Bizarre History Questions

Can You Pass This Bizarre History Quiz?

Lots of great stories from history we learned in school are just wrong or inaccurate. Something did happen in history that you can hardly believe, until we show you now in this quiz.

If you don't know the answer, take your best shot at it. This is supposed to be fun!

Fixed some typos - Nov 11, 2018

References:

C. Devens (1992) Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes Missions, 1630-1900. University of California Press
Megan Drever (2022) Gendered Disposability of Indigenous Women Across Time and Space. INvoke

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During WWII (World War II), the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs strapped to their backs. Unfortunately the Russians decided to use those tanks in battle, so the dogs were ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead. Instant Karma for anyone who would use dogs in battle. But is it true?
Yes
No
W.V Meadows was shot in the eye during the Battle of Vicksburg during the American Civil War. He survived.... and coughed the bullet out of his mouth 58 years later.
True
False
The "F" in John F. Kennedy's name stands for what?
Frederick
Fitzgerald
Finnegan
Franklin
What Percentage of Soviet males born in 1923 survived WWII?
40%
20%
80%
8%
Nintendo was founded in what year?
1997
1964
1200 bc
1889
As of March 25th 2018, one person in the US is still receiving a Civil War soldier’s pension.
True
False
From 1347 to 1351, the bacterium Yersinia Pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) plagued most of Europe. What percentage of the population survived?
96%
17%
50%
2%
Someone from NASA accidentally erased the tape of the first steps on the moon, and what we see now is a much lower quality copy of that tape.
True
False
Which of the following is the oldest?
The Aztec Empire
Oxford University
The Magna Carta
William Shakespeare
Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant and recorded her death on video.
True - Good inventor, not a good person.
False - Thomas Edison would never do something that horrible!
Once each year, Spartan men would do this:
Go to the Isle of Crete and sacrifice a virgin.
Visit their wives in order to create a pregnancy.
Have a bloodsport day, where every man went around town trying to kill as many slaves as he could.
Watch "I Love Lucy" reruns and eat chocolate ice-cream.
Byzantine emperor, Basil, captured 15,000 Bulgarians in battle and blinded 99 of every 100. He then sent them all home.
True
False
Australian Aborigines invented the first fan, made of palm branches in 12,000 a.d.
True
False
Which disease has killed 50% of the human population, more than any other?
Cancer
Malaria
Heart Disease
Influenza
As of 2018, United States of America has been around for 242 years. How many of those years have been spent in war?
17
76
299
222
A witness to Lincoln's assassination later recounted the story on television.
True
False
Explorer and renowned jerk was a pimp who forced underage native girls into prostitution.
Christopher Columbus
Meriwether Lewis
Marco Polo
Nelly Bly
Who was a signer of the United States Constitution?
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
George Washington
Pythagoras, who discovered how to measure triangles (you know, a² + b² = c²) did not believe in fractions. He also killed people who did not agree with him.
True
False
Who wrote the first flawless computer code?
Ada Lovelace
Steve Jobs
Linus Torveld
Steve Wozniak

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