HISTORY QUIZ NO. 9

[magpie in the 80's]

Q17 Tony Blair was born in Scotland

Regards
JAS

CORRECT BUT NOT THE LAST SCOTISH PRIME MINISTER

[magpie in the 80's]

1. Who was the first Danish king of England?
KING CANUTE
2. Who succeeded Nasser as President of Egypt?
ANWAR SADAT
3. Barnes Wallis is credited as the inventor of which military equipment?
THE BOUNCING BOMB
4. Irish novelist and poet, born 1882, died 1941
JAMIE JOYCE
5. It all started in a bakery in Pudding Lane, what?
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
6. Who was famously assasinated with an Ice Pick in Mexico?
LEON TROTSKY
7. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to do what?
SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
8. Valentina Tereshkova was the first what?
WOMAN IN SPACE
9. Whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?
HELEN OF TROY
10. What was codename of Bob Woodward's Watergate contact?
DEEP THROAT
11. British Honduras is now called what?
BELIZE
12. What Iceni queen fought against the Romans?
BOADICEA
13. What did the Nazis plan to flood Britain with in Operation Bernhard?
FORGED BANKNOTES
14. What country was most heavily-bombed in Vietnam war?
CAMBODIA
15. Which Nazi was tried as the Butcher of Lyon in 1987?
KLAUS BARBIE
16. Alan Shepard was the first man to do what?
HIT A GOLF BALL ON THE MOON
17. Before Gordon Brown, who was the last Scottish Prime Minister of Britain?
ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME
18. Whose name, apart from the astronauts', appears on the Apollo 11 plaque on the Moon?
RICHARD NIXON
19. Whose name led to policemen in England being called Bobbies?
SIR ROBERT PEEL
20. Why did the Roman Catholic church ban Mozart's music?
HE JOINED THE FEEMASONS

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