Practice your trivia skills: History

History

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

Hindi

Finnish

Russian

English

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

Urban II

Alexander VI

Pius III

Innocent V

58. List the following Iranic empires in chronological order:

Achaemenid, Median, Parthian, Sassanid

Achaemenid, Median, Sassanid, Parthian

Median, Achaemenid, Sassanid, Parthian

Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid

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

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

James K. Polk

George Washington

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

Gerald Ford

Lydon B. Johnson

Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter