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20TH Century Quiz

1.  Which disease killed between 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919?
The Spanish Flu

2.  Who was British Prime Minister when man first landed on the moon?
Harold Wilson

3.  Who created panic in 1938, when his radio broadcast of "The War of The Worlds" was believed to be true?
Orson Welles

4.  Which year saw the Cuban missile crisis, the Beatles' first record and the death of Marilyn Monroe?
1962

5.  In 1953, Mount Everest was climbed for the first time by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal - which country's flag was first raised on Everest?
The United Kingdom's (because it was a British expedition led by John Hunt (later Lord Hunt))

6.  Which year saw both the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters?
1986

7.  What was the name of the first artificial Earth satellite which the Soviet Union launched into low Earth orbit in 1957?
Sputnik 1

8.  Which decade saw the release of the first feature-length animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
1930s (1937)

9.  In which American state is Mount St. Helens, which erupted in 1980?
Washington

10.  In what year was London due to host the Olympic Games, but couldn't because of the Second World War?
1944

11.  In 1924, the death of Vladimir Lenin triggered a power struggle between Joseph Stalin and which other politician?
Leon Trotsky

12.  Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Conservative Party Conference, and a bonus point for the year?
The Grand Hotel - 1984

13.  Which year in the 70’saw The Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War?
1975

14.  In which county was 1963’s Great Train Robbery?
Buckinghamshire

15.  Name the ship which in April 1912, became famous for rescuing 700 odd survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean?
RMS Carpathia

16.  Britain’s first credit card was introduced in 1966. Can you name it?
Barclaycard

17.  In August 1966, the Beatles famously gave their last full public concert at Candlestick Park in which city?
San Francisco

18.  What was the secret code name for the SAS operation at London’s Iranian Embassy in 1980?
Operation Nimrod

19.  In 1990, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web whilst working for CERN in which country?
Switzerland

20.  What year did the Queen describe as being her “annus horribilis”?
1992

 

20TH Century Quiz

1.  Which disease killed between 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919?

2.  Who was British Prime Minister when man first landed on the moon?

3.  Who created panic in 1938, when his radio broadcast of "The War of The Worlds" was believed to be true?

4.  Which year saw the Cuban missile crisis, the Beatles' first record and the death of Marilyn Monroe?

5.  In 1953, Mount Everest was climbed for the first time by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal - which country's flag was first raised on Everest?

6.  Which year saw both the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters?

7.  What was the name of the first artificial Earth satellite which the Soviet Union launched into low Earth orbit in 1957?

8.  Which decade saw the release of the first feature-length animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

9.  In which American state is Mount St. Helens, which erupted in 1980?

10.  In what year was London due to host the Olympic Games, but couldn't because of the Second World War?

11.  In 1924, the death of Vladimir Lenin triggered a power struggle between Joseph Stalin and which other politician?

12.  Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Conservative Party Conference, and a bonus point for the year?

13.  Which year in the 70’saw The Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War?

14.  In which county was 1963’s Great Train Robbery?

15.  Name the ship which in April 1912, became famous for rescuing 700 odd survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean?

16.  Britain’s first credit card was introduced in 1966. Can you name it?

17.  In August 1966, the Beatles famously gave their last full public concert at Candlestick Park in which city?

18.  What was the secret code name for the SAS operation at London’s Iranian Embassy in 1980?

19.  In 1990, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web whilst working for CERN in which country?

20.  What year did the Queen describe as being her “annus horribilis”?



 

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19TH Century Quiz

1.  In which decade was the Irish Potato Famine, was it the 1820’s, 1840’s or 1860’s?
1840s (1845 to 1849)

2.  Now moored at Greenwich, which famous tea clipper was launched in 1869?
The Cutty Sark

3.  After taking a friend's family to a painting exhibition on 11 May 1812, John Bellingham remarked that he had some business to attend to.  He then assassinated whom?
British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

4.  What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?
Dynamite

5.  Who headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal in 1807?
William Wilberforce

6.  Which island was the place of imprisonment of Napoleon from 1815 to his death in 1821?
Saint Helena

7. In the 1850s Henry Bessemer invented the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of what from molten pig iron?
Steel - The Bessemer Process was before the development of the open-hearth furnace.

