Practice your trivia skills: History

History

56. Which of the following is not in the Indo-European language family?

Russian

Hindi

Finnish

English

57. The son of which pope supposedly held a lecherous fête involving 50 courtesans in the papal palace?

Urban II

Alexander VI

Innocent V

Pius III

58. List the following Iranic empires in chronological order:

Achaemenid, Median, Sassanid, Parthian

Achaemenid, Median, Parthian, Sassanid

Median, Achaemenid, Sassanid, Parthian

Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid

59. Who was the first president of the United States?

James Madison

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

James K. Polk

60. Which U.S. President was famously 'attacked' by a swimming rabbit?

Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan

Lydon B. Johnson

Jimmy Carter