History Quiz Questions I
- Offa was King of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom, from 757 until his death in July 796?
- Who was the only British Prime Minister to speak English as a second language?
- Who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape to the Isle of Skye by disguising him as her Irish maid?
- From 794 through to 1868, which city was the capital of Japan?
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn was fought in which American state?
- Why is Brooklyn born Jennie Jerome famous?
- The Fighting Temeraire is a famous painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner; in which battle did HMS Temeraire distinguish herself?
- Who led the English forces that defeated the Scottish at the Battle of Dunbar?
- Historically, French kings have been crowned in which of its city's cathedral?
- We all know the year was 1066, but in which month was the Battle of Hastings fought? And in modern history, which month saw the 1969 moon landing?
- Which king died from a lung infection, aged 15, in 1553?
- Name the first significant battle in the Jacobite Rising of 1745?
- In the early part of the 18th Century where did public executions in London take place?
- In late 14th century England, which sect led by John Wycliffe began questioning the practices and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church?
- Which king ruled England from 1016 to 1035?
Answers:
- Mercia
- David Lloyd George (Prime Minister 1916 - 1922)
- Flora MacDonald
- Kyoto
- Montana (1876)
- Mother of Sir Winston Chruchill
- Battle of Trafalgar (see footnote)
- Oliver Cromwell (1650)
- Reims
- October. July (1969).
- Edward VI
- The Battle of Prestonpans
- Tyburn
- Lollards
- King Cnut
History Quiz Questions II
- Which 20th century Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician was assassination in August 1922?
- Who declared: 'I am more afraid of the bones of the father dead, than of the living son; and, by all the saints, it was more difficult to get a half a foot of the land from the old king than a whole kingdom from the son!'?
- Which 1739 to 1748 historical conflict between Britain and Spain is today known by the name first coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858?
- Berlin became the capital of the which kingdom in 1701?
- How did Napoleonic French soldier Pierre-Francois Bouchard make a name for himself in July 1799?
- Whose book, Prayers or Meditations, became the first book published by an English queen under her own name?
- What name was given to the rule by the British in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947?
- Which country defeated Russia in a 1904 to 1905 war?
- In the mid-18th century what were the Oratorical Hall, Middlesex Forum, and the University for Rational Amusements?
- What name was given to the English Parliament after Colonel Thomas Pride purged the Long Parliament in 1648?
- Who was the British Prime Minister at the time of the French Revolution?
- The peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom was signed in which Belgian city?
- From the late 11th to the beginning of the 13th century, the Domesday Book was kept at the royal Treasury in which city?
- Lady Jane Grey (often known as the Nine Days Queen) was the great-granddaughter of which English king?
- In 1936, 100,000 people including Winston Churchill went to Sydenham Hill to watch the blaze and final destruction of which famous building?
Answers:
- Michael Collins
- Robert the Bruce (with reference to Edward I and his son Edward II)
- The War of Jenkins' Ear
- Prussia
- He found the Rosetta Stone
- Catherine Parr's
- The British Raj
- Japan
- Debating Societies
- The Rump Parliament
- William Pitt the Younger (PM in 1783 at the age of 24, and left office in 1801)
- Ghent (called the Treaty of Ghent)
- Winchester
- Henry VII
- The Crystal Palace
History Fact: The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) saw Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeat a combined fleet of the French and Spanish Navies in the Napoleonic Wars off the southwest coast of Spain. Twenty-seven British ships (no losses!) defeated thirty-three Franco-Spanish ships (22 losses) under French Admiral Villeneuve. Nelson's overwhelming triumph ensured Britain's protection from invasion for the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars.