100 World History Quiz Questions & Answers 2026

Asian History — 20 Questions

1. What dynasty built the Great Wall of China? (Multiple — Qin started it, Ming substantially expanded it)
2. When was Japan's Meiji Restoration? (1868 — modernization revolution)
3. Who founded the Mughal Empire in India? (Babur, 1526)
4. What was the Opium War? (1839–1842 conflict between Britain and China over opium trade)
5. When did India and Pakistan partition? (August 1947)
6. Who was Mao Zedong? (Founder of the People's Republic of China — led the Communist Revolution in 1949)
7. What was the Korean DMZ? (Demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea since the 1953 armistice)
8. Who was Ho Chi Minh? (Vietnamese Communist leader who fought for Vietnam's independence)
9. What was the Khmer Rouge? (Cambodian Communist regime led by Pol Pot — responsible for the killing fields, 1975–1979)
10. What was the Tiananmen Square protest? (1989 Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations — violently suppressed by the government)

African History — 15 Questions

1. Who was the first President of an independent Ghana? (Kwame Nkrumah, 1957)
2. What was apartheid? (South African system of racial segregation 1948–1994)
3. When did the Rwandan genocide occur? (1994 — approximately 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu killed)
4. Who was Haile Selassie? (Emperor of Ethiopia — symbol of African independence)
5. What was the Scramble for Africa? (1880s–1900s European colonization of Africa)
6. Which country was never colonized in Africa? (Ethiopia — and Liberia, which was established by freed American slaves)
7. When did South Africa hold its first democratic elections? (1994 — Nelson Mandela became president)
8. What was the Mau Mau rebellion? (1950s Kenyan uprising against British colonial rule)
9. Who founded the African National Congress? (Originally founded in 1912 — evolved into the anti-apartheid movement)
10. What is the African Union? (Intergovernmental organization of 55 African states — founded 2002)
11. What ancient African kingdom controlled trans-Saharan trade? (Mali Empire — and Ghana and Songhai empires)
12. Who was Shaka Zulu? (Founder and king of the Zulu Kingdom in southern Africa)
13. What was Carthage? (Ancient civilization in North Africa — rival to Rome)
14. When was the Suez Canal opened? (1869)
15. Which country colonized the Congo? (Belgium — under brutal control of King Leopold II)

Americas History — 20 Questions

1. When was the United States Constitution ratified? (1788)
2. Who was Abraham Lincoln? (16th US President who led the Union during the Civil War and abolished slavery)
3. What was Manifest Destiny? (19th-century American belief in westward expansion across the continent)
4. When did the Mexican Revolution occur? (1910–1920)
5. Who was Simón Bolívar? ("The Liberator" — led South American independence movements from Spain)
6. What was the Monroe Doctrine? (1823 US policy opposing European colonization in the Americas)
7. When did Cuba gain independence? (1898 — from Spain after the Spanish-American War)
8. What was the Trail of Tears? (1830s forced relocation of Native Americans — thousands died)
9. When did Brazil gain independence? (September 7, 1822 — from Portugal)
10. What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? (1961 failed CIA-backed attempt to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro)

European History — 25 Questions

1. What was the Thirty Years' War? (1618–1648 European religious and political conflict)
2. Who was Queen Victoria? (British queen 1837–1901 — longest-reigning monarch at the time)
3. What were the Nuremberg Laws? (1935 Nazi antisemitic laws stripping Jews of citizenship)
4. When was NATO founded? (1949)
5. What was the Marshall Plan? (US aid program to rebuild Western Europe after WW2)
6. When did the European Union formally begin? (1993 — Maastricht Treaty)
7. What was the Partition of Poland? (Late 18th century — Poland divided between Russia, Prussia, and Austria)
8. When did Ireland gain independence? (1922 — Irish Free State established)
9. What was the Spanish Civil War? (1936–1939 — Republicans vs. Franco's Nationalists; Franco won)
10. When did the UK vote for Brexit? (June 2016 — formally left the EU on January 31, 2020)