How it works
These World War 1 trivia questions and answers stay with dates, places, treaties and names, in four rounds from Bismarck's alliances to the last payment of a war debt. No casualty count is asked.
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WW1 trivia questions, round by round
Alliances and the road to war runs from 1870 to the summer of 1914. Fronts and campaigns goes from the Race to the Sea to the Piave. The third round has the treaties and armistices of 1917 and 1918, and The peace and the long bill follows the reparations to 1953.
Difficult WWI trivia questions, read aloud
More than half of these WWI trivia questions and answers are marked hard. They ask when, where and which treaty, and leave out death tolls and weapons, so a table of mixed ages can play. Tap a choice to check it; the reason appears with the answer.
Tips
- A candidate for the hardest trivia question of World War 1 here: the Romanian plan called Hypothesis Z.
Questions and answers
What are some easy World War 1 trivia questions?
By which other name was the war known? What were the Balkans called before 1914? To which country did the trenches run from the English Channel? The answers are the Great War, the powder keg of Europe and Switzerland.
When did World War I start and end?
It ran from July 28, 1914, when Austria declared war on Serbia, to the Armistice of November 11, 1918.
Is there a World War One trivia question about the United States?
Several. Congress declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 as an Associated Power, American and French troops launched the Meuse-Argonne offensive on September 26, 1918, and the Knox-Porter Resolution ended American involvement in 1921.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article World War I, which every question links. Death tolls, weapons and the influenza epidemic are not asked.