How many republics made up the former Soviet Union?
20
15
10
12
15
Which book was written by Niccolò Machiavelli?
War and Peace
The Prince
The Good Earth
The Once and Future King
15
Simón Bolívar was president of _____
Chile
Argentina
Bolivia
Peru
15
Which Indian president was involved in the struggle for Irish independence?
Gulzarilal Nanda
V.V. Giri
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
S. Radhakrishnan
25
Who was the first U.S. president to appear on television?
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
15
Which one of his six wives is England’s King Henry VIII buried alongside?
Jane Seymour
Anne Boleyn
Anne of Cleves
Katherine Parr
20
How many kings of England have been named Henry?
8
9
11
10
20
Who was the king of England (and the rest of Great Britain) at the time of the American Revolution?
George III
Henry VIII
Edward III
George II
20
Which Egyptian pharaoh believed in the idea of a single god?
Akhenaton
Nefertiti
Cheops
Tutankhamen
20
Manuel Noriega took refuge in whose embassy after the U.S. invasion of Panama City in 1989?
Vatican City
Nicaragua
Cuba
Switzerland
20
On the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, Tamil separatists have been conducting attacks against the Sinhalese majority. What is the name of the country?
Sri Lanka
Madagascar
Cyprus
Seychelles
20
Where was the UN headquarters located prior to them moving to Manhattan's East Side?
Paris, France
San Francisco
Geneva, Switzerland
Long Island, New York
15
At the time of the Declaration of Independence, what was the approximate population of the United States?
2,000,000
20,000,000
200,000
20,000
15
In what year did Leonard Kristensen of Norway lead the first party to land on the mainland of Antarctica?
1795
1895
1845
1945
20
Namibia became a colony of what European nation in 1890, under the name South-West Africa?
