Daily challenge · 17 October 2026
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Question 1
Who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932?
- A Bessie Coleman
- B Amelia Earhart
- C Harriet Quimby
- D Jacqueline Cochran
Amelia Earhart completed her solo transatlantic flight in May 1932.
Question 2
In what year was the first transcontinental railroad in the United States completed?
- A 1859
- B 1865
- C 1869
- D 1873
The rail lines were joined at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869.
Question 3
Which 1905 treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War?
- A Treaty of Portsmouth
- B Treaty of Shimonoseki
- C Treaty of Aigun
- D Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the war; U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt helped broker the negotiations.
Question 4
What was the capital of the Hittite Empire?
- A Nineveh
- B Hattusa
- C Persepolis
- D Ur
Hattusa, in what is now central Turkey, was the Hittite capital.
Question 5
Which British Admiralty intelligence office decrypted the Zimmermann Telegram during the First World War?
- A MI5
- B Room 40
- C Bletchley Park
- D The Special Operations Executive
Room 40 was the Admiralty’s codebreaking section during the war.
Question 6
Who drafted the Declaration of Sentiments presented at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention?
- A Lucretia Mott
- B Susan B. Anthony
- C Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- D Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the declaration, which set out arguments for women’s rights.
Question 7
Which Austrian diplomat was a leading figure at the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars?
- A Klemens von Metternich
- B Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
- C Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- D Karl Nesselrode
Metternich, Austria’s foreign minister, played a central role in the Congress.
Question 8
Who led the 1905 workers’ march in St. Petersburg that preceded the events known as Bloody Sunday?
- A Vladimir Lenin
- B Georgy Gapon
- C Leon Trotsky
- D Alexander Kerensky
Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon helped organize and led the march toward the Winter Palace.
Question 9
Which treaty did the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne replace, settling the postwar terms between Turkey and the Allied powers?
- A Treaty of Sèvres
- B Treaty of Neuilly
- C Treaty of Trianon
- D Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Lausanne replaced the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, whose terms had been rejected by Turkish nationalists.
Final question
Which North Sea island did Britain transfer to Germany under the 1890 Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty?
- A Rügen
- B Heligoland
- C Bornholm
- D Sylt
Britain ceded Heligoland to Germany in the agreement, which also defined other colonial and territorial arrangements.