HISTORY QUIZ NO. 26 MIXED

[magpie in the 80's]

1. Which war was the first war in which jet airplanes fought each other?
THE KOREAN WAR
2. The so-called Pastry war of 1838 was fought between which two nations?
FRANCE AND MEZICO
3. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France?
GEORGE POMPIDOU
4. Which civilisation built Machu Picchu?
THE INCAS
5. Ras Tafari was better known by which name?
HAILE SELASSIE
6. What was the name of the blind Benedictine monk who allegedly invented Champagne?
DOM PERIGNON
7. Which two other countries joined the EEC at the same time as Ireland?
UK AND DENMARK
8. Louis Blèriot was the first to do what in a what?
THE 1ST TO CROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL IN A AEROPLANE
9. Who is the only American President to have served non-consecutive terms in office?
GROVER CLEVLAND
10. Parker and Barrow were the surnames, what were the Christian names?
BONNIE AND CLYDE
11. What was the name of the Daily Mirror's wartime comic strip heroine?
JANE
12. In which city was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
DALLAS
13. Which British liner was sunk off the Irish coast by a German submarine on 7th May 1915?
THE LUSITANIA
14. In which year did the Battle of Agincourt take place?
1415
15. Which battle ended the Wars of the Roses?
BATTLE OF BOSWORTH
16. Which Japanese city was devastated by an earthquake on January 18th, 1995?
KOBE
17. Founded in 1885, which is Britain's oldest women's magazine?
THE LADY
18. For which event of 1872 is the name of Captain Briggs remembered?
HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE MARIE CELESTE
19. In which year did all the following occur:- King George V died, the Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire and the Spanish Civil War began?
1936
20. When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945, who was the President of the United States?
HARRY TRUMAN
21. Who was the first Danish king of England?
CANUTE
22. Who succeeded Nasser as President of Egypt?
ANWAR SADAT
23. Barnes Wallis is credited as the inventor of which military equipment?
THE BOUNCING BOMB
24. Irish novelist and poet, born 1882, died 1941
JAMES JOYCE
25. It all started in a bakery in Pudding Lane, what?
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
26. Who was famously assasinated with an Ice Pick in Mexico?
LEON TROTSKY
27. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to do what?
SWAM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL
28. Valentina Tereshkova was the first what?
1ST WOMAN IN SPACE
29. Whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?
HELEN OF TROY
30. What was codename of Bob Woodward's Watergate contact?
DEEP THROAT
31. British Honduras is now called what?
BELIZE
32. What Iceni queen fought against the Romans?
BOADICEA
33. What did the Nazis plan to flood Britain with in Operation Bernhard?
FORGED BANK NOTES
34. What country was most heavily-bombed in Vietnam war?
CAMBODIA
35. Which Nazi was tried as the Butcher of Lyon in 1987?
KLAUS BARBIE
36. Alan Shepard was the first man to do what?
HIT A GOLF BALL ON THE MOON
37. Before Gordon Brown, who was the last Scottish Prime Minister of Britain?
ALEC DOUGLAS-HOME
38. Whose name, apart from the astronauts', appears on the Apollo 11 plaque on the Moon?
RICHARD NIXON
39. Whose name led to policemen in England being called Bobbies?
SIR ROBERT PEEL
40. Why did the Roman Catholic church ban Mozart's music?
HE JOINED THE FREEMASONS
41. Who was the last British monarch from the House of York?
RICHARD III
42. Who was the United States President from 1953 to 1961?
DWIGHT EISENHOWSER
43. In which city was Joan of Arc burnt to death for being a witch?
ROUEN
44. Which Chinese leader established Peking as their winter capital?
KUBLAI KHAN
45. During which single military action were the most V.C’s won?
ROURKE'S DRIFT
46. Which Irish missionary and saint founded a monastery on the island of Iona?
ST. COLOMBO
47. Who was king of England at the time of the Gunpowder plot?
JAMES I
48. Whom did James earl ray assassinate?
MARTIN LUTHER KING
49. Who was the British Prime Minister when old age pensions were first introduced?
HERBERT ASQUITH
50. Which war did the treaty of Portsmouth end in 1905?
RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR
51. John Alden will go down in history as the first man to do what?
1ST OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS
52. What was the Babington Plot?
A PLOT TO ASSAANINATE QUEEN ELIZABETH THE 1ST
53. London's Tavistock square has 2 statues dedicated to which great figure in Indian history?
MAHATMA GHANDI
54. Which historical character did Errol Flynn play in the 1041 film ‘They died with their boots on ‘?
GENERAL CUSTER
55. The 18th Amendment introduced Prohibition in the United States, but which amendment abolished it?
21ST ADMENDMENT
56. At which castle did the investiture of the Prince of Wales take place in 1969?
CAERINARVON
57. Who was the last British monarch to be born outside the British Isles?
GEORGE II
58. How many times did Mary Queen of Scots get married?
3 TIMES
59. Who commanded the British forces that captured Quebec from the French in 1759?
GENERAL WOLFE
60. In which country is the site of the battle of Waterloo?
BELGIUM

