Challenging History Trivia Quiz
Question 1 of 10
Alexander the Great thought that what river, now associated with India, marked the boundary of the universe?
Question 2 of 10
In 1808, in New South Wales, John Macarthur led an officers' coup against what governor, who had had similar labor-management issues aboard the Bounty?
Question 3 of 10
SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, just a couple blocks from what country's equivalent of West Point?
Question 4 of 10
What state did William Penn want to call New Wales?
Question 5 of 10
What Fateh leader was based in Beirut in the 1970s and in Tunisia for much of the 1980s?
Question 6 of 10
In the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide what country at the Bug River?
Question 7 of 10
In which country was a group of radicals known as the Gang of Four put on trial in 1980-81?
Question 8 of 10
In 1983, the Soviets shot down a South Korean airliner that may have been spying on Soviet bases. Sixty-one Americans were killed, including Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald. As it happens, McDonald was a leader of what conspiracy-minded right-wing group?
Question 9 of 10
Based on data from Carl Haub of the Population Reference Bureau, if every one of the Homo sapiens who died still walks the earth as a ghost, what is the world's current haunted population?
Question 10 of 10
In the 1960s, coups deposed the kings of what two neighboring African countries?
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