Q 01/05

In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?

A) 1987

B) 1989

C) 1991

D) 1993

Answer · why

B) 1989

East Germany announced on the evening of 9 November that its citizens could cross freely, and crowds took 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

The conspirators were led by Brutus and Cassius, and Caesar was due to leave for a Parthian campaign three days later.

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

A Seventh Coalition, with Wellington and Blücher, ended his Hundred Days comeback and sent him to exile on 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 fortress was rumoured to hold many prisoners but actually held just seven, including four 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

The dynasty was founded by Ptolemy I, a Macedonian Greek general who served under Alexander the Great, and Cleopatra was the only one of them known to...