8. In 1851, The Great Exhibition in London was held in a special building given what nickname? 
The Crystal Palace

9.  The 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade occurred in which battle? And which officer led the charge? Point for each
Battle of Balaclava. Led by Lord Cardigan

10.  Which yacht race was first considered to be staged in 1851 around the Isle of Wight?
America’s Cup.

11.  Lieutenants John Chard and Gonville Bromhead led the British in defending the garrison situated where in 1879?
Rorke’s Drift

12.  In which decade of the nineteenth century did Charles Dickens publish The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield??
1840’s

13.  Who served as flag captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805?
(Sir) Thomas Hardy

14.  Who in 1844 transmitted the first message by telegraph?
Samuel Morse

15.  Charles Darwin published which book in 1859?
On the Origin of Species

16.  Who assassinated President Lincoln in 1865?
John Wilkes Booth

17. In 1893, which country became the world's first to give women the vote?
New Zealand

18.  Which military award was first introduced in 1856?
Victoria Cross

19.  The American Civil War ended in April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to which Union General at the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
Ulysses S. Grant

20.  In which decade was The Slavery Abolition Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom?
1830s (1833)
 

19TH Century Quiz

1.  In which decade was the Irish Potato Famine, was it the 1820’s, 1840’s or 1860’s?

2.  Now moored at Greenwich, which famous tea clipper was launched in 1869?

3.  After taking a friend's family to a painting exhibition on 11 May 1812, John Bellingham remarked that he had some business to attend to.  He then assassinated whom?

4.  What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?

5.  Who headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal in 1807?

6.  Which island was the place of imprisonment of Napoleon from 1815 to his death in 1821?

7. In the 1850s Henry Bessemer invented the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of what from molten pig iron?

8. In 1851, The Great Exhibition in London was held in a special building given what nickname? 

9.  The 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade occurred in which battle? And which officer led the charge? Point for each

10.  Which yacht race was first considered to be staged in 1851 around the Isle of Wight?

11.  Lieutenants John Chard and Gonville Bromhead led the British in defending the garrison situated where in 1879?

12.  In which decade of the nineteenth century did Charles Dickens publish The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield??

13.  Who served as flag captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805?

14.  Who in 1844 transmitted the first message by telegraph?

15.  Charles Darwin published which book in 1859?

16.  Who assassinated President Lincoln in 1865?

17. In 1893, which country became the world's first to give women the vote?

18.  Which military award was first introduced in 1856?

19.  The American Civil War ended in April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to which Union General at the Battle of Appomattox Court House?

20.  In which decade was The Slavery Abolition Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom?


 

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18th Century Quiz

1.  What killed roughly 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century before Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine in 1796?
Smallpox

2.  Why did Britain lose 11 days in 1752?
The British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calendar (from 3 September to 13 September were dates lost in 1752)

3. Who was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst on 2 May 1729 in modern-day Poland?
Catherine the Great (or Catherine II)

4.  The Reign of Terror was the name given to the period involving numerous massacres and public executions in which Revolution?
French Revolution

5.  What did William Herschel discover from the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath in 1781?
The planet Uranus

6.  Which North American city situated in Louisiana was founded in 1718 by the French?
New Orleans

7.  Captain James Cook was killed on 14 February 1779 in which present day island?
Hawaii

8.  Joseph Priestley discovered "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, which later became known as what?
Oxygen

