1. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?

2. Which American president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. What year did women in the United States gain the right to vote?

4. Which Ottoman Sultan captured Constantinople in 1453?

5. What was the first major book printed using Gutenberg's movable type press?

6. Who was the formerly enslaved general who became the leader of the Haitian Revolution?

7. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party during the 1917 Russian Revolution?

8. What nickname is given to the day the stock market crashed in 1929?

9. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

10. In what year was the Berlin Wall originally constructed?

11. On which island did Nelson Mandela spend 18 of his 27 years in prison?

12. The Rwandan Genocide primarily targeted which ethnic minority group?

13. Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web while working at CERN?

14. Which two seas are connected by the Suez Canal?

15. According to legend, who was the first king of Rome?

16. Which Pope called for the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont?

17. Newton's 'Principia' famously established the law of universal what?

18. Who was the Austrian statesman who presided over the Congress of Vienna?

19. What was the name of the network that served as the precursor to the modern internet?

20. During which Chinese dynasty was the Silk Road officially opened for trade?