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Timeline of the 20th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1901 until 2000?
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1. How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded every year since 1901?
Four ✓
Seven ✓
Six ✓
Five ✓
2. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China in 1908?
18 ✓
2 ✓
12 ✓
5 ✓
3. Which explorer is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909?
Sir James Clark Ross ✓
Jules Dumont ✓
Robert Peary ✓
Sir Ernest Shackleton ✓
4. What famous ocean liner was christened in Belfast in 1911?
Queen Mary ✓
Lusitania ✓
Empress of Britain ✓
Titanic ✓
5. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole in 1911?
Abel Tasman ✓
Louis Antoine de Bougainville ✓
Roald Amundsen ✓
Robert Scott ✓
6. Which physicist first identified the atomic nucleus in 1911?
Niels Bohr ✓
Ernest Rutherford ✓
Erwin Schrödinger ✓
Albert Einstein ✓
7. How many conflicts were there during Balkan wars that started in 1912?
Four ✓
Three ✓
Two ✓
Five ✓
8. In which city was archduke Franz Ferdinand killed, whose assassination was the immediate cause of World War I?
Sarajevo ✓
Belgrade ✓
Vienna ✓
Budapest ✓
9. Who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution that started in 1917?
Vladimir Lenin ✓
Leonid Brezhnev ✓
Joseph Stalin ✓
Leon Trotsky ✓
10. Which pharaoh's tomb was famously discovered by Howard Carter in the early 20th century?
Ramses II ✓
Tutankhamun ✓
Thutmose III ✓
Hatshepsut ✓
11. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Habib Bourguiba ✓
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ✓
Enver Pasha ✓
Gamal Abdel Nasser ✓
12. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Tuesday ✓
Black Friday ✓
Black Sunday ✓
Black Monday ✓
13. When was the first FIFA World Cup hosted?
1934 ✓
1942 ✓
1938 ✓
1930 ✓
14. Which artist painted "Guernica", the painting that helped bringing worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War?
Frida Kahlo ✓
Henri Matisse ✓
Salvador Dali ✓
Pablo Picasso ✓
15. What was the first feature-length animated movie that was released in 1937?
Bambi ✓
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ✓
Jungle Book ✓
Pinocchio ✓
16. The Nazi invasion of what country triggered World War II in Europe in 1939?
Denmark ✓
Poland ✓
France ✓
England ✓
17. Which event in 1941 led the United States to enter World War II?
The German invasion of Poland ✓
The attack on Pearl Harbor ✓
The sinking of Lusitania ✓
The bombing of London ✓
18. What was the first city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in World War II?
Tokyo ✓
Yokohama ✓
Hiroshima ✓
Nagasaki ✓
19. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
Chinese ✓
British ✓
Persian ✓
French ✓
20. What group did Mother Teresa form in 1950 to help the poor and needy?
UNICEF ✓
Missionaries of Charity ✓
Red Cross ✓
Salvation Army ✓
21. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Mount Everest ✓
Mount Blanc ✓
Kilimanjaro ✓
Aconcagua ✓
22. What is the first artificial satellite launched in space in 1957?
Apollo 1 ✓
Soyuz 1 ✓
Sputnik 1 ✓
Explorer 1 ✓
23. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights in 1963?
Washington ✓
Philadelphia ✓
Baltimore ✓
New Orleans ✓
24. What conflict Northern Ireland experienced throughout the second half of the 20th century?
The Troubles ✓
The Scuffles ✓
The Feud ✓
The Difficult Years ✓
25. Who was the pope of Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005?
John Paul II ✓
Pius XII ✓
Benedict XVI ✓
Leo XIII ✓
26. Who fought in undeclared Falkland Islands War in 1982?
Argentina and Great Britain ✓
Great Britain and Brazil ✓
France and Argentina ✓
Brazil and France ✓
27. The Schengen Agreement from 1985 is a treaty that built a Europe without borders. Where is the city of Schengen located?
Austria ✓
Belgium ✓
Luxembourg ✓
Switzerland ✓
28. Which Olympic games were remembered when 11 Israeli athletes were massacred by Palestinian terrorists?
Moscow 1980 ✓
Barcelona 1992 ✓
Los Angles 1984 ✓
Munich 1972 ✓
29. In what present county Chernobyl disaster occurred in 1986?
Belarus ✓
Romania ✓
Ukraine ✓
Armenia ✓
30. What was the name of Nicolae Ceausescu's wife who was executed along with him during the 1989 Romanian Revolution?
Mihaela ✓
Maria ✓
Elena ✓
Diana ✓
31. What worldwide conflict came to an end when Margaret Thatcher was British Prime Minister?
World War I ✓
World War II ✓
Vietnam War ✓
Cold War ✓
32. When did East and West Germany reunite?
1989 ✓
1995 ✓
1990 ✓
1991 ✓
33. Pablo Escobar was a drug lord and the founder of which Colombian cartel?
Cali ✓
Sinaloa ✓
Juarez ✓
Medellin ✓
34. In which city Princess Diana died in car accident in 1997?
London ✓
Amsterdam ✓
Manchester ✓
Paris ✓
35. What was Princess Diana's official title after she married Prince Charles?
Princess of England ✓
Princess of York ✓
Princess of Wales ✓
Princess of Wessex ✓
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nerdalert
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Level 85
Feb 16, 2021
While I think Margaret Thatcher is subjected to a lot of nasty, unwarranted criticism, to say that she ended the Cold War is a little much.
Nenadbs
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Level 53
Feb 27, 2021
Thanks for comment. I saw that sentence somewhere but you are right, it does not sound good.
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