[godoubleblues]

Q10(top) - Bonnie and Clyde
Q23(middle) - bouncing bomb
Q36(middle) - spacewalk.
Q48(bottom) - Martin Luther King

[magpie in the 80's]

Q10(top) - Bonnie and Clyde
Q23(middle) - bouncing bomb
Q36(middle) - spacewalk..........INCORRECT
Q48(bottom) - Martin Luther King

OTHERS CORRECT GDB

[JAS]

Q1 Korean War
Q4 Myan?
Q5 Haille Salassi (sp)
Q6 Nasty stuff...Dom Perrignon (sp)
Q11 Is that the rude on...Jane
Q12 Dallas?
Q13 Lusitania
Q15 Bosworth
Q16 Kobe?
Q17 Good Housekeeping?
Q25 The Great Fire of London
Q28 Female astronaut?
Q29 Helen of Troy
Q30 Deep throat
Q31 Belize
Q32 Boudica (sp)
Q37 Was it the one born here...MacMillan
Q39 Robert Peel
Q56 Caerinarvon (sp) Castle
Q60 Belgium

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

Q1 Korean War
Q4 Myan?
Q5 Haille Salassi (sp)
Q6 Nasty stuff...Dom Perrignon (sp)
Q11 Is that the rude on...Jane
Q12 Dallas?
Q13 Lusitania
Q15 Bosworth
Q16 Kobe?
Q17 Good Housekeeping?
Q25 The Great Fire of London
Q28 Female astronaut?
Q29 Helen of Troy
Q30 Deep throat
Q31 Belize
Q32 Boudica (sp)
Q37 Was it the one born here...MacMillan
Q39 Robert Peel
Q56 Caerinarvon (sp) Castle
Q60 Belgium

Regards
JAS

ALL OTHERS CORRECT JAS

[redandblack]

4 Inca

9 Franklin Delanor Roosevelt

20 Hoover

33 Forged money

34 Cambodia

35 Klaus Barbie?

42 Eisenhower

[magpie in the 80's]

4 Inca

9 Franklin Delanor Roosevelt...INCORRECT

20 Hoover....INCORRECT

33 Forged money

34 Cambodia

35 Klaus Barbie?

42 Eisenhower

OTHERS CORRECT RAB

[redandblack]

20 No idea why I said Hoover, he was the FBI director.

Make it Harry Truman.

[magpie in the 80's]

20 No idea why I said Hoover, he was the FBI director.

Make it Harry Truman.

then you are correct rab

[redandblack]

8 Louis Bleriot had something to do with flying.

First to fly in a single wing plane?

First to fly the English Channel?

[magpie in the 80's]

8 Louis Bleriot had something to do with flying.

First to fly in a single wing plane?

First to fly the English Channel?

that i'll do it rab

the Q is Louis Blèriot was the first to do what (1st to cross the english channel) in a what? (plane) simple

[JAS]

Q37 for god sake don't tell the locals...I meant Ramsey MacDonald
But forget that cos I just remembered...Tony Blair was born in Scotland I think.

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

Q37 for god sake don't tell the locals...I meant Ramsey MacDonald
But forget that cos I just remembered...Tony Blair was born in Scotland I think.

Regards
JAS

incorrect jas

[JAS]

Q17 Woman and Home
Q46 I know there's already an island named after him but he might have had 2 monastaries...St Kilda?

Regards
JAS

[Kahuna]

22/ Anwar Sadat
26/ Leon Trotsky
36/ Orbit the Earth
38/ Richard Nixon
45/ Rorke's Drift
54/ Custer

[magpie in the 80's]

22/ Anwar Sadat
26/ Leon Trotsky
36/ Orbit the Earth........INCORRECT THINK SPORTS
38/ Richard Nixon
45/ Rorke's Drift
54/ Custer

ALL OTHERS CORRECT K

[crackers]

36 play golf on the moon????

[magpie in the 80's]

Q17 Woman and Home
Q46 I know there's already an island named after him but he might have had 2 monastaries...St Kilda?

Regards
JAS

both incorrect jas

[magpie in the 80's]

36 play golf on the moon????

correct crackers

[JAS]

Q17 Woman's Own
Q46 Iona

Regards
JAS