9.  What was discovered by Napoleon's troops in 1799 during the invasion of Egypt?
Rosetta Stone

10. Which song was set to a traditional tune in 1799, with the text written by Robert Burns in 1788?
Auld Lang Syne

11.  In 1793 which queen is beheaded by guillotine?
Marie Antoinette

12.  In 1719 Daniel Defoe writes which book, sometimes considered the first English-language novel?
Robinson Crusoe

13. Infamous Pirate Blackbeard, was killed by the Royal Navy in 1718. What was his real name?
Edward Teach

14. What was first published in Edinburgh, as three volumes between 1768 and 1771?
Encyclopaedia Britannica

15.  In which Portuguese city did a massive earthquake kill up to 100,000 people in 1755?
Lisbon

16. What unusual name was given to the 1739 war in the Caribbean between Great Britain and Spain? 
War of Jenkins' Ear

17.  The Royal Crescent is a famous row of 30 terraced houses designed by John Wood and built in which city in Somerset between 1767 and 1774?
Bath

18.  Which British horse race, originally referred to as "A Sweepstake of 25 Guineas", had its title changed to what at a dinner party held in 1778 at the Red Lion Inn in Doncaster?
St Leger

19.  Historians generally consider whom, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first British prime minister?
Robert Walpole

20.  What invention by James Hargreaves in 1764 is said  to have brought on the Industrial Revolution?
Spinning jenny


 

zico wrote: ↑31 Oct 2025, 09:23

Mike Oxsaw" wrote: ↑31 Oct 2025, 05:48 17 was interesting - for me, at least.

I'd always believed that the term "Royal Oak" was derived from the/a king claiming them all (oak trees) for the navy's ships, in order to prevent the locals chopping them down for furniture and firewood.

Never too old to learn something new, eh?

 

Quite a story

https://bitaboutbritain.com/why-467-pub ... royal-oak/

18th Century Quiz

1.  What killed roughly 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century before Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine in 1796?

2.  Why did Britain lose 11 days in 1752?

3. Who was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst on 2 May 1729 in modern-day Poland?

4.  The Reign of Terror was the name given to the period involving numerous massacres and public executions in which Revolution?

5.  What did William Herschel discover from the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath in 1781?

6.  Which North American city situated in Louisiana was founded in 1718 by the French?

7.  Captain James Cook was killed on 14 February 1779 in which present day island?

8.  Joseph Priestley discovered "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, which later became known as what?

9.  What was discovered by Napoleon's troops in 1799 during the invasion of Egypt?

10. Which song was set to a traditional tune in 1799, with the text written by Robert Burns in 1788?

11.  In 1793 which queen is beheaded by guillotine?

12.  In 1719 Daniel Defoe writes which book, sometimes considered the first English-language novel?

13. Infamous Pirate Blackbeard, was killed by the Royal Navy in 1718, What was his real name?

14. What was first published in Edinburgh, as three volumes between 1768 and 1771?

15.  In which Portuguese city did a massive earthquake kill up to 100,000 people in 1755?

16. What unusual name was given to the 1739 war in the Caribbean between Great Britain and Spain? 

17.  The Royal Crescent is a famous row of 30 terraced houses designed by John Wood and built in which city in Somerset between 1767 and 1774?

18.  Which British horse race, originally referred to as "A Sweepstake of 25 Guineas", had its title changed to what at a dinner party held in 1778 at the Red Lion Inn in Doncaster?

19.  Historians generally consider whom, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first British prime minister?

20.  What invention by James Hargreaves in 1764 is said to have brought on the Industrial Revolution?
 

Mike Oxsaw" wrote: ↑31 Oct 2025, 05:48 17 was interesting - for me, at least.

I'd always believed that the term "Royal Oak" was derived from the/a king claiming them all (oak trees) for the navy's ships, in order to prevent the locals chopping them down for furniture and firewood.

Never too old to learn something new, eh?

 

17 was interesting - for me, at least.

I'd always believed that the term "Royal Oak" was derived from the/a king claiming them all (oak trees) for the navy's ships, in order to prevent the locals chopping them down for furniture and firewood.

Never too old to learn something new, eh?

A lousy 9 for me today.

Guess the' before my time' excuse wont cut it?


Cheers Zico.

