Ultimate History Quiz
World History Quiz & Trivia
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
1,700+ questions across 17 eras, from Ancient Egypt to World War II. Every answer explained. Play in 10+ languages. No timers, no pressure, just history.
Herodotus History Challenge is a history quiz that teaches as you play. Every question comes with a short explanation, so a wrong answer is never wasted.
1,700+ questions. 17 eras. 10 levels each. No timer.
PICK YOUR ERA
World: Ancient World, Modern World, World War II
Europe: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Medieval World, Early Modern Europe, History of Germany, Medieval and Modern Russia
Asia: Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient China
Americas: Early Americas, Emerging America, Modern U.S. History, History of Brazil
Play in Japanese, Arabic, or Japanese and you also get a dedicated era for that country's history. Australian players get History of Australia.
LEARN, DON'T JUST GUESS
Each question has four options and one explanation. Answer correctly and you earn a coin. Answer wrong and you read why, then move on. Answer order is shuffled every attempt.
PROGRESS THAT MEANS SOMETHING
Levels unlock as you answer correctly. Earn stars per level and a crown for a perfect 10/10. The Historian Profile tracks best answers, perfect scores, and per-era progress, and awards achievements such as Perfect Chronicle and Master of an Era.
HINTS AND HEARTS
Stuck? Spend 2 coins to remove a wrong option, up to three times per question. Hearts keep you in the game: you lose one after three wrong answers, and you earn them back by hitting answer milestones, watching an optional ad, or spending coins.
10+ LANGUAGES. Switch at any time from the cover screen.
GOOD FOR
• Students reviewing world history, AP, GCSE, or IB
• Trivia and pub quiz fans
• Anyone who likes documentaries and wants to test what stuck
FREE TO PLAY
The full question bank is free. Optional in-app purchases: 100 Coins and 20 Hearts. Ads are optional and rewarded, never forced between questions.
Herodotus wrote the first history. Now see how much of it you know.
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Welcome to the biggest update yet.
• Historian Profile: statistics, per-era progress bars, and five achievements from First Chronicle to World Historian.
• Hearts as rewards: earn bonus hearts at 20, 40, 60, 80, 90, and 100 correct answers in an era.
• Remove-a-wrong-answer hint for 2 coins, up to three times per question.
• Answer order is shuffled on every attempt so you learn the fact, not the position.
• 2 new languages with an in-app language switcher.
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Information
- Seller
- Emin Asgarov
- Size
- 61.9 MB
- Category
- Trivia
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 39 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Purchase 20 Lives $0.99
- Purchase 100 Coins $0.99
- Copyright
- © Emin Asgarov