HISTORY QUIZ NO.76

[magpie in the 80's]

1 What was the name for the multi-stranded knotted rope used for flogging in days gone by?
CAT O'NINE TAILS
2 Which former country was originally called The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?
YUGOSLAVIA
3 The Knesset is the legislature of which country?
ISRAEL
4 at which grace-and-favour residence was John Prescott infamously photographed playing croquet?
DORNEYWOOD
5 Who is the Prime Minister of Russia?
VLADIMIR PUTIN
6 According to legend, how did Alfred the Great upset a swineherder’s wife while worrying about how to deal with the invading Danes?
HE BURNT HER COOKS
7 Who said “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” at Ujiji?
HENRY MORTON STANLEY
8 Appointed in 1721, who is held to be the first man to be Prime Minister of the UK?
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
9 What name was given to the women who campaigned to have the vote in the first two decades of the 20th century?
SUFFRAGETTES
10 Who had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306?
ROBERT THE BRUCE
11 Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
12 Who led the Luftwaffe in the Second World War?
HERMAN GOERING
13 How many MPs are there in the House of Commons?
650
14 The Battle of Edgehill was the first and the Battle of Worcester the last of which conflict?
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
15 As well as being the first woman mayor in England, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify in which profession?
AS A DOCTOR
16 What word denoted the new policy of openness adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s government in the Soviet Union?
GLASNOT
17 How was a fishing dispute between Britain and Iceland in the Sixties and Seventies nicknamed?
THE COD WAR
18 Who led the Seventh Cavalry to its doom at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
19 What aviation first was performed by Ellen Church in 1930?
FIRST AIR HOSTESS
20 Famed for her eloquence, beauty and learning, who was the astronomer and mathematician murdered by a mob set on her by the Bishop of Alexandria?
HYPATIA

[Rik E Boy]

2. Yugoslavia
5. Vladimir Putin still?
7. Stanley
8. William Pitt
9. Suffrajettes (sp?)
11. Waterloo
12 Herman Goring
16 Glasnost
18 Custer

regards,

REB

[magpie in the 80's]

2. Yugoslavia
5. Vladimir Putin still?
7. Stanley
8. William Pitt
9. Suffrajettes (sp?)
11. Waterloo
12 Herman Goring
16 Glasnost
18 Custer

regards,

REB

ALL OTHERS CORRECT REB

[BZB27]

19. first woman to fly an aircraft

[magpie in the 80's]

19. first woman to fly an aircraft

close but not right bray

[FlyingHigh]

1/ Cat o' nine tails

[magpie in the 80's]

1/ Cat o' nine tails

[FattyLumpkin]

3. Israel
17. The Cod War

[magpie in the 80's]

3. Israel
17. The Cod War

[DOC]

10 = Robert the Bruce
14 = 100 years war

[magpie in the 80's]

10 = Robert the Bruce
14 = 100 years war

[DOC]

14 War of the roses

[magpie in the 80's]

14 War of the roses

[FattyLumpkin]

19. first women aviator to die in plane crash?

[magpie in the 80's]

19. first women aviator to die in plane crash?

nup FL
clue: Kate Middleton's mum was one

[magpie in the 80's]

1 What was the name for the multi-stranded knotted rope used for flogging in days gone by?
CAT O'NINE TAILS
2 Which former country was originally called The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?
YUGOSLAVIA
3 The Knesset is the legislature of which country?
ISRAEL
4 at which grace-and-favour residence was John Prescott infamously photographed playing croquet?
DORNEYWOOD
5 Who is the Prime Minister of Russia?
VLADIMIR PUTIN
6 According to legend, how did Alfred the Great upset a swineherder’s wife while worrying about how to deal with the invading Danes?
HE BURNT HER COOKS
7 Who said “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” at Ujiji?
HENRY MORTON STANLEY
8 Appointed in 1721, who is held to be the first man to be Prime Minister of the UK?
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
9 What name was given to the women who campaigned to have the vote in the first two decades of the 20th century?
SUFFRAGETTES
10 Who had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306?
ROBERT THE BRUCE
11 Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?
BATTLE OF WATERLOO
12 Who led the Luftwaffe in the Second World War?
HERMAN GOERING
13 How many MPs are there in the House of Commons?
650
14 The Battle of Edgehill was the first and the Battle of Worcester the last of which conflict?
ENGLISH CIVIL WAR
15 As well as being the first woman mayor in England, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman to qualify in which profession?
AS A DOCTOR
16 What word denoted the new policy of openness adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s government in the Soviet Union?
GLASNOT
17 How was a fishing dispute between Britain and Iceland in the Sixties and Seventies nicknamed?
THE COD WAR
18 Who led the Seventh Cavalry to its doom at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER
19 What aviation first was performed by Ellen Church in 1930?
FIRST AIR HOSTESS
20 Famed for her eloquence, beauty and learning, who was the astronomer and mathematician murdered by a mob set on her by the Bishop of Alexandria?
HYPATIA

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE

END OF QUIZ