History Quiz 1

Questions

1. Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny on the Bounty in 1789, subsequently rediscovered and settled on which remote Pacific Island, which had been 'lost' from British maritime records?

2. Which English King abdicated in 1936?

3. Which London Emporium opened in Picadilly 1707?

4. Which calendar was devised in 1582?

5. In what year, generally regarded as marking the end of the Cold War, did the Berlin Wall come down?

6. In 1926, 19 year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do what?

7. Which planet was discovered by William Herschel 1781?

8. In what year did India and Pakistan become independent nations and free from British rule?

9. Which mountain was climbed for the first time in 1786?

10. What date is France's Bastille Day?

11. Which New York hotel was designed by Henry Hardenbergh in 1897?

12. Which former Prime Minister of India was assassinated in 1991 as he campaigned for re-election?

13. In 1624 what was purchased from the local inhabitant Native Americans by the Dutch for a reported sum of $24?

14. What were the waitresses called who worked in the English Lyons Cornerhouse tea rooms, popular in first half of the 1900's?

15. What took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773?

16. The Kiel Canal in Germany, officially opened in 1895, connects which two seas?

17. Who in 1963 murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin (according to official accounts) of US President John F Kennedy?

18. Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston USA in 1992 aged 103, Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of what?

19. French King Louis XIV (1638-1715) was the longest reigning European monarch - how long did he reign?

20. Who became US president after Herbert Hoover?

21. In which year did French Queen Marie Antoinette go the guillotine?

22. In 1803 who started shipping portions of the sculpted frieze from the Parthenon in Greece to England?

23. Which country gained its independence from Denmark in 1944?

24. What was the name of the world's first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?

25. What was the nationality of the first non-Italian Pope since 1523?

26. In which year was Nelson Mandela released from prison?

27. What was the name of the English farmer who invented the seed-planting drill in 1701?

28. What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims travelled to North America in 1620?