Q 01/05

Which country was the first in the world to give all women the right to vote in national elections?

A) New Zealand

B) Norway

C) Australia

D) Finland

Answer · why

A) New Zealand

New Zealand's 1893 Electoral Act, won by Kate Sheppard's petition campaign, made it the first self-governing country to let all adult women vote; Shep...

Q 02/05

Which US president said 'tear down this wall' in Berlin?

A) Kennedy

B) Reagan

C) Carter

D) Bush

Answer · why

B) Reagan

Ronald Reagan said it at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987, keeping the line although top advisers had urged him to drop it.

Q 03/05

Which English king sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215?

A) Henry II

B) Richard I

C) John

D) Edward I

Answer · why

C) John

King John sealed Magna Carta at Runnymede in June 1215 but soon got Pope Innocent III to annul it, and civil war with the barons followed.

Q 04/05

Who flew the first solo nonstop flight from New York to Paris in 1927?

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Howard Hughes

C) Wiley Post

D) Charles Lindbergh

Answer · why

D) Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis carried a fuel tank ahead of the cockpit, so he had no front windshield and could see ahead only through a per...

Q 05/05

Suleiman the Magnificent was the longest-reigning sultan of which empire?

A) Ottoman

B) Safavid

C) Byzantine

D) Mughal

Answer · why

A) Ottoman

Suleiman ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until he died besieging Szigetvár in Hungary in 1566, and his death was kept secret from his soldiers.