Q 01/05

Which room at Versailles saw both the German Empire proclaimed in 1871 and the 1919 peace treaty signed?

A) The Royal Chapel

B) The Hall of Mirrors

C) The Hall of Battles

D) The Royal Opera

Answer · why

B) The Hall of Mirrors

The Hall of Mirrors was picked on purpose by French premier Georges Clemenceau, so Germany's defeat was sealed in the very room where its empire had b...

Q 02/05

Which carmaker did the Nazi German Labour Front found in 1937 to build a family car designed by Ferdinand Porsche?

A) Volkswagen

B) Auto Union

C) Daimler-Benz

D) Borgward

Answer · why

A) Volkswagen

Volkswagen sold its car through a savings-stamp scheme, but war came first: the factory switched to military vehicles and none of the savers ever rece...

Q 03/05

Which taxed commodity did Mahatma Gandhi march 240 miles to the Arabian Sea to make illegally in 1930?

A) Tea

B) Sugar

C) Indigo

D) Salt

Answer · why

D) Salt

Salt was a British monopoly that Indians were forbidden to make for themselves. Gandhi's 24-day walk to Dandi set off a wave of civil disobedience, an...

Q 04/05

What name was given to the illegal bars that sold alcohol in American cities during Prohibition from 1920 to 1933?

A) Honky-tonks

B) Juke joints

C) Speakeasies

D) Roadhouses

Answer · why

C) Speakeasies

Speakeasies got their name from the habit of speaking quietly about them so that police and neighbours would not hear. They were also known as blind p...

Q 05/05

Which twice-divorced American socialite did King Edward VIII give up the British throne to marry in December 1936?

A) Wallis Simpson

B) Thelma Furness

C) Freda Dudley Ward

D) Emerald Cunard

Answer · why

A) Wallis Simpson

Wallis Simpson could not become queen because the king headed a Church of England that barred remarriage while a former spouse was alive. The couple b...