A round of history's best-known landmarks. The year the Second World War ended, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first US president, and the last active ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt.
Every answer is a single clear fact, which makes this a good opening round or a fair one for a younger table.
- In which year did World War II end?
- Who was the first President of the United States?
- Which empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?
- The Berlin Wall fell in which year?
- Which English king had six wives?
- In which city was the first atomic bomb dropped during World War II?
- Cleopatra was the last active ruler of which ancient civilisation?
- In which year did the French Revolution begin?
- Who was the British Prime Minister during most of World War II?
- Which civilization built the Great Pyramids of Giza?
- The Russian Revolution took place in which year?
- Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
- Which empire was founded by Genghis Khan?
- In which year did Christopher Columbus first reach the Americas?
- The 'Cold War' was primarily between the United States and which other country?
- The Magna Carta was signed in the year 1215.
- The Aztec capital Tenochtitlán is the modern-day Mexico City.
- Joan of Arc was Spanish.
- The Vikings reached North America before Christopher Columbus.
- What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims sailed to America in 1620?