Try your luck at answering these HISTORY questions

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Nicknamed 'Connie', what was the most popular commercial airliner in the 1950s?

2. The Dickin Medal, bearing the words 'We also serve' and 'For Gallantry', is awarded to which members of the armed forces in the UK?

3. Which part of India was occupied by the Japanese in WW II?

4. Which country sent its navy around the world to fight the Japanese in 1904?

5. The 'Tonton Macoute' were the dreaded paramilitary police in which country?

6. Between the years 1992 and 2010, in which country were most journalists killed?

7. The majority of immigrants to the USA between 1820 and 1900 came from which two countries?

8. Which maritime explorer gave the Pacific ocean its name?

9. Which two British aviators were the first to be able to say 'yesterday I was in the Americas, today I'm in Europe'?

10. Which country's flag, the oldest existing flag in the world, apparently fell out of the heavens during a battle on 15th June, 1219?

11. Which three letters replaced CQD?
    a. SOS,
    b. KGB,
    c. TNT,
    d. FYI

12. Majestic tea clippers brought tea 'all the way from China'. The first to arrive at the London docks commanded the best prices. One such race in 1866 between clippers with memorable names like Taeping, Ariel, Fiery Cross, Thermopylae, Sir Lancelot and Cutty Sark attracted considerable public attention. All these ships left Foochow at the end of May for the 16,000 mile journey to London. The Taeping was the first to arrive. How many days did it take ?
    a. 39 days,
    b. 99 days,
    c. 199 days,
    d. 299 days

13. What name was given to the first body of fleet footed professional constables formed in England in the 1750's?

ANSWERS

1. The Lockheed 'Constellation' or 'Super Constellation'

2. Animals

3. The Andaman Islands

4. Russia

5. Haiti

6. Iraq (source: CPJ 'Committee to Protect Journalists)

7. Ireland and Germany

8. Ferdinand Magellan (el mar Pacifico)

9. Alcock and Brown

10. Denmark (The Dannebrog)

11. a. SOS

12. b: 99 days

13. Bow Street Runners (slang name 'red breasts')

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Where was the armistice signed after the end of the war?

2. Who commanded the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland?

3. At which battle were the tanks first used?

4. Which British liner did a German U ? boat sink on May 5th 1915?

5. Which French hero of World War I was tried for treason after World War II?

6. Which German Military leader of World War I became President of Germany in 1925?

7. Where was the German fleet scuttled in 1919?

8. Who became German chief of staff in 1916 , directing the German war effort alongside Hindenburg?

9. At which battle was poison gas first used?

10. Which French general dictated the term of allied victory (World War I)? 

ANSWERS

1. Railway Carriage at Compiegne

2. John Jellicoe

3. Somme , 1916

4. Lusitania

5. Petain

6. Paul Von Hindenburg

7. Scapa Flow

8. Eric Ludendorff

9. Ypres, 1915

10. Ferdinand Foch

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Who became secretary general of the UN in 1961?

2. What year was the Arab Israeli six-day war?

3. Which English dramatist was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in 1967?

4. What was the name of the dog that found the missing football world cup in 1966?

5. Which literature prize for fiction was first awarded in 1969?

6. Which South African massacre took place on 21st march 1960?

7. In which city was Rudolph Nureyev dancing at the time of his defection to the west in 1961?

8. What took place on 8th august 1963 at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire?

9. Which coin was introduced in Britain in October 1969?

10. Who did john Kennedy defeat in the 1960 us presidential election 

11. Which Cheshire industrial town on the Manchester ship canal was designated a new town in 1964?

12. Which Argentinean revolutionary was killed in Bolivia in 1967?

13. Who was the labour chancellor of the exchequer between 64 - 67?

14. In 1964, which was the 1st pirate radio station to start broadcasting in Britain?

15. What year was prince Andrew born?

16. Who was the black Muslim leader murdered in February 1965?

17. Which controversial bill, sponsored by MP David Steele became leader in 1968?

18. Which British secretary of state for war resigned in 1963?

19. Which gamblers institution was legalised in may 1961?

20. ?I can?t let Maggie go? was a song used to advertise which consumer item?

