20 Random Questions About History and the World (Hard)

Hint

Answer

Important Viking age trading center on the island of Björkö in present-day Sweden.

Who's court did Marco Polo visit in China?

Napoleon seized control of the island of Corfu in 1797 from what power.

Spain's most visited monument. Known for it's beautiful Moorish gardens.

St. Mark's Basilica in Venice is famed for it's horses of Saint Mark-Lysippos. These horses where looted by the Venezians during The Fourth Crusade in 1204. What city were they taken from?

In what part of his palace did King Francis I of France hang the Mona Lisa.

Which greek island is an open-air museum, famed for it's archaeological remains.

Which capital city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake in 1755?

Which famed Ruler, born in Sighișoara ruled the kingdom of Wallachia from 1436?

What is the largest monolith statue and monumental sculpture in the world.

Hint

Answer

The Albanian cities Berat and Gjirokastra are famed for buildings of what architectural style?

What former empire's, founded by Songtsen Gampo, capital was Lhasa?

Kyoto's Golden Pagoda was built using gold leaf produced in which Japanese city?

What island is thought to be "The Island of the Lotus Eaters" in Homer's The Odyssey?

Vigo in Spain is famous for it's walls. Who built them?

________ is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.

An area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located on the north coast of Northern Ireland

A collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977.

City with the largest medieval market square in Europe, the Rynek Główny.

The founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who led the Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant.