History Questions

Try these 10 questions to test your knowledge of History.

1. In what year was Yugoslavia formed out of the Kingdoms of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?

 
 
 
 
 

2. In what year were London gangland twins Ronald and Reginald Kray found guilty of murder and given life sentences?

 
 
 
 
 

3. In which year was Richard I (Richard The Lionheart) crowned King, aged just 31, following the death of his father, Henry II

 
 
 
 
 

4. Who discovered the sea route to India (1498)?

 
 
 
 
 

5. Who is the only British monarch to have been executed?

 
 
 
 
 

6. Which King succeeded his father to the throne of England but was never crowned and disappeared, believed murdered?

 
 
 
 
 

7. In what year was Operation Desert Storm – an Allied combat operation to drive the invading Iraqi army out of Kuwait?

 
 
 
 
 

8. Who was the last British monarch personally lead his troops on the field?

 
 
 
 
 

9. In what year was the failed Bay of Pigs mission by US forces and Cuban exiles to overthrow the Cuban communist regime of Fidel Castro?

 
 
 
 
 

10. In which year did the first Space Shuttle go into space?

 
 
 
 
 

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