16 today thanks zico

12 Thanks Zico 

16 Thanks, Zico,

A bit easier than yesterday, but although I knew you wanted Dom Perignon as the answer to who was credited with the invention of Champagne, the pedant in me thought the question should have been who have been wrongly credited with the invention of Champagne?

Ironically, Brother Dom spent his time trying to stop the bubbles! Don't know if he was an ancestor of any or all of the last three West Ham managers but it wouldn't surprise me! 

12. Thanks Zico.

17th Century Quiz

1.  The Great Fire of London started on 2 September of which year?
1666

2.  Who in the early 17th Century discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter?
Galileo Galilei (They are known as the Galilean Moons)

3.  In which Massachusetts Township were the famous witch trials of 1692 and 1693 held?
Salem

4.  On which ship did the "Pilgrim Fathers" make their voyage to North America in 1620?
The Mayflower

5.  In which year did the "Gunpowder Plot" take place, was it 1605, 1615 or 1625?
1605 

6. Guy Fawkes is the best remembered of the plotters, but who was the driving force behind the 'Plot' and their leader?
Robert Catesby

7.  Which physicist laid the foundations of classical mechanics?
Sir Isaac Newton

8. Written by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra in 1605, which book is considered to be the first European novel?
Don Quixote

9.  In 1647 King Charles I is imprisoned in which castle on the Isle of Wight?
Carisbrooke

10.  Who in 1670 is credited with inventing champagne?
Dom Perignon

11.  By what nickname was Charles II widely known?
The Merry Monarch

12. After the execution of Charles I, his son Charles II fought to reclaim the throne at the battle of Worcester. One of his hiding places gave its name to many an English pub. What was it? 
The Royal Oak

13. Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1658?
His son, Richard Cromwell (Point for son, two points for full name)

14.  What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?
The Baroque Period

15.  In what modern country did the Khmelnytsky Uprising occur?
Ukraine

16 Which Cardinal was the chief minister of Louis XIII from 1624 to his death in 1642?
Cardinal Richelieu

17. In 1670 who attempted to steal Crown Jewels from the Tower of London? 
Thomas Blood

18.  What type of clock did Christian Huygens invent in the 17th century to revolutionise clock making?
Pendulum Clock

19.  In which decade of the 17th Century was the Bank of England founded, was it the 1670’s, 1680’s or 1690’s?
1690s (1694)

20. At what location did the Great Fire of London stop in 1666?
‘Pye’ (or Pie) Corner - on the corner of Giltspur Street and Cock Lane, so will accept either of these.









 

A middling 11 for yesterday thanks zico

17th Century Quiz

1.  The Great Fire of London started on 2 September of which year?

2.  Who in the early 17th Century discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter?

3.  In which Massachusetts Township were the famous witch trials of 1692 and 1693 held?

4.  On which ship did the "Pilgrim Fathers" make their voyage to North America in 1620?

5.  In which year did the "Gunpowder Plot" take place, was it 1605, 1615 or 1625?

6. Guy Fawkes is the best remembered of the plotters, but who was the driving force behind the 'Plot' and their leader?

7.  Which physicist laid the foundations of classical mechanics?

8. Written by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra in 1605, which book is considered to be the first European novel?

9.  In 1647 King Charles I is imprisoned in which castle on the Isle of Wight?

10.  Who in 1670 is credited with inventing champagne?

11.  By what nickname was Charles II widely known?

12. After the execution of Charles I, his son Charles II fought to reclaim the throne at the battle of Worcester. One of his hiding places gave its name to many an English pub. What was it? 

13. Who succeeded Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1658?

14.  What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?

15.  In what modern country did the Khmelnytsky Uprising occur?

16 Which Cardinal was the chief minister of Louis XIII from 1624 to his death in 1642?

17. In 1670 who attempted to steal Crown Jewels from the Tower of London? 

18.  What type of clock did Christian Huygens invent in the 17th century to revolutionise clock making?

19.  In which decade of the 17th Century was the Bank of England founded, was it the 1670’s, 1680’s or 1690’s?

20. At what location did the Great Fire of London stop in 1666?