1. Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
2. What year did the American civil war start?
1861
3. Who was president of the USA when the civil war started?
Abraham Lincoln
4. What political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?
Republican Party
5. What nation did the original colonies revolt and go to war against to gain independence and form the USA?
Great Britain
6. What was the battle of Hastings?
A battle fought between the Norman forces of William (the Bastard), Duke of Normandy and the Saxon forces of the then-reigning king of England, Harold Godwineson. Fought after the death of the Confessor in 1066, throwing open the secession between four claiments, the Saxon royal family (athelings), Norwegian King, (Harald Hardrada), Saxon Witangemot, (Godwineson), and William the Bastard.
Godwineson defeated Hardrada at Stamford Bridges in Northumberland and marched his army in 6 weeks, the length of England to strive against the Norman invasion in Sussex.
William defeated Godwineson and subjugated Saxon England.
His direct dynasty lasted until Matilda, but descendents from female lines continue on the throne of England today.
7. What was the Magna Charta? (Charta is the spelling used when I was in school, not Carta)
A pact signed between then King John Plantagenet and the Barons, ending the Baron war. The Magna Charta granted certain rights to the nobility, such as judicial trials and Habeas Corpus. The document is the foundation of the entire legal code of the British Commonwealth.
8. Who was president of the USA when we entered WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
9. Who was the American president who ordered the bombing of Japan with nuclear weapons?
Harry Truman
10.What countries formed the “Axis powers” of WWII?
Nazi Germany, the Empire of Japan and Fascist Italy.
Do I pass?
Of course you pass but my point in the original post was that we have history majors in my area who can’t even answer three of those ten questions correctly. I didn’t make it up, it is true.