57 history questions for your home pub quiz
Planning a historical quiz for a celebration with family and friends? We’ve shared a selection of history questions perfect for your next trivia round…
Published: July 21, 2020 at 11:05 AM
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- Anne of Cleves
- Yasuke is known as the first foreign-born samurai in 16th-century Japan
- Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Harriet Tubman served in the America Civil War
- It was the site of a failed attempt by a group of Cuban émigrés, with the backing of the US government, to invade the island in 1961.
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961
- The body of Oliver Cromwell was exhumed in 1661.
- Edward the Elder, son of Alfred and Ealhswith of Mercia
- Edward Teach is better known to history as the notorious 17th-century pirate ‘Blackbeard’
- The Ides of March
- In Thomas Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane (though technically the bakehouse was not located on Pudding Lane proper, but on Fish Yard, a small enclave off Pudding Lane) | Learn more with this guide to the Great Fire of London
- The Waltz
- King William IV (who was Victoria’s uncle)
- Bristol | Read more about the Bristol bus boycott
- Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the USA | Read more about the Hamilton-Burr duel
- The drunkard’s cloak was a form of humiliating punishment used in the past for people who were perceived to have abused alcohol
- Cuneiform, an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC
- Agrippina the Younger
- Sarah Breedlove – who later became known as Madam CJ Walker
- Collecting fossils, she was a palaeontologist
- Edmund Spenser, in his epic poem ‘The Faerie Queene’
- Countess Markievicz
- Corsica
- Utah; Omaha; Gold; Juno and Sword
- Roanoke (and read more about its disappearance)
- The Peterloo Massacre
- The Foo Fighters
- 1913
- A battle formation that consisted of soldiers with long spears placed into circular, tightly packed formations
- Edward the Confessor
- Michael Collins
- He was a witch-finder
- The Peasants' Revolt took place in 1381, in the 14th century
- Malcolm X
- Catherine of Aragon
- The drilling of holes in the head and scraping or cutting of the skull
- 1840s
- Robert the Bruce
- Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
- Philip II of Spain
- Edward I
- Chester A Arthur
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- The west
- Saladin
- Caractacus
- Herbert Hoover
- The Palace of Versailles
- Oxford
- Gavrilo Princip
- Richard III. He was defeated at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 by the army of Henry Tudor
- The Ku Klux Klan
- Roosevelt
- Nicholas II
- The Lincoln Memorial
- George III
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