ANSWERS

1. U Thant

2. 1967

3. Joe Orton

4. Pickles

5. The Booker Prize

6. Sharpsville

7. Paris

8. Great Train Robbery

9. 50p

10. Richard Nixon 

11. Runcorn

12. Che Guevara

13. Jim Callaghan

14. Radio Caroline

15. 1960

16. Malcolm X

17. Abortion

18. Profumo

19. Betting Shops

20. Nimble Bread

[THE FUGITIVE]

I?ll give you the date and some info you tell who was assassinated on that day
1) Nov 4th 1995 the assassin was Yigal Amir?

2) May 21st 1991, in Madras, Tamil terrorists murdered whom?

3) Aug 21st 1983 at manila Airport

4) Oct 6th 1981, in cairo by Muslim Fundamentalists

5) Mar 30th 1979, blown up by the INLA

6) May 9th 1978, Assassins were the Red brigade

7) June 5th 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel Los Angeles

Jan 30th 1948 by Nathuran Godse

9) Aug 20th 1940 an ice pick in Mexico city

10) May 11th 1812, Assassin was John bellingham

ANSWERS 

1) Yitzak Rabin

2) Rajiv Gandhi

3) Benigno Aquino

4) Anwar Sadat

5) Airey Neave

6) Aldo moro

7) Robert Kennedy

Mahatma Gandhi

9) Leon Trotsky

10) Spencer Percivel

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Who was assassinated in Dallas on 22 November 1963?

2. Which playwright was murdered in a Deptford tavern in 1593?

3. Which country?s Prime Minister was Olaf Palme, who was assassinated in 1986?

4. In what district of East London did Jack the Ripper prey on women?

5. Who had 7 members of a rival gang killed on St valentines day 1929?

6. Who wrote ?The murder of Roger Akroyd??

7. What relation was Marvin Gays assassin?

8. Which Shakespearean character is haunted by the ghost of his murdered father?

9. Who was the last woman to be executed in England?

10. Which country?s royal family was killed at Ekaterinburg? 

11. Henri Landrau killed a series of women in France in the early 20th century, what was his nickname?

12. Ethel Le Neve was which murderer?s secretary?

13. Who or what did Lindy Chamberlain claimed had kidnapped her child?

14. Christopher Craig shot a British Policeman in 1952, but who hung for the murder?

15. Which Nazi war criminal was tried and convicted for war crimes in 1961?

16. In cold blood was an account of the murder of the Clutter family in Kansas, who was the writer?

17. The film Summer of Sam released earlier this year is based on the story of which serial killer?

18. Which heiress did the Black Panther Donald Nielson murder?

19. Sharon Tate was murdered by members of the Charles Manson family, who was she married to at the time?

Answers

1. John F Kennedy

2. Christopher Marlowe

3. Sweden

4. Whitechappel

5. Al Capone

6. Agatha Christie

7. His father

8. Hamlet

9. Ruth Ellis

10. Russia

11. Bluebeard

12. Dr Crippen

13. Dingo

14. Derek Bentley

15. Adolph Eichman

16. Truman Capote

17. David Berkowitz

18. Leslie Whittle

19. Roman Polanski

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   Who was Leonid Brezhnev?s successor in 1984?

2.   Who was British Defence Secretary at the time of the Falklands war?

3.   What year did the Big Bang Liberalisation of the London Stock Exchange take place?

4.   What succeeded the British CSE and GCE in 1988?

5.   Which London market relocated to the Isle of Dogs in 1982?

6.   Which Russian word meaning ?Speaking Aloud? was a policy of Mikhail Gorbachev in order liberalise various aspects of Soviet life?

7.   What year was Satellite television introduced into Britain?

8.   Which 2 countries joined the EC in 1986?

9.   In which year did Burma change its name to Myanmar?

10.   Which year is associated with the Eurythmics song ?Sexcrime?? 

ANSWERS

1. Yuri Andropov

2. John Nott

3. 1986

4. GCSE

5. Billinsgate Fish Market

6. Glasnost

7. 1989

8. Portugal And Spain

9. 1989

10. 1984

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. In what year was the Easter Rising?

