Mainly historical questions
1. Who ruled England from 1239 until 1307?
2. Operation Gomorrah in the second world war was the bombing of which city?
3. Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 was launched from which cosmodrome?
4. Giuseppe Farina won the first world drivers’ championship in what make of car?
5. Who wrote The Descent of Man?
6. What do the 3rd Earl of Bute, George Grenville and the Earl of Chatham all have in common?
7. What was Virginia Woolf’s real first name?
8. From 1752 until 1855 which language were English passports written in?
9. Who was in charge of RBS. bank at the start of the 2008 banking crisis?
10. What was the former name of Tokyo in the 1600s?
11. What place in Japanese military history has Hiroo Onoda?
12. Which title was held by William 4th before he became king?
13. Give one of the two institutions that were established following the Bretton Woods conference in 1944?
14. In which year was cigarette advertising banned on TV?
15. Who was king of England from 1377 to 1399?
16. Name the three countries that declared war on Germany on the same date as the
UK in 1939?
17. Who was the VW Beetle designed by (full name)?
18. Which republic was founded by Marinus the Dalmatian in 301 AD?
19. Which European country changed driving on the left to the right over night in 1967?
20. Which treaty bought the American war of independence to an end?
21. Which English explorer died in 1611 after being set adrift by his mutinous crew?
22. Which poet wrote a little learning is a dangerous thing?
23. Who was born in Temujin in 1162?
24. Who discovered the Amazon, which was originally named after him?
25. Who was the first secretary general of the UN?
26. What was founded in 1897 in stony creek Canada?
27. The first university to grant degrees was established in 1088 in which city?
28. Barbara Villiers was the favourite mistress of which English king?
29. Against which country were the Doolittle raids carried out in the second world war?
30. In which decade was the Tay Bridge disaster?
Answers
1. Edward 1 (longshanks)
2. Hamburg
3. Baikonur Cosmodrome
4. Alfa Romeo
5. Charles Darwin
6. They were all prime ministers
7. Adeline
8. French
9. Fred Goodwin
10. EDO
11. He continued to fight for Japan in the WW11 ( until 1974)
12. Duke of Clarence
13. IMF & World bank
14. 1965
15. Richard 2nd
16. France .Australia, New Zealand
17. Ferdinand Porsche
18. San Marino
19. Sweden
20. Treaty of Paris
21. Henry Hudson
22. Alexander Pope
23. Genghis Khan
24. Francisco de Orellana
25. Trygve Lie
26. Women’s Institute
27. Bologna
28. Charles 2nd
29. Japan (the first time bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier)
30. 1870s (1879)
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