FunTrivia History Mix: Vol 3 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Great Wall

Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of China, and started his contribution to the Great Wall hundreds of years after the first walls were built. He is also famous for other ambitious projects, such as the Terracotta Army.

Question by player nautilator

Answer: Amistad

Lewis Tappan and James Pennington fought in court for the rights of the African slaves, and to be returned to their homeland. Lewis Tappan argued that while slavery was legal in Cuba, importation of slaves from Africa was not. The slaves were released and returned to their home, but Sengbe Pieh (or Joseph Cinque, the name the slavemasters gave him) found his wife and children had been killed.

Question by player buffyUK

Answer: Anne Frank

Anne Frank went in hiding with her family (and others) for over two years in the secret annex. The door that led to the annex was a fake bookshelf. They were betrayed in 1944 and sent to concentration camps. Only Anne's father, Otto, survived the Holocaust.

Question by player jjdancer

Answer: USA entered WWII

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 ("a date which will live in infamy") directly precipitated the U.S. entry into WWII. The U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the first use of atomic weapons) did not occur till 1945. Emperor Hirohito of Japan did not die by suicide; he died of cancer in 1989 at age 87.

Question by player Lalenya

Answer: Operation Pied Piper

The evacuation of Britain's cities at the beginning of World War II was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. In the first four days of September 1939, nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers to places of safety in the countryside.

Question by player sherry75

Answer: the entrance of foreigners

Sakoku severely limited the number of foreign nationals that could enter the country and the restricted the reasons they could be there. The policy also didn't allow regular Japanese citizens to leave the country and then return. One of the biggest reasons this policy was put into place was to limit the spread of Christianity in Japan along with the Spanish and Portuguese nationals who would have been more than happy to destabilize the shogunate government.

The policy came to an end after American warships showed up in Japanese harbors, effectively forcing Japan to begin trading with the outside world.

Question by player trident

Answer: China

The historic city of Nanking (modernly, Nanjing), served as a capital for the Yangtze River Delta region and as the capital of the Nationalist Republic of China (1927-37, 1946-49). The Empire of Japan invaded China in 1937, thereby beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese forces enter Nanking in December, looting, murdering civilians and brutally assaulting women and children.

Called "the Rape of Nanking," this war crime resulted in the death of approximately 300,000 to 350,000 civilians.

The modern city is a center of higher education, scientific research, and historic tourism.

Question by player FatherSteve

Answer: Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland is the only president (so far, anyway) to have served two nonconsecutive terms in office. He served 1885-1889, was succeeded by Benjamin Harrison and served again 1893-1897.

Question by player HappyCamper48

Answer: There was no victim

To be more precise, it was something for which there could be no victim and ought not to be a matter for legislation or even public concern. At the same time blasphemy was decriminalized as victimless.

Question by player bloomsby

Answer: 33

At the time there were actually 34 States admitted to the Union, Kansas having been admitted in January of 1861. However, the flag that flew over Fort Sumter still had only 33 stars.

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