2. The English Pale surrounded which city?

3. In which century was the Battle of the Boyne?

4. The Irish Brigade fought in which 20th century civil war?

5. which member of the Irish Government lives in Phoenix Park ?

6. Brian Boru was the first man to hold what title?

7. Which famous Irish siege started on the 18 December 1688 with shutting of the gates and ended with breaking of the boon on the 28 July 1689?

8. Which Oliver Cromwell came to Ireland when? Was it 1625, 1650 or 1675

9. Phytophthora infetans, is the scientific name for what major cause of crisis in Ireland between 1800and 1900?

10. Which Irish President claimed to be a Cuban-American who played rugby for the Munster Provincial Team?

ANSWERS

1. April 1916

2. Dublin

3. 17th 1st July 1690

4. The Spanish Civil War

5. ?ras an Uachtar?in is the residence of the President of Ireland and is situated in Phoenix Park.

6. High King of Ireland

7. The Siege of Derry

8. Oliver Cromwell re-conquered Ireland in 1649-1653 on behalf of the English Commonwealth.

9. Potato Blight  was the cause of 'An Gorta Mor','the Grate Hunger' or the Famine

10. ?amon de Valera, born George de Valero (14 October 1882 ? 29 August 1975)De Valera was born in the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital in New York City in 1882 to an Irish mother; he stated that his parents, Catherine Coll de Valera Wheelwright, an immigrant from Bruree, County Limerick, and Juan Vivion de Valera, a Spanish-Cuban settler and sculptor, were married on 18 September 1881 at St. Patrick's Church located within the Greenville Section of Jersey City.

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Who conquered Greece in 336 BC at the head of a vast Macedonian Army?

2. Who was the father of Cleopatra?s son, Ptolomy XV?

3. Who did Rome fight in the Punic Wars?

4. Which roman emperor gave a consulship to his horse?

5. Which great Carthegian general crossed the Alps in 218?

6. Which country did Xerxes rule?

7. Which temple stands on the Acropolis in Athens?

8. Who was the first Christian Emperor of Rome and founder of Constantinople?

9. Which rival did Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon to fight?

10. Which religion was founded by Prince Guatama Siddhartha in the 6th century BC? 

ANSWERS

1. Alexander The Great (thanks to Andy Harron for correcting a previous error in this question)

2. Julius Caesar

3. Carthage

4. Caligula

5. Hannibal

6. Persia

7. Parthenon

8. Constantine The Great

9. Pompey

10. Buddhism

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. With his experiments using 'Magdeburg Hemispheres' in the 1650's, Otto von Guericke proved who doesn't abhor what?

2. What was the name of Picasso's famous painting which was an outcry against fachist aggression in Spain?

3. Which sad superlative does one associate with the death of Pte. Henry Gunther at 10.59 am?

4. The Celts believed that the major rivers in Europe were the result of what?

5. The death of which famous man does one associate with each of the following dates? 
    a. 21st October 1805 
    b. 28th June 1914 
    c. 30th January 1948 
    d. 16th Aug 1977 
    e. 14th April 1865 
    f. 21st January 1793 
    g. 6th June 1968 
    h. 5th March 1953

6. During the second world war in Germany it was against the law to give a horse which name?

7. Pope Gregory XIII celebrated the murder of an estimated 20,000 people with a 'Te deum' in Rome after the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. Which group of people were massacred?

8. Coins from which country were legal tender in the USA until 1857 and Upper Canada until 1860?

9. Why did Louis Washkansky make headlines around the world after the 3rd of December 1967?

10. What kind of abode did the German pedagogue Friedrich Froebel first establish in 1852 for cultivation and development?

ANSWERS

1. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum. First man to artificially create a vacuum, thus disproving the adage, "Nature abhors a vacuum"  from Galileo.

