Question: The Cry of Dolores is regarded as the first event in the fight for independence in the history of what country?
Answer: Mexico

Question: The Cassette Scandal of recent times has proved to be pivotal in shaping the political landscape of what country?
Answer: Ukraine

Question: What political term originates from the interview of a general during the Spanish Civil War who said that as his four groups of troops approached Madrid, another group of supporters inside the city would support him?
Answer: """Fifth column"""

Question: A group of fifteen ships called the Yellow Fleet was trapped in what part of the world from 1967 to 1975, a fall-out of a noted war?
Answer: Suez Canal

Question: How do we better know a list compiled in ancient times by Antipater of Sidon and by an observer identified as Philo of Byzantium?
Answer: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Question: What historic scandal had its roots in security guard Frank Wills discovering a taped latch of a basement door of an office complex?
Answer: Watergate

Question: When in 1862 did the Mexican army claim an unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla immortalizing the day in Mexican history?
Answer: 5th of May

Question: The Guayaquil Conference of July 22, 1822 saw the meeting of which two people regarded as the primary liberators of South America from Spain?
Answer: José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar

Question: What war sparked off by the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and which later merged into WWII is considered the largest Asian war in the 20th century?
Answer: Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Question: Kniefall von Warschau (German for 'Warsaw Genuflection') is a 1970 incident involving which European statesman who paid homage to WWII's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his visit to the city?
Answer: Willy Brandt

Question: What is the common family name of the sisters Ai-ling, Chang-ling and May-ling who had a significant influence on 20th century Chinese history?
Answer: Soong sisters

Question: Talking about which country did the writer V. S. Naipaul write "No civilization was so little equipped to cope with the outside world; no country was so easily raided and plundered, and learned so little from its disasters"?
Answer: India

Question: The founding of the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt by Duke Leopold V in 1194 came about from the ill-gotten gains of whose kidnapping that probably yielded the highest ransom ever?
Answer: Richard the Lionheart

Question: The 1940 book To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson that traces communism refers to the arrival of Lenin at the said railway station in what city?
Answer: St. Petersburg

Question: The Higgins boat which was praised by Eisenhower as a crucial element of the Allied victory on the Western Front was used in what type of operations during WWII?
Answer: Amphibious landings, most notably during the D-Day invasion

Question: A woman named Pompeia was divorced in 62 BC in Rome after she was suspected of a crime despite there being no evidence of her wrongdoing. Whom was she married to?
Answer: Julius Caeser

Question: What European ethnicity marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Golden Spurs (1302) fought in Flanders as its official holiday?
Answer: Flemish

Question: The French military engineer Vauban (1633-1707) who advised Louis XIV on protecting his country's borders was well-known for his skill in constructing what?
Answer: Forts

Question: Signed by three heads of states in the later part of the 20th century, what was the result of the Belavezha Accords?
Answer: Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Question: What event that occurred on the evening of 20 April 1889 at the Gasthof Zum Pommer pub in Braunau-am-Inn, Austria proved to be significant for world history?
Answer: Birth of Adolf Hitler

Question: The Battle of Luding Bridge of 1935 during which a bridge over the Dadu river was secured is often portrayed as a heroic event of what historic operation?
Answer: Long March (China)

Question: What world leader active in the later part of the 20th century refused to have his distinct port-wine stain birthmark removed as he believed it would be perceived as his being more concerned with his appearance than important issues?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: """I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people."" Whose words that preceded a 1973 coup in a South American country?"
Answer: Henry Kissinger

Question: The brave Sophie Scholl who was beheaded in Nazi Germany for distributing pamphlets deriding the regime was part of what 'floral' non-violent movement?
Answer: White Rose movement

Question: What word, also linked to President Kennedy's liking for a Broadway musical, was used for the first time in a 1963 Life magazine article to describe a 60's era?
Answer: 'Camelot'

Question: 700 private boats sailed from Ramsgate in England to what place in France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: Charter 77, a petition by writers and intellectuals demanding basic human rights played a big part in the anti-communist movement in what erstwhile country?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose death in 2009 ended a bloody civil war in Sri Lanka sought to create an independent state for the people of what ethnicity?
Answer: Tamil

Question: The aircraft carriers Kaga, Akagi, Hiryu, and Soryu were sunk in which decisive battle of the Pacific Theater of WWII?
Answer: Battle of Midway (1942)

Question: The 1904 St. Louis Olympics were held in concurrence with the delayed centenary celebrations of what important American milestone?
Answer: Louisiana purchase (1803)

Question: The magnificent Ishtar Gate constructed around 575 BC served as one of the entrances to what ancient city?
Answer: Babylon

Question: After a history changing battle in 1532 in which 168 men routed 7000 of their enemies, who said to whom "... Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian."?
Answer: Francisco Pizarro to Atahualpa, after the Battle of Cajamarca

Question: Convoy SC-7 consisting of 35 merchant ships was the first major casuality of a tactic termed Rudeltaktik ('tactics of a pack') notably practiced by what entities during WWII?
Answer: German U-boats

Question: An auto-da-fé was the ritual of public penance of the condemned during what dreaded times?
Answer: Inquisitions, in particular the Spanish or the Portuguese

Question: In 1120 the sinking of what vessel, called the Titanic of the Middle Ages, caused the death of the legitimate heir to the throne of England and led to a period known as the Anarchy?
Answer: White Ship

Question: The ultra left-wing group Red Army Faction associated with the names Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof was active in what country in the later part of the 20th century?
Answer: Germany

Question: Project Gutenberg, the world's oldest digital library started in 1971 with the digitization of what seminal American document? Isn't the answer self-evident?
Answer: Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson

Question: Which European monarch is nicknamed 'Swan King' because of his patronage of Wagner and for his fixation with fairy tale derived constructions?
Answer: Ludwig II (Mad King Ludwig)

Question: Katharina von Bora, a nun who escaped convent life in 1523 by fleeing to Wittenberg hiding among fish barrels was married to which key figure of world history?
Answer: Martin Luther

Question: The Battle of 73 Easting that was described by the Military Channel as 'the last great tank battle of the 20th century' was fought during which war?
Answer: (First) Gulf War in 1991