Test your knowledge with 10 quick-fire history questions!
Difficulty : Medium-Easy Get 7/10 correct to pass the quiz
Question 1 of 10
Who was Rembrandt van Rijn?
Question 2 of 10
Newspaper editor Donald Woods fled to London in 1978 to escape the apartheid regime in which country?
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Question 3 of 10
Wjhat was the name of the volcano in Washington that had a massive eruption in 1980?
Question 4 of 10
How did Cleopatra commit suicide, according to legend?
Question 5 of 10
What nationality was the 18th century philanthropist John Howard?
Question 6 of 10
John Paul II was Pope throughout the '90s. Where did he hail from?
Question 7 of 10
Which of these peoples once ruled over Norway?
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Question 8 of 10
Who is credited for developing the first polio vaccine in 1953?
Question 9 of 10
In the the 1948 Marshall Plan, which country gave over 12 billion dollars in aid to help rebuild Western Europe?
Question 10 of 10
Friedrich Engels was one of the authors of "The Communist Manifesto". Who was the other?
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