2. Guernica

3. Last allied soldier to die before the 11 am Armistace in WWI.

4. The gods urinating

5. Eight Answers:
    a. Lord Nelson 
    b. Archduke Franz Ferdinand 
    c. Mahatma Gandhi 
    d. Elvis 
    e. Abraham Lincoln 
    f. King Louis XVI 
    g. Sen Robert Kennedy 
    h. Stalin

6. Adolf

7. Huguenots. (French Calvinist protestants)

8. Spain.

9. First man to successfully undergo a heart transplantion.

10. A kindergarten (or kindergarden in English)

[THE FUGITIVE]

1.   Who was the Iron Chancellor who united Germany?

2.   Which Roman emperor sentenced St Peter to crucifixion?

3.   Name the German mayor of West Berlin who became internationally known during the Berlin Wall crisis?

4.   Who deposed Milton Obote and expelled the Asian community from his country?

5.   Norman Manley was Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1959 to 1962, his son became PM in 1972, name him?

6.   As dictator of Haiti he was known as Papa Doc, what was his name?

7.   Who was Secretary General of the UN from 1962 to 1971?

8.   Who was the leader of the Nationalist Congress party of India who was imprisoned by the British nine times?

9.   How did Heinrich Himmler meet his death?

10. What was British prime Minister Gladstone?s middle name? 

ANSWERS

1. Bismarck

2. Nero

3. Willy Brandt

4. Idi Amin

5. Michael Manley

6. Francois Duvalier

7. U Thant

8. Jawaharla Nehru

9. Suicide

10. Ewart

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Who was hit on the head by a falling apple and so discovered Gravity?

2. Who proposed his theory of Relativity?

3. Whose theory placed the sun at the centre of the solar system?

4. Who first developed the theory of Evolution by natural selection?

5. Who turned a telescope on the stars, saw sunspots, and spent his final years under house arrest?

6. Robert Oppenheimer is best remembered for his work on what?

7. Which metaphysician developed the theory of calculus at the same time as did Newton?

8. Who developed the modern system of classifying plants and animals?

9. Who discovered X-rays?

10. Who proposed the periodic table of chemical elements? 

ANSWERS

1. Issac Newton

2. Albert Einstein

3. Copernicus

4. Charles Darwin

5. Galileo

6. The Atomic Bomb

7. Leibniz

8. Linnaeus

9. Roentgen

10. Mendelev

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. For what event in history is baker Thomas Farynor known?

2. What nationality was Christopher Columbus?

3. Who is credited with introducing the Red Rose to represent The Labour Party?

4. Who in 1961 made the first space flight?

5. Who was the American President when the Berlin Wall was constructed?

6. What was the Roman name for Scotland?

7. What was the first country to issue postage stamps?

8. What famous building did John Nash rebuild in 1825?

9. Who was the first American President to resign from office?

10. Which country has the world's oldest flag?

11. Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

12. How many Tolpuddle Martyrs were there?

13. Which English king was killed at the Battle Of Bosworth Field?

14. In which decade did the Berlin airlift begin?

15. What was the hot news of 1666?

16. Stanley Baldwin was the only prime minister during the reign of which king?

17. Who was Henry VIII?s second wife?

18. Winston Churchill won the Nobel Peace Prize. True or false?

19. During which decade did all women first get the vote in the UK ?

20. Who took the throne after Queen Victoria? 

ANSWERS

1. The Great Fire Of London

2. Italian

3. Peter Mandelsson

4. Yuri Gagarin

5. John F Kennedy

6. Caledonia

7. Great Britain

8. Buckingham Palace

9. Richard Nixon

10. Denmark

11. Michelangelo

12. Six

13. Richard III

14. 1940s (1948)

15. Great Fire Of London

16. Edward VIII

17. Anne Boleyn

18. False, he won the Nobel Literature Prize.

19. 1920s  (1928)

20. Edward VII

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. In December 1773 in America, the cargoes of three ships were thrown overboard by protestors disguised as red Indians. What is the popular name for this event?

2. Who was responsible for reducing the Crimean war death rate from 42% to 2%?

3. What material was banned after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion until 1782?

4. After the invasion of Poland, which was the next country to be invaded by the Germans in World War II?

5. Who crowned napoleon Bonaparte emperor in 1804?

6. Which battle of 1066 shares its name with a premier league football ground?

7. What country declared war on both Germany and the allies in world war II ?

8. Which country played host to the battle Of Waterloo?

9. The development of what in World War II was Code-named ?the Manhattan project??

10. At which location was the Magna Carta signed?

11. Which French revolutionary was nicknamed "The Sea Green Incorruptible"?

12. Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution?

