HISTORY QUIZ NO. 9

[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

[redandblack]

3 Dambuster Bomb

9 Helen of Troy

11 Belize ?

13 Counterfiet Currency

19 Sir Robert Peel

[Peterxtc]

6. s. Panzar

12. Bodacia

14. Loas

[magpie in the 80's]

3 Dambuster Bomb............CLOSE ENOUGH

9 Helen of Troy

11 Belize ?

13 Counterfiet Currency

19 Sir Robert Peel

ALL CORRECT R AND B

[magpie in the 80's]

6. s. Panzar

12. Bodacia.....CORRECT

14. Loas

ALL OTHERS INCORRECT PETE

[Leaping Lindner]

3. The bouncing bomb used in the Dambuster raids
5. The Great Fire of London
6. Leon Trotsky
7. Swim the englsih channel
8. Woman in space
9. Aphrodite
10. Deep Throat
11. Belize
12. Bodace (sp?)
13. Fake currency and thus collapse the ecomony
14. Cambodia
15. Klaus Barbie
16. Walk in space
19. Robert Peel
20. Because they are morans.....seriously don't know

[magpie in the 80's]

3. The bouncing bomb used in the Dambuster raids
5. The Great Fire of London
6. Leon Trotsky
7. Swim the englsih channel
8. Woman in space
9. Aphrodite.....INCORRECT
10. Deep Throat
11. Belize
12. Bodace (sp?)
13. Fake currency and thus collapse the ecomony
14. Cambodia
15. Klaus Barbie
16. Walk in space...........INCORRECT
19. Robert Peel
20. Because they are morans.....seriously don't know.........INCORRECT

ALL OTHERS CORRECT LL

[godoubleblues]

Q16 - first American in space

[Kahuna]

2/ Anwar Sadat
4/James Joyce
16/ First to orbit the Earth
18/Richard Nixon

[magpie in the 80's]

Q16 - first American in space

INCORRECT GDB

[magpie in the 80's]

2/ Anwar Sadat
4/James Joyce
16/ First to orbit the Earth........INCORRECT
18/Richard Nixon

ALL OTHERS CORRECT K

[Interceptor]

1, King Canute?

[magpie in the 80's]

1, King Canute?

CORRECT INTERCEPTOR

[godoubleblues]

Q16 - first American in space

INCORRECT GDB

was he the first man to go into space twice

[magpie in the 80's]

Q16 - first American in space

INCORRECT GDB

was he the first man to go into space twice

not sure about that but this person was the 1st and probably only one to do this ON the moon

[Kahuna]

not sure about that but this person was the 1st and probably only one to do this ON the moon

Ah a different bloke than the one we are thinking of then.
How about first to drive on the moon or first to play a golf shot there?

[godoubleblues]

Q16 - first American in space

INCORRECT GDB

was he the first man to go into space twice

not sure about that but this person was the 1st and probably only one to do this ON the moon

OK, I think he had a hit of golf, was that it, the first and only man to hit a golf ball on the moon

[magpie in the 80's]

not sure about that but this person was the 1st and probably only one to do this ON the moon

Ah a different bloke than the one we are thinking of then.
How about first to drive on the moon or first to play a golf shot there?

CORRECT WITH THE GOLF K

[magpie in the 80's]

OK, I think he had a hit of golf, was that it, the first and only man to hit a golf ball on the moon

CORRECT GDB

[JAS]

Q17 Tony Blair was born in Scotland

Regards
JAS