Welcome to History Quiz #16…

In what year…

1. Did Yuri Gagarin become the first human to journey into outer space?

2. Did the Titanic sink whilst on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York?

3. Did the Spice Girls achieve their first number one hit?

4. Did the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II take place?

5. Did the last few US soldiers leave South Vietnam as Saigon fell to communist forces?

6. Did Alexander Fleming discover penicillin, the worlds first antibiotic?

7. Did prohibition end in the US?

8. Did the first FIFA World Cup take place?

9. Did the first Gulf War start?

10. Was the Berlin Wall demolished?

Welcome to History Quiz #15…

1. Sir Edmund Hillary, alongside Sherpa Tenzing, was the first to reach the summit of Mt Everest, what nationality was he?

2. Who was the architect who ‘rebuilt London’ after the Great Fire of 1666?

3. Which iconic board game was launched by the Parker Brothers in 1935?

4. The Dutch East Indies was the former name of which modern day country?

5. Which Nobel prize were both Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin nominated for?

6. In which century was Great Wall of China completed?

7. Which Queen of the British Celtic Iceni led a revolt against the Romans in AD60?

8. Where did the Velvet Revolution of 1989 take place?

9. Which king was executed during the English Civil War?

10. Which planet was discovered in 1846?

Welcome to History Quiz #14…

1. Which Roman Emperor’s last words were ‘I am still alive’?

2. Who was the founder of the FBI?

3. How many king Louis’s of France have there been?

4. Which mountain is home to Zeus and Hera?

5. Who succeeded Hitler as leader of the Third Reich?

6. What was Jane Austen’s first published novel?

7. Who was the first British monarch to abdicate?

8. Sir Alan Cobham was a pioneer in which field?

9. Which was Scotlands first university?

10. By what name was the 17th century zealot Matthew Hopkins known?

Welcome to History Quiz #13…

1. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?

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

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

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

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

6. Who did Gavrilo Princip assassinate in 1914?

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

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

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

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

Welcome to History Quiz #12…

1. Name the four US Presidents carved into Mt Rushmore?

2. Which Royal Navy Ship rushed back to England in 1805 with the news of the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar?

3. In 1893, which country became the first to give women the right to vote?

4. What was the name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945?

5. What was the name of the infamous Cambodian revolutionary and politician that governed Cambodia as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979?

6. Who became the first mayor of London in 2000?

7. Which country was previously known as the Dutch East Indies?

8. Which country did Vietnam gain independence from in 1954?

9. Canadian Captain ‘Arthur ‘Roy’ Brown’ is credited with shooting down which legendary pilot?

10. In which country did the Mau Mau rebellion occur in the 1950s?

Welcome to History Quiz #11…

1. The Country of Burma changed its name to what in 1989?

2. In what year did the Battle of Trafalgar take place?

3. In 1814 George Stephenson invented what, that changed the landscape of transportation?

4. Harriet Quimby became the USA’s first licensed female what in 1911?

5. Which Carthaginian General was famous for his use of Elephants during Battle?

6. Who did the US purchase the State of Alaska from in 1867 for $7.2 milion?

7. In what year was Queen Elizabeth II born?

8. Who assissinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865?

9. Which Colonel attempted to steal the Crown Jewels in 1671?

10. In what year did the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster occur?

Welcome to History Quiz #10…

1. In which century did 10 Downing Street become the official residence of the Prime Minister of Great Britain?

2. Which part of Berlin was enclosed by the wall?

3. The Battle of Bosworth Field was the last significant battle of which series of civil wars?

4. Who was the last Tsar of Russia?

5. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered which infamous speech?

6. Which English king died in 1066, leaving no heir to the throne?

7. What was the name of the mythological monster which had 9 heads?

8. Which long distance train first ran in October 1883?

9. Who found the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Nov 1922?

10. What was Nelson Mandela’s political party called?

Welcome to History Quiz #9…

1. How long was the ‘Hundred Years’ War’?

2. John Wilkes Booth was the assassin of who?

3. Which Roman emperor declared war on Neptune, God of the sea?

4. In which year was Margaret Thatcher first elected as Prime Minister of Britain?

5. From which European country did the US buy the Virgin Islands in 1917?

6. Which figure of the ‘Great Renaissance’ had the surname Buonarroti?

7. Which military leader was nicknamed ‘The Desert Fox’?

8. On which island was Napoleon exiled, after his loss at Waterloo?

9. On which date is St Stevens day traditionally celebrated?

10. Who was nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans” and burnt at the stake in 1431?

Welcome to History Quiz #8…

1. Who killed Achilles?

2. First used in WWI, what was the howitzer gun more commonly known as? 

3. In which country was Che Guevara killed?

4. What was Ben Hur’s first name?

5. Which formmer SS Officer was known as the ‘The Butcher of Lyons’?

6. Which of the Bronte sisters wrote ‘Wuthering Heights’?

7. In which war did the Battle of Agincourt take place?

8. What was the codename for the Dambusters bouncing bomb?

9. What is the Worlds oldest sunday newspaper?

10. Which Russian Tsar murdered his own son?

Welcome to History Quiz #7…

1. Which English King was crowned twice?

2. Who famously asked “is Paris burning?”?

3. Which of Henry VIII’s wives is buried next to him?

4. Who was president of the United States of America at the outbreak of WWI?

5. Name the other infamous half, Burke and…?

6. Who was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo?

7. In which battle did the Sioux defeat General Custer?

8. What did George V give up for WWI?

9. Who said “The ballot is stronger than the bullet”?

10. What was the name of the failed 1961 invasion by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro’s Cuban revolution?