HISTORY QUIZ NO.63

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

bugger, it must have been:

16. 1990

uuummmm nup

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last days for this quiz

[sherminator]

16. 1993?
19. Sir Edmund Hillary

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16. 1993?
19. Sir Edmund Hillary

[cripple]

19. tenzing norgay

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19. tenzing norgay

incorrect cripple

[Leaping Lindner]

is #19 George Mallory?? If so their idea of successful and my idea of successful are pretty different

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is #19 George Mallory?? If so their idea of successful and my idea of successful are pretty different

LL

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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

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE

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