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Questions I
- Which Portuguese-born navigator was the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean?
- Which historical figure is widely regarded as the greatest of all the Anglo-Saxon scholars?
- What disease killed thousands of people in Glasgow in 1832?
- Which killer was also known as 'The Whitechapel Murderer'?
- In which year was the Wall Street Crash?
- The Battle of Balaclava is a famous battle in which war?
- In which French city was Joan of Arc put to death?
- Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover?
- In which century was The Black Death?
- Which American outlaw was the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang?
Answers:
- Ferdinand Magellan
- The Venerable Bede
- Cholera
- Jack the Ripper
- 1929
- The Crimean
- Rouen
- Queen Victoria
- Fourteenth
- Jesse James
Questions II
- In which military campaign did Lewis Halliday and Basil Guy win Victoria Crosses in 1900?
- Who led a band of abolitionists that seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October 1859?
- Name the second wife of Henry VIII?
- In which century did Italian friar Thomas Aquinas live?
- Which English philosopher, regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers, was known as the Father of Classical Liberalism?
- In which decade did compulsory driving testing begin?
- Which German city endured the worst bombing of World War Two in February 1945?
- Robert Curthose was the son of which king?
- Who was king before Queen Victoria?
- Which Empire declared war on Russia in October 1853, suffering a defeat that gave Russia control of the Black Sea?
- Which Roman road stretched 220 miles from Exeter to Lincoln?
- Which king met with the rebels of the Peasant's Revolt at Smithfield in 1381?
- What was discovered in 1799 by Pierre-François Bouchard, a Napoleonic soldier?
- Which castle in Gloucestershire is believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327?
- Who was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover?
Answers:
- The Boxer Rebellion
- John Brown
- Anne Boleyn
- Thirteenth
- John Locke
- 1930s (1935)
- Dresden
- William the Conqueror
- William IV
- The Ottoman Empire
- Fosse Way
- Richard II
- The Rosetta Stone
- Berkeley castle
- Queen Victoria
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> Kings and Queens Quiz
> World War Two Quiz
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