Western history trivia

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• In medieval feudalism, what do we call the land or rights a lord granted to a vassal?Medieval Europe
• Which region is known as the main base of the Vikings?Medieval Europe
• Who was the supreme leader of the Catholic Church in medieval Western Europe?Medieval Europe
• Before printing spread widely, what was a book copied out by hand called?Medieval Europe
• What was a warrior who fought in armor on horseback in medieval Europe called?Medieval Europe
• Which pope called for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095?Medieval Europe
• Where was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, that is, the Byzantine Empire?Medieval Europe
• Which English king granted Magna Carta?Medieval Europe
• Which medieval cathedral style is marked by pointed arches and soaring height?Medieval Europe
• The Hundred Years' War was a long war fought between France and England.Medieval Europe
• Joan of Arc fought on the French side in the Hundred Years' War.Medieval Europe
• In the medieval European order of estates, which group took charge of religious rites?Medieval Europe
• A medieval castle was used only as a store for grain.Medieval Europe
• The start of the European Middle Ages is traditionally tied to Columbus's voyage of 1492.Medieval Europe
• The Black Death was an epidemic that sharply cut Europe's population in the 19th century.Medieval Europe
• In medieval feudal society the lord-vassal bond was an important foundation.Medieval Europe
• Monasteries in medieval Europe played an important part in copying and preserving books.Medieval Europe
• Magna Carta is a document issued in England in 1215 that limited royal power.Medieval Europe
• Charlemagne received the imperial crown from the Pope in 1077.Medieval Europe
• The Crusades began with the aim of taking the gold of the Americas.Medieval Europe
• Who painted the Mona Lisa, the emblematic painting of the Renaissance?Early modern Europe
• Which treaty ended the Thirty Years' War?Early modern Europe
• Who crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas in 1492?Early modern Europe
• Who lit the spark of the Reformation by publishing the Ninety-five Theses?Early modern Europe
• Which Enlightenment thinker wrote The Social Contract?Early modern Europe
• What do we call the events of 1688 in which Parliament brought in William and Mary?Early modern Europe
• Which Scottish economic thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations?Early modern Europe
• Which German figure advanced printing with movable metal type?Early modern Europe
• Which king of France made Versailles the seat of royal power?Early modern Europe
• In which country did the Renaissance develop first?Early modern Europe
• The Industrial Revolution began first in the United States.Early modern Europe
• The French Revolution began in 1789.Early modern Europe
• Columbus crossed the Atlantic and reached the Americas in 1492.Early modern Europe
• The Peace of Westphalia was the treaty that ended the Hundred Years' War.Early modern Europe
• The figure known as the Sun King was Henry VIII of England.Early modern Europe
• Copernicus argued for a sun-centered universe.Early modern Europe
• The Enlightenment placed weight on reason and critical thought.Early modern Europe
• The Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England strengthened the powers of Parliament.Early modern Europe
• Martin Luther published the Ninety-five Theses in 1789.Early modern Europe
• The Renaissance was a cultural movement that first flowered in England.Early modern Europe
• Who led the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution of 1917?Contemporary Europe
• In which year did the Second World War end?Contemporary Europe
• In which year were East and West Germany united into the Federal Republic of Germany?Contemporary Europe
• Which country did Nazi Germany invade in 1939, opening the Second World War?Contemporary Europe
• Who was the victim of the Sarajevo assassination that set off the First World War?Contemporary Europe
• Which German city was split east from west by a wall during the Cold War?Contemporary Europe
• Which common currency is used by many member states of the European Union?Contemporary Europe
• What was the side that stood against Germany, Italy, and Japan in the Second World War called?Contemporary Europe
• Which treaty imposed reparations and limits on armaments on Germany after the First World War?Contemporary Europe
• In which country did the Allied Normandy landings of 1944 take place?Contemporary Europe
• Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1945.Contemporary Europe
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded in 1949.Contemporary Europe
• Yugoslavia broke apart into several independent states in the 1990s.Contemporary Europe
• The phrase Iron Curtain became widely known through a speech by Winston Churchill.Contemporary Europe
• The First World War began in 1939.Contemporary Europe
• The event that opened the Second World War was Germany's invasion of France.Contemporary Europe
• The Berlin Wall was a defensive fortification raised just after the First World War.Contemporary Europe
• The European Union (EU) is a body for political and economic cooperation among European states.Contemporary Europe
• The Treaty of Versailles was concluded to end the Second World War.Contemporary Europe
• The Second World War ended in 1945.Contemporary Europe