# | Which German battleship was scuttled in the River Plate in 1939? | Graf Spee | Bismark | Dreadnought | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Deutschland | Graf Spee
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1 | Which war lasted from 1899-1902? | Crimean War | Boer War | The Franco-Prussian War | The Balcan War | Zulu War | Boer War |
2 | What was Nelson's flagship called? | The Mary Rose | The Great Harry | The Victory | The Endeavour | The Ark Royal | The Victory |
3 | Where is Nelson's flagship preserved? | Dartmouth | Devonport | Plymouth | Portsmouth | Greenwich | Portsmouth |
4 | In what year was decimal currency introduced into Britain? | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1971 |
5 | How many kings named Edward have there been? | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 8 |
6 | Where were Nazi leaders tried for war crimes after World War II? | Magdeburg | Nuremburg | Heidelburg | Salsburg | Wurzburg | Nuremburg |
7 | Who was Henry VIII's first wife? | Jane Seymour | Catherine Howard | Catherine of Aragon | Anne Boleyn | Anne of Cleaves | Catherine of Aragon |
8 | In which year did King John sign the Magna Carta? | 1201 | 1205 | 1210 | 1215 | 1220 | 1215 |
9 | Which English king conquered Wales uniting it with England? | Henry VII | Henry V | Richard II | James I | Edward I | Edward I |
10 | Which English King defeated the French at Agincourt? | Henry V | Henry III | Richard II | Edward II | John | Henry V |
11 | Where was Joan of Arc Burned at the stake? | Paris | Rouen | Crecy | Agincourt | Lyons | Rouen |
12 | With which king was the monarchy restored in 1660? | James I | James II | Charles II | Charles I | William of Orange | Charles II |
13 | Which battle ended the Jacobite rebellion? | Sedgemoor | Prestonpans | Bannockburn | Culloden | Blenheim | Culloden |
14 | In which year was the Great Fire of London? | 1642 | 1658 | 1660 | 1665 | 1666 | 1666 |
15 | Who was Henry VIII's second wife? | Anne Boleyn | Catherine of Aragon | Catherine Parr | Catherine Howard | Anne of Cleaves | Anne Boleyn |
16 | For how long was Nelson Mandela imprisoned ? | 26 years | 27 years | 28 years | 29 years | 30 years | 27 years |
17 | In which year did Michael Foot resign as leader of the Labour Party? | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1983 |
18 | In which year was Martin Luther King assasssinated? | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1968 |
19 | To which political party did W.E. Gladstone belong? | Whig | Tory | Peelite | Conservative | Liberal | Liberal |
20 | Who was US president at the time of the Wall Street Crash? | Herbert Hoover | Woodrow Wilson | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt | Harry S. Truman | Herbert Hoover |
21 | Who summoned the Model Parliament? | Henry III | Edward I | Edward II | Richard I | John | Edward I |
22 | In which year was the gunpowder Plot? | 1603 | 1604 | 1605 | 1606 | 1607 | 1605 |
23 | Which king was executed after the English Civil War? | James I | James II | Edward VI | Charles I | Charles II | Charles I |
24 | Where was General Gordon killed? | Cairo | Alexandria | Aswan | Luxor | Khartoum | Khartoum |
25 | In which year was the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II? | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1953 |
26 | Who followed Queen Victoria to the throne? | Edward VI | Edward VII | Edward VIII | George V | George VI | Edward VII |
27 | In which country was the Boxer rebellion of 1900? | China | Malaya | Eire | Scotland | USA | China |
28 | What number president of the USA was Jimmy Carter? | 36th | 37th | 38th | 39th | 40th | 39th |
29 | In which year did Harold Wilson become Prime Minister? | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1964 |
30 | Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170? | Thomas A Beckett | Thomas Moore | Thomas Cranmer | Thomas Cromwell | Thomas Tank | Thomas A Beckett |
31 | Which invasion was given the codename Overlord? | the invasion of the Bay of Pigs | the Normandy invasion | The Norman invasion | the Galipoli invasion | The Suez invasion | the Normandy invasion |
32 | Which MP had 65 years of Parliamentary service? | Aneurin Bevan | Edward Heath | Winston Churchill | Michael Foot | William Pitt the Younger | Winston Churchill |
33 | Who was the first President of The USA? | Abraham Lincoln | Thomas Jefferson | Andrew Jackson | George Washington | John Adams | George Washington |
34 | Which king was defeated at Bannockburn? | Edward I | Henry III | James I | Charles II | Edward II | Edward II |
35 | Who led the first sea voyage around the World? | Ferdinand Magellan | Vasco Da Gama | Christopher Columbus | Sir Francis Drake | John Cabot | Ferdinand Magellan |
36 | In which battle was the charge of the Light Brigade? | The Battle of The Somme | The Battle of Balaclava | The Battle of Ypres | The Battle of Bannockburn | The Battle of Preston Pans | The Battle of Balaclava |
37 | When were women given the vote in Britain? | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1918 |
38 | When was Israel created? | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1948 |
