the "Rainbow Coalition" in the 1980's?"
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Ar you a Historian?
Average Score: 6
39% knows the answer to this question:
"Which country's troops withdrew from the Lebanese security zone after 22 years of occupation in 2000?
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"From 1919 to 1931, Britain's Sir Eric Drummond served as the first secretary general of what organization?"
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10 very hard questions about history you probably can't answer correct
Average Score: 6
48% knows the answer to this question:
"What war did Senator John McCain fight in?
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"What was the average life expectancy of an Englishman in the middle ages?"
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Are you a true historian?
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Average Score: 7
80% knows the answer to this question:
"What caused enormous disruption to air travel across Europe between the spring and summer of 2010?
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"Cecil Rhodes lobbied for a "Cape to Cairo" railway that would link what diamond-rich country to the Suez Canal?"
