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World History Trivia: 31 Mercury Tombs, Cat Shields & 38-Minute Wars

Forget memorizing treaty dates—explore 31 jaw-dropping global history stories spanning meteoric pharaoh daggers, silk-armored Mongols, and ships hauled over mountains.

What does the world's oldest known customer complaint tablet gripe about?

Question 1 of 31Easy

1.What does the world's oldest known customer complaint tablet gripe about?

Cleopatra lived closer in time to which event than Giza's construction?

Question 2 of 31Easy

2.Cleopatra lived closer in time to which event than Giza's construction?

What toxic liquid did China's First Emperor pump through his tomb?

Question 3 of 31Medium

3.What toxic liquid did China's First Emperor pump through his tomb?

Why did young Julius Caesar scold his Cilician pirate captors in 75 BC?

Question 4 of 31Easy

4.Why did young Julius Caesar scold his Cilician pirate captors in 75 BC?

What did Persian soldiers carry at Pelusium so Egyptians wouldn't shoot?

Question 5 of 31Medium

5.What did Persian soldiers carry at Pelusium so Egyptians wouldn't shoot?

How did Hannibal's engineers reportedly crack giant Alpine boulders blocking his elephants?

Question 6 of 31Hard

6.How did Hannibal's engineers reportedly crack giant Alpine boulders blocking his elephants?

How long did history's shortest recorded war in Zanzibar last?

Question 7 of 31Easy

7.How long did history's shortest recorded war in Zanzibar last?

Why did Mongol warriors wear tightly woven raw silk undershirts in battle?

Question 8 of 31Medium

8.Why did Mongol warriors wear tightly woven raw silk undershirts in battle?

Whose lavish 1324 pilgrimage handed out so much gold Cairo's economy crashed?

Question 9 of 31Easy

9.Whose lavish 1324 pilgrimage handed out so much gold Cairo's economy crashed?

What did Protestants say cushioned Catholic officials thrown 70 feet in Prague?

Question 10 of 31Medium

10.What did Protestants say cushioned Catholic officials thrown 70 feet in Prague?

How did the Inca Empire record taxes and censuses without writing?

Question 11 of 31Easy

11.How did the Inca Empire record taxes and censuses without writing?

Which single flower bulb cost more than an Amsterdam canal house?

Question 12 of 31Medium

12.Which single flower bulb cost more than an Amsterdam canal house?

Why did Erik the Red name an icy island 'Greenland' around 985?

Question 13 of 31Hard

13.Why did Erik the Red name an icy island 'Greenland' around 985?

How many sea snails did ancients crush for one gram of dye?

Question 14 of 31Medium

14.How many sea snails did ancients crush for one gram of dye?

How did Aztec farmers grow abundant crops across swampy Lake Texcoco?

Question 15 of 31Easy

15.How did Aztec farmers grow abundant crops across swampy Lake Texcoco?

Why did Song Dynasty merchants invent the world's first paper banknotes?

Question 16 of 31Medium

16.Why did Song Dynasty merchants invent the world's first paper banknotes?

How did Pope Clement VIII respond when urged to ban 'Satan's drink'?

Question 17 of 31Hard

17.How did Pope Clement VIII respond when urged to ban 'Satan's drink'?

How did Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II bypass Constantinople's giant harbor chain?

Question 18 of 31Medium

18.How did Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II bypass Constantinople's giant harbor chain?

Why did burning down King Ashurbanipal's palace accidentally save his royal library?

Question 19 of 31Hard

19.Why did burning down King Ashurbanipal's palace accidentally save his royal library?

Why was Isaac Newton stuck at his family farm in 1665?

Question 20 of 31Easy

20.Why was Isaac Newton stuck at his family farm in 1665?

What did British and German soldiers spontaneously play on Christmas 1914?

Question 21 of 31Easy

21.What did British and German soldiers spontaneously play on Christmas 1914?

Where did French soldiers stumble across the Rosetta Stone in 1799?

Question 22 of 31Easy

22.Where did French soldiers stumble across the Rosetta Stone in 1799?

What were the counter-top terracotta jars in Pompeii's street snack bars?

Question 23 of 31Medium

23.What were the counter-top terracotta jars in Pompeii's street snack bars?

Where did the iron in King Tutankhamun's tomb dagger originate?

Question 24 of 31Medium

24.Where did the iron in King Tutankhamun's tomb dagger originate?

Which Indonesian volcano caused New England snowstorms in June of 1816?

Question 25 of 31Hard

25.Which Indonesian volcano caused New England snowstorms in June of 1816?

What prize crowned victorious athletes at the original ancient Greek Olympics?

Question 26 of 31Easy

26.What prize crowned victorious athletes at the original ancient Greek Olympics?

How far did Sweden's top-heavy warship Vasa sail before sinking in 1628?

Question 27 of 31Medium

27.How far did Sweden's top-heavy warship Vasa sail before sinking in 1628?

How did sixth-century monks smuggle China's closely guarded silkworms to Constantinople?

Question 28 of 31Hard

28.How did sixth-century monks smuggle China's closely guarded silkworms to Constantinople?

How did ninth-century Baghdad's Caliph al-Ma'mun pay scholars who translated scientific books?

Question 29 of 31Medium

29.How did ninth-century Baghdad's Caliph al-Ma'mun pay scholars who translated scientific books?

How did Antoine Parmentier trick suspicious French peasants into eating potatoes?

Question 30 of 31Hard

30.How did Antoine Parmentier trick suspicious French peasants into eating potatoes?

What did the Aztecs and Maya use cacao beans as besides drinks?

Question 31 of 31Easy

31.What did the Aztecs and Maya use cacao beans as besides drinks?