Question: What empire had its capital at Tenochtitlan?
Answer: Aztec Empire

Question: In what war was Washington D.C. burned?
Answer: War of 1812

Question: Who was the most notorious member of the Ba'ath Party?
Answer: Saddam Hussein

Question: What English King fought in the Crusades and battled against Saladin?
Answer: Richard the Lionheart

Question: What creature was used for the medical treatment of bloodletting?
Answer: Leeches

Question: What plant, imported from the New World, changed the face of Italian cooking?
Answer: Tomato

Question: What fur-trading company, founded in 1670, once owned about 1/3rd of Canada's land?
Answer: Hudson's Bay Company

Question: What was the state religion of the Persian empires?
Answer: Zoroastrianism

Question: What type of craft was the Hindenburg?
Answer: Zeppelin

Question: Who famously wore a pink Chanel suit and matching pillbox hat?
Answer: Jackie Kennedy

Question: What country did Italy invade in 1935?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: Who was killed in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914?
Answer: Franz Ferdinand

Question: What German kingdom was ruled by Ludwig II, builder of the famous Neuschwanstein castle?
Answer: Bavaria

Question: What country was personally owned (and abused) by King Leopold of Belgium?
Answer: Congo

Question: What group, established after WWI, was a failed predecessor to the United Nations?
Answer: League of Nations

Question: What industrialist became the world's first billionaire - thanks to his monopoly on the US oil industry?
Answer: John D. Rockefeller

Question: What was the Democratic Republic of the Congo called from 1971-1997?
Answer: Zaire

Question: What Italian adventurer wrote about his 24 year journey from Venice to China and back?
Answer: Marco Polo

Question: What crime was Al Capone convicted of in 1931?
Answer: Tax Evasion

Question: The words "tsar" and "kaiser" are derived from what Latin word?
Answer: Caesar

Question: What Mexican general redistributed land to the poor and raided the U.S.?
Answer: Pancho Villa

Question: From which empire did Greece gain its independece, in 1830?
Answer: Ottoman Empire

Question: What volcano destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum?
Answer: Mount Vesuvius

Question: What Greek genius said "Eureka" in the bathtub and is said to have invented a death ray?
Answer: Archimedes

Question: What was the primary language of the Byzantine Empire?
Answer: Greek

Question: What country was led by Haile Selassie?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: And what religious movement views Haile Selassie as the Second Coming of Jesus?
Answer: Rastafarian

Question: In what city was Abraham Zapruder living on November 22, 1963?
Answer: Dallas

Question: Henry VIII suffered a leg injury participating in what sport?
Answer: Jousting

Question: What empire, based in Cusco, once controlled much of the Andes?
Answer: Inca Empire

Question: What country imported an estimated four million slaves before finally banning slavery in 1888?
Answer: Brazil

Question: Who invented the printing press in Europe?
Answer: Johannes Gutenberg

Question: Who sailed around the world on the Golden Hind?
Answer: Sir Francis Drake

Question: What island chain did Charles Darwin famously visit, inspiring his theory of natural selection?
Answer: Galápagos Islands

Question: What nation was ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar II?
Answer: Babylon

Question: Who said "honey, I forgot to duck" after being shot in 1981?
Answer: Ronald Reagan

Question: What Christian city was sacked during the Fourth Crusade?
Answer: Constantinople

Question: Who commissioned the Domesday Book to survey his conquests?
Answer: William the Conqueror

Question: What city was led by a doge?
Answer: Venice

Question: What island chain did Captain Cook discover before being killed by the people who already lived there?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Answer: Michelangelo

Question: What "plot" was Guy Fawkes involved in?
Answer: The Gunpowder Plot

Question: What was the first name of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first lady?
Answer: Eleanor

Question: What crop was "king" in the antebellum U.S. South?
Answer: Cotton

Question: In what modern-day country were the oldest human remains found?
Answer: Ethiopia

Question: What city had a liberal "spring" in 1968 that was crushed by Soviet tanks?
Answer: Prague

Question: In the 1700's what did men commonly wear that was powdered and white?
Answer: Wig

Question: Who was the U.S. President during WWI?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson

Question: Who is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov better know as?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Question: In what theater was Abraham Lincoln shot?
Answer: Ford's Theatre

Question: What country still denies its slaughter of over a million Armenians that happened in 1915?
Answer: Turkey

Question: Thebes and Memphis were once capitals of what empire?
Answer: Egypt

Question: Who "invented" the hang glider, parachute, and diving suit?
Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Question: Who sent a telegram from Kitty Hawk in 1903?
Answer: Orville Wright

Question: What Puritanical English ruler banned Christmas?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: What secret society traces its origins to Medieval stone workers?
Answer: Freemasons

Question: What war was depicted in Picasso's painting "Guernica"?
Answer: Spanish Civil War

Question: What Russian empress had affairs with many men?
Answer: Catherine the Great

Question: How many pence were in a pound prior to 1971?
Answer: 240

Question: Hippodromes and Circuses were arenas for what sport?
Answer: Chariot Racing

Question: Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII?
Answer: Dwight Eisenhower

Question: What famous train ran between Paris and Istanbul?
Answer: Orient Express

Question: Who is said to have committed suicide via an asp bite?
Answer: Cleopatra

Question: Who was Louis XVI's wife?
Answer: Marie Antoinette

Question: In what city did Muhammad die?
Answer: Medina

Question: What paper-like writing material was used by the ancient Egyptians?
Answer: Papyrus

Question: On what famous statue is it written "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"?
Answer: The Statue of Liberty

Question: In what country is chess thought to have originated?
Answer: India

Question: What ancient language was the first to develop a sound-based alphabet?
Answer: Phoenician

Question: What Russian princess, murdered in 1918, did many imposters claim to be?
Answer: Anastasia

Question: What name is given to the Japanese suicide pilots of WWII?
Answer: Kamikaze

Question: What was the last name of power couple Eva and Juan?
Answer: Perón

Question: What African-American athlete defied Hitler's theories of racial superiority by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics?
Answer: Jesse Owens

Question: Which English king was beheaded?
Answer: King Charles I

Question: In what city did Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier have a "thrilling" fight?
Answer: Manila

Question: What became the 50th U.S. state in 1959?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Whose advisors included Sir Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey, and Thomas Cromwell?
Answer: King Henry VIII

Question: On what ship did English sailors mutiny against Captain Bligh?
Answer: HMS Bounty

Question: What started on October 29, 1929 and lasted for a decade?
Answer: Great Depression

Question: What name is given to the ancient region in the area of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Answer: Mesopotamia

Question: On what Pacific island did islanders build giant statues called moai?
Answer: Easter Island

Question: What fermented food product was called "liberty cabbage" during WWI?
Answer: Sauerkraut

Question: What figurative barrier separated democratic and communist Europe?
Answer: Iron Curtain

Question: What country was once led by military leaders called shoguns?
Answer: Japan

Question: In which modern-day country was the Anglo-Boer war fought?
Answer: South Africa