39 | Who was the first man to reach the North Pole? | Sir Ernest Shackleton | Captain Scott | Captain Roald Amundsen | Admiral R. Byrd | Rear-Admiral Robert Peary | Rear-Admiral Robert Peary |
40 | In which city was the St. Valentine's day Massacre? | Chicago | New York | San Francisco | Detroit | Washington | Chicago |
41 | Who was the last English King to be killed in battle? | Harold | Edward III | William II | Edward I | Henry VII | Edward III |
42 | Which treaty was signed in 1919? | The Treaty of Rome | The treaty of Bruges | The Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Antwerp | The treaty of Utrecht | The Treaty of Versailles |
43 | Which king was nicknamed Longshanks? | James I | Henry III | William II | Edward I | Richard I | Edward I |
44 | Which monarch followed Henry VIII to the throne? | James I | Mary | Edward VI | Charles I | Elizabeth I | Edward VI |
45 | When was the Spanish Aramada Defeated? | 1588 | 1589 | 1590 | 1591 | 1592 | 1588 |
46 | Who did Henry VII defeat at the Battle of Bosworth? | Richard II | Richard III | Henry VI | John | Stephen | Richard III |
47 | On which Apollo mission did man first land on the Moon? | Apollo 9 | Apollo 10 | Apollo 11 | Apollo 12 | Apollo 13 | Apollo 11 |
48 | The invasion of which country began the 2nd World War? | Hungary | Czechoslovakia | Norway | Poland | Holland | Poland |
49 | In which 1st World war battle were tanks first used? | Marne | Ypres | Mons | Somme | Zeebrugge | Somme |
50 | Where was the first A-bomb exploded? | New Mexico | Texas | Australia | Christmas Island | Japan | New Mexico |
51 | Which was the first country to give women the vote? | England | New Zealand | USA | Sweden | Russia | New Zealand |
52 | In what year was VAT introduced into Britain? | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1973 |
53 | Where was Abraham Lincoln asssassinated? | The White House | The Pentagon | a baseball match | a theatre | his home | a theatre |
54 | Where was the formal German surrender after World War 2? | Versailles | Munich | Berlin | Paris | Reims | Reims |
55 | Which British Prime Minister was assassinated? | Spencer Perceval | George Canning | Viscount Goderich | Earl Grey | Viscount Melbourne | Spencer Perceval |
56 | Which American President signed the Salt 1 agreement? | J.F. Kennedy | Richard Nixon | L.B. Johnson | Ronald Reagan | George Bush | Richard Nixon |
57 | Who was Prime Minister when Edward VIII Abdicated the throne? | J. Ramsay MacDonald | A. Bonar Law | Stanley Baldwin | Neville Chamberlin | Clement Attlee | Stanley Baldwin |
58 | Which country was led to freedom by Sheik Mujibur Rahman? | Sri Lanka | Pakistan | Algeria | Bangladesh | Iran | Bangladesh |
59 | What country were the Martello towers built to defend against? | Spain | Germany | Holland | Russia | France | France |
60 | When was the first artificial satellite launched? | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1957 |
61 | When was the battle of Trafalgar? | 1804 | 1805 | 1806 | 1807 | 1808 | 1805 |
62 | How did William Rufus die? | with poison | with a spear | with an arrow | suicide | with a cannon ball | with an arrow |
63 | What were Corsairs? | horse riders | Indian tribe | soldiers | pirates | mountain dwellers | pirates |
64 | Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I? | Catherine Parr | Anne of Cleaves | Katherine of Aragon | Jane Seymore | Anne Boleyn | Anne Boleyn |
65 | When was the Berlin wall built? | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1961 |
66 | Who was Britain's first Prime Minister? | Earl of Wilmington | Sir Robert Walpole | Henry Pelham | Duke of Newcastle | Duke of Devonshire | Sir Robert Walpole |
67 | Who was Britain's Prime Minister after the 2nd World War? | Stanley Baldwin | Winston Churchill | Clement Atlee | Sir Anthony Eden | J. Ramsay MacDonald | Clement Atlee |
68 | Who was the last king of Scotland before the union with England? | Robert III | David II | Alexander II | James VI | Malcolm II | James VI |
69 | When was the secret vote introduced to Britain? | 1850 | 1864 | 1869 | 1870 | 1872 | 1872 |
70 | What was the first decimal coin to be issued in Britain? | 50p | 20p | 10p | 5p | 1p | 50p |
71 | When did the Titanic sink? | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1912 |
72 | What was the date of the battle of Waterloo? | 1813 | 1814 | 1815 | 1816 | 1817 | 1815 |
73 | Who was king of England at the start of World War 1? | Edward VI | Edward VII | George IV | George V | George VI | George V |
74 | Which British Sovereign had the longest reign? | Henry VIII | Richard II | George III | Elizabeth II | Victoria | Victoria |
75 | When was the British general strike? | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1926 |
76 | When were the Tolpuddle Martyrs deported? | 1833 | 1834 | 1835 | 1836 | 1837 | 1834 |
77 | When was the Suez Canal opened? | 1849 | 1859 | 1969 | 1879 | 1889 | 1869 |
78 | When was Tower Bridge in London opened? | 1864 | 1874 | 1884 | 1894 | 1904 | 1894 |
79 | Which island was awarded the George Cross for Gallantry? | Crete | Cyprus | Corsica | Sardinia | Malta | Malta |
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