Practice your trivia skills: History

History

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

Finnish

Hindi

English

Russian

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

Urban II

Pius III

Alexander VI

Innocent V

58. List the following Iranic empires in chronological order:

Achaemenid, Median, Sassanid, Parthian

Median, Achaemenid, Sassanid, Parthian

Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid

Achaemenid, Median, Parthian, Sassanid

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

James K. Polk

Thomas Jefferson

George Washington

James Madison

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

Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter

Gerald Ford

Lydon B. Johnson