History Quiz 2

Questions

1. The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 featured in which war?

2. What was the nickname of President Duvalier of Haiti, who died in 1971?

3. Who was the first Windsor monarch of the UK?

4. in 1986 the prime minister of which European country was assassinated on his way home from the cinema with his wife?

5. Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI created which principality in 1719?

6. In which year did the demolition of the Berlin Wall begin?

7. In 1816 which US state was admitted to the Union as the 20th state?

8. In 1979 which English art historian was exposed as a one-time Soviet spy and stripped of his knighthood?

9. Southern Rhodesia became what country in 1980?

10. Who designed Regent's Park in London in 1811?

11. Who founded the Salvation Army in London, 1865?

12. Which Egyptian president ordered the seizure of the Suez Canal in 1956?

13. Who was the cult leader of the Waco Siege in 1993?

14. Who discovered the vaccination against smallpox in 1796?

15. In which European city did composer Richard Wagner die in 1883?

16. Who was the last British Viceroy of India?

17. Which country was first to operate an old age pension scheme?

18. What Apollo 13 astronaut contacted Mission Control with the words, "Houston, we've had a problem here.." ?

19. In which year did the Titanic sink?

20. What song, popular in the First World War, was written by George and Felix Powell?

21. Which comic strip animal devised by Otto Mesmer first appeared in 1931?

22. What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane in which he completed the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight?

23. What was the name of the pandemic which killed over 1% of the world's population in 1918?

24. Who was UK Labour cabinet minister and social reformer Frank Pakenham better known as?

25. Which Wild West legend was born Henry McCarty?

26. Who invented the thermometer in 1593?

27. In which year did the UK hand over Hong Kong sovereignty to China?

28. The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were fought between which two houses of England?

29. Who was the ruler of the USSR from 1917-22?