13. Which earl was known as "The Kingmaker" during the War of the Roses?

14. Which country presented the Statue of Liberty to the U.S.A?

15. Who was the British Prime Minister at the start of the 20th century?

16. Which Cardinal gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII?

17. Who did Henry Stanley meet at Ujiji on 10th November 1871?

18. Warren Hastings was the first governor-general of which country?

19. Which King had been Prince of Wales for 60 years before his Coronation?

20. Which is the oldest university in England? 

ANSWERS

1. The Boston Tea Party

2. Florence Nightingale

3. Tartan

4. Denmark

5. He Crowned Himself

6. Stamford Bridge

7. Italy

8. Belgium

9. The Atom Bomb

10. Runnymede

11. Robespierre

12. Culloden

13. Earl of Warwick

14. France

15. Lord Salisbury

16. Cardinal Wolsey

17. Dr. Livingstone

18. India

19. Edward VII

20. Oxford University

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Where did the notorious murderer Michael Ryan live?

2. Who had a horse called Beaucephalus?

3. Name the 2 countries that joined the EEC at the same time as Britain?

4. Who did Jimmy Carter succeed as President of the United States?

5. The Gossamer Albatross achieved which first in 1979?

6. Name the Irish swimmer who won 3 gold medals in the 1996 Olympics?

7. Which electrician won the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize?

8. In what year did the Korean war end?

9. Who was the president at the onset of the American Civil War?

10. Which ex-statesman, born in Umtata, in 1918, was imprisoned in Robben Island Prison, Cape Town from 1962 to 1990? 

ANSWERS

1. Hungerford

2. Alexander The Great

3. Denmark & Eire (Now Republic Of Ireland)

4. Gerald Ford

5. 1st Human Powered Aircraft To Cross The English Channel

6. Michelle Smith

7. Lech Walesa

8. 1953

9. Abraham Lincoln

10. Nelson Mandela

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. With his experiments using 'Magdeburg Hemispheres' in the 1650's, Otto von Guericke proved who doesn't abhor what?

2. What was the name of Picasso's famous painting which was an outcry against fachist aggression in Spain?

3. Which sad superlative does one associate with the death of Pte. Henry Gunther at 10.59 am?

4. The Celts believed that the major rivers in Europe were the result of what?

5. The death of which famous man does one associate with each of the following dates? 
    a. 21st October 1805 
    b. 28th June 1914 
    c. 30th January 1948 
    d. 16th Aug 1977 
    e. 14th April 1865 
    f. 21st January 1793 
    g. 6th June 1968 
    h. 5th March 1953

6. During the second world war in Germany it was against the law to give a horse which name?

7. Pope Gregory XIII celebrated the murder of an estimated 20,000 people with a 'Te deum' in Rome after the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572. Which group of people were massacred?

8. Coins from which country were legal tender in the USA until 1857 and Upper Canada until 1860?

9. Why did Louis Washkansky make headlines around the world after the 3rd of December 1967?

10. What kind of abode did the German pedagogue Friedrich Froebel first establish in 1852 for cultivation and development?

ANSWERS

1. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum. First man to artificially create a vacuum, thus disproving the adage, "Nature abhors a vacuum"  from Galileo.

2. Guernica

3. Last allied soldier to die before the 11 am Armistace in WWI.

4. The gods urinating

5. Eight Answers:
    a. Lord Nelson 
    b. Archduke Franz Ferdinand 
    c. Mahatma Gandhi 
    d. Elvis 
    e. Abraham Lincoln 
    f. King Louis XVI 
    g. Sen Robert Kennedy 
    h. Stalin

6. Adolf

7. Huguenots. (French Calvinist protestants)

8. Spain.

9. First man to successfully undergo a heart transplantion.

10. A kindergarten (or kindergarden in English)