Dates Quiz - 'Quiz Questions About Historical Dates'

Quiz

1. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during which decade?
2. Who was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in July 796?
3. Which famous battle took place on 22 July 1298?
4. How old was Neil Armstrong when the inventor of powered flight Orville Wright died: (a) 1 years old, (b) 7 years old, (c) 17 years old?
5. In which year did the final Viking attack on England come?






6. In which year was Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot discovered?
7. Which English king died in July 1307?
8. How many years seperate the Battle of Banockburn and the Battle of Agincourt?
9. In which year did the English Civil War start - it was 39 years after the death of Queen Elizabeth I?
10. Which year saw the death of Winston Churchill?
11. In which year did President Lincoln deliver the famous Gettysburg Address?
12. In which country did a period of political and social revolution start in 1917?
13. The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April in which year?
14. Outlaws Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid were killed by soldiers in Bolivia in which year: (a) 1868, (b) 1888, or (c) 1908?
15. What event happened on Dec. 7, 1941?
16. The very first episode of 'Coronation Street', was originally broadcast on December of which year?
17. In which year did Nelson deafeat the French and Spanish navies at The Battle of Trafalgar?
18. In which year was John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, assassinated?
19. The 9/11 terrorist attacks happened in which year?
20. In which year did Queen Victoria die?

Answers:

1. 1930s
2. Offa
3. The Battle of Falkirk
4. (c) 17 years old (the date was 1948)
5. 1066 (Harald Hardrad lost to English king, Harold Godwinson, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge))
6. 1605
7. Edward I
8. 101 years (1314 and 1415)
9. 1642
10. 1965
11. 1863
12. Russia
13. 1912
14. 1908
15. Pearl Harbor
16. 1960
17. 1805






18. 1963
19. 2001
20. 1901