Here are the answers to History Quiz #13…

1. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?

A. Corsica

2. The controversial film ‘Birth of a Nation’, which was released in 1915, was used as a recruiting tool for which organisation?

A. The Ku Klux Klan

3. Who sent the Spanish Armada to England in 1588?

A. Phillip II of Spain

4. Dr Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech on the steps of which Washington DC landmark?

A. The Lincoln Memorial

5. Who led the Scottish army to victory over the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314?

A. Robert the Bruce

6. Who did Gavrilo Princip assassinate in 1914?

A. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

7. Which American president was in power during the ‘Black Thursday’ Wall Street crash?

A. Herbert Hoover

8. ‘Magna mortalitas’ is an alternative name for what?

A. The Black Death (Plague)

9. Which Roman God was the father of Romulus and Remus?

A. Mars

10. Two centuries of what was instigated when Pope Innocent VIII published the papal bull ‘Summis Desiderantes Affectibus’ in 1484?

A. Witch Hunts