Q 01/05

In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?

A) 1987

B) 1989

C) 1991

D) 1993

Answer · why

B) 1989

The Berlin Wall fell in 1989: on the evening of 9 November 1989 East Germany announced free crossing, and crowds opened the checkpoints that night.

Q 02/05

Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March in which year?

A) 44 BC

B) 49 BC

C) 58 BC

D) 60 BC

Answer · why

A) 44 BC

Caesar was stabbed on 15 March 44 BC by conspirators led by Brutus and Cassius, three days before he was due to leave for a Parthian campaign.

Q 03/05

Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815 came at which battle?

A) Austerlitz

B) Leipzig

C) Trafalgar

D) Waterloo

Answer · why

D) Waterloo

Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815 in present-day Belgium, saw Wellington and Blücher end Napoleon's Hundred Days; he was exiled to Saint Helena.

Q 04/05

The storming of the Bastille, the flashpoint of the French Revolution, happened in which year?

A) 1765

B) 1776

C) 1789

D) 1799

Answer · why

C) 1789

The Bastille was stormed on 14 July 1789; the fortress held just seven prisoners at the time, four of them forgers.

Q 05/05

Cleopatra was the last active ruler of which Egyptian dynasty?

A) Ptolemaic

B) Seleucid

C) Achaemenid

D) Antigonid

Answer · why

A) Ptolemaic

Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, founded by Ptolemy I, a Macedonian general under Alexander; Plutarch says she was th...