Try your luck at answering these HISTORY questions

[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. Francois Mitterand abolished which form of capital punishment?

2. Who succeeded Brezhnev as Soviet premier?

3. What colour wedding gown, veil and train did Paula Yates wear for her wedding to Bob Geldof?

4. In which year did the ?1 note cease to be legal tender in England?

5. In which country was the first permanent bungee jumping site situated?

6. Which British football club became the first to install an artificial pitch?

7. What was the name of the German teenager who landed is plane in Red Square in 1987?

8. Which kind of automobile first rolled off the line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland in 1981?

9. Which country won the first Rugby Union World Cup?

10. What was the name of the intruder found in the Queens bedroom in 1982? 

Answers

1. Guillotine

2. Andropov

3. Red / Scarlet

4. 1988

5. New Zealand

6. Queens Park Rangers

7. Mathias Rust

8. DeLorean DMC-12

9. New Zealand

10. Michael Fagin

[THE FUGITIVE]

1. Emily Davison was hit by a horse and died, what cause was she trying to promote?

2. Who were the British Empire's original allies in WW1?

3. Where was Hitler when he wrote Mein Kampf?

4. What was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki?

5. The Eastern region of Nigeria declared Independence in 1968 but was united again in 1970, what was it known as?

6. Under which name do we more commonly know Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov?

7. What popular name was given to the European recovery programme after WWII?

8. Which English speaking country gave women the vote in 1901?

9. The final section of the trans Siberian railway was completed in which year?

10. Britain?s war minister appeared on the famous posters for recruitment for WWI, who was he? 

ANSWERS

1. Suffragettes

2. Russia & France

3. In Jail

4. Fat man

5. Biafra

6. Lenin

7. Marshall Plan

8. Australia

9. 1917

10. Lord Kitchener