HISTORY QUIZ NO.63

[magpie in the 80's]

1.Who was shot and killed in Dallas City Jail on 24th November 1963?
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
2.In which French city was Joan of Arc burned at the stake?
ROUEN
3.Which British monarch did the Gunpowder Plot conspirators intend to assassinate?
JAMES I
4.What specifically connects the United Nations and the countries of Norway, Sweden, Burma now Myanmar, Austria, Peru, Egypt and Nigeria?
ALL PROVIDED SECRETARY GENERALS TO THE UN
5.Which world leader met with Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in 1945 to make post-war plans?
JOSEPH STALIN
6.In which US city was Robert Kennedy assassinated?
LOS ANGELES
7.Which country had the world's first woman Prime Minister?
CEYLON/SRI LANKA
8. Who co-wrote 'The Communist Manifesto' with Karl Marx?
FRIEDERICH ENGELS
9.Which ship was bombed by the R.A.F. off the Cornish coast in 1967?
THE TURRY CANNON
10.Who was John F Kennedy's running mate in the 1960 US Presidential elections?
LYNDON B JOHNSON
11.In which year did Elvis Presley die?
1977
12.In World War Two, which three countries were known as the Axis Powers?
GERMANY - ITALY - JAPAN
13.What in World War Two was the name of the French system of fortifications running along the Franco-German border?
THE MAGINOT LINE
14.During the French Revolution, what name was given to the women who sat knitting by the guillotine?
LES TRICOTEUSEE
15.Which U.S. President first sent troops to Vietnam in 1965?
LYNDON B JOHNSON
16.In which year did Bill Clinton become President of the U S?
1993
17.Who was the last British Prime Minister to have served more than one monarch?
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
18.What was the name of the group of people in the early 19th century who smashed factory machinery as part of an anti-industrial protest movement?
LUDDITES
19.Who was the leader of the first successful expedition to climb Mount Everest?
COLONEL JOHN HUNT
20.How was 617 Squadron of the R.A.F. better known in World War Two?
THE DAMBUSTERS

[brod]

1. Lee Harvey Oswald

[FattyLumpkin]

20 Dam Busters?

[Mr Beefy]

11 1972
19 Hillary

[old moz]

11--1977
4--all provided Sec-Gen of UN
5---stalin
6--los angelis
15--johnson
17---churchill
18---ludites

[Leaping Lindner]

1.Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
3.James 1st
5.Joseph Stalin
6.Chicago
7.India (?)
8.Engels
10.Lyndon B Johnson (?)
11.August 16th 1977
12.Nazi Germany, Facist Italy, Imperial Japan
13.Maginot Line
15.Lyndon B Johnson
16.1992
17.Churchill
19. Sir Edmund Hillary
20. The Dambusters

[magpie in the 80's]

1. Lee Harvey Oswald

brod

[magpie in the 80's]

20 Dam Busters?

fatty

[magpie in the 80's]

11 1972
19 Hillary

both incorrect MB

[magpie in the 80's]

11--1977
4--all provided Sec-Gen of UN
5---stalin
6--los angelis
15--johnson
17---churchill
18---ludites

om

[magpie in the 80's]

1.Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby
3.James 1st
5.Joseph Stalin
6.Chicago
7.India (?)
8.Engels
10.Lyndon B Johnson (?)
11.August 16th 1977
12.Nazi Germany, Facist Italy, Imperial Japan
13.Maginot Line
15.Lyndon B Johnson
16.1992
17.Churchill
19. Sir Edmund Hillary
20. The Dambusters

all others correct LL

[good ol' red and white]

14. Madam macabre?

[magpie in the 80's]

14. Madam macabre?

GORAW

[Peterxtc]

2. Orleans?

[Kahuna]

7/ India
19/ Hilary

[magpie in the 80's]

2. Orleans?

pete

[magpie in the 80's]

7/ India
19/ Hilary

both incorrect K

[Footy Chick]

7. Sri Lanka (or whatever it was called back then)

16. 1991

[magpie in the 80's]

7. Sri Lanka (or whatever it was called back then)
16. 1991

[Footy Chick]

7. Sri Lanka (or whatever it was called back then)
16. 1991

bugger, it must have been:

16. 1990