History Trivia
Empires rising and falling, revolutions, world wars, inventors and the leaders who changed the map. History is Kenna's deepest category, drawing on questions from right across the bank.
You type the name, date or place yourself, and every answer comes with a fact that adds context — often the part of the story textbooks skip.
- 616questions
- 123easy
- 176medium
- 317hard
What's covered
- Ancient world
- Medieval Europe
- World wars
- Revolutions
- Leaders & rulers
- Cold War
History Trivia: sample questions
Answer in your head, then tap to check. In the game you type it.
- easy
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
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France
It arrived in 350 pieces packed in 214 crates in 1885.
- easy
Who was the French military and political leader defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
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Napoleon
Napoleon was exiled to the remote South Atlantic island of Saint Helena after Waterloo, where he died in 1821.
- medium
In which year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
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1492
Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic but died still believing he had reached the East Indies rather than a new continent.
- medium
Which Portuguese explorer led the expedition that became the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he was killed in the Philippines before it was completed?
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Ferdinand Magellan
Of the roughly 270 men and five ships that set out in 1519, only one ship and 18 survivors limped back to Spain in 1522.
- hard
Which Athenian statesman introduced the democratic reforms around 508 BC that reorganised citizens into ten tribes and is often called the 'father of Athenian democracy'?
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Cleisthenes
He created the practice of ostracism, allowing Athenians to vote annually to exile any citizen deemed a threat to the state for ten years.
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