QUIZ

HISTORY QUIZ

• 1 What was the name for the multi-stranded knotted rope used for flogging in days gone by?

• 2 Which former country was originally called The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes?

• 3 The Knesset is the legislature of which country?

• 4 Who wrote “On Rhetoric”? • 5 Who is the current Prime Minister of Russia?

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• 6 Who said “Dr Livingstone, I presume?” at Ujiji? • 7 What name was given to the women who

campaigned to have the vote in the first two decades of the 20th century?

• 8 Who had himself crowned King of Scotland at Scone in 1306?

• 9 Which famous battle was fought on June 18 1815?

• 10 Who led the Luftwaffe in the Second World War?

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• 11 What word denoted the new policy of openness adopted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s government in the Soviet Union?

• 12 Who led the Seventh Cavalry to its doom at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

• 13 Famed for her eloquence, beauty and learning, who was the astronomer and mathematician murdered by a mob set on her by the Bishop of Alexandria?

• 14 Where was a major treaty in the history of the EU signed in February 1992?

• 15 “Egghead weds hourglass” was the headline when playwright Arthur Miller married which actress?

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• 16 Fulgencio Batista was overthrown as the leader of which country on January 1 1959?

• 17 In which country was the world’s first female Prime Minister elected in 1960?

• 18 Which monarch observed “L’etat, c’est moi”? • 19 The traditional date for the founding of which

city is 753BC? • 20 Solidarity was an important Trade Union in

which country in the Eighties?

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• 21 Who was assassinated at the theatre by John Wilkes Booth?

• 22 Which ancient battle gave its name to an athletics race?

• 23 Which Anglo-Saxon Kingdom had its capital at Winchester?

• 24 Which of Napoleon’s victories had a chicken dish named after it?

• 25 Which treaty with Germany brought a formal end to the First World War?

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• 26 Which politician, when told by Lady Nancy Astor that if he were her husband she’d put poison in his coffee, replied that if she were his wife he’d drink it?

• 27 In which ship did Captain James Cook sail on his first voyage of exploration between 1768 and 1771?

• 28 Which Ancient Greek physician is known as “The father of medicine”?

• 29 What generic name is given to the metal-armoured steam-powered warships prevalent in world navies in the decades following 1860?

• 30 What was the name given to the prosperous peasants in Russia who were violently repressed by Stalin?

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• 31 Which murderer was arrested on the S S Montrose in 1910?

• 32 Which part of his anatomy did astronomer Tycho Brahe lose most of in a duel?

• 33 Which future President was defeated by John F Kennedy in the 1960 election?

• 34 Who famously said “The die is cast!” as he crossed the rubicon in 65BC?

• 35 Which ancient empire blinked out of existence in 1492?

ANSWERS

• 1) Cat o’ Nine Tails 2) Yugoslavia 3) Israel 4) Aristotle 5) Vladimir Putin 6) (Henry Morton) Stanley 7) Suffragettes 8) Robert the Bruce 9) The Battle of Waterloo 10) Hermann Goering 11) Glasnost 12) Lt-Col George Armstrong Custer 13) Hypatia 14) Maastricht 15) Marilyn Monroe 16) Cuba 17) Sri Lanka (or Ceylon as it was then – the woman in question being Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike) 18) Louis XIV 19) Rome 20) Poland 21) Abraham Lincoln 22) Marathon 23) Wessex 24) Marengo 25) The Treaty of Versailles 26) Winston Churchill 27) The Endeavour 28) Hippocrates of Cos 29) Ironclads 30) Kulaks 31) Dr (Hawley Harvey) Crippen 32) his nose 33) Richard Nixon 34) Julius Caesar 35) The Byzantine Empire

History Discussion1)Is history important to you?2)Did you like studying history at school?3)What period of history interests you most?4)What do you think of the recent history of your country – the past fifty

years?5)What do you know about the early history of your country6)What do you think of the overall history of your country?7)Do you think history repeats itself?8)What period of history would you like to go back and live in?9)Napoleon Bonaparte said “History is a set of lies agreed upon”. Do

you agree with this?10)“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.” What do you think of this

quote in relation to what was in your school history books?

History Discussion1)Why do people like history?2)What do you know about your family history?3)Is there a history of illness in your family?4)Would you like to be a historian?5)In his book 1984, George Orwell says: “He who controls the past,

controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.” Do you agree? Does this apply to countries today?

6)Which people in the world have a troubled history?7)Do you think history comes back to haunt us?8)Does your country have a proud or violent history?9)How would the world change if schools stopped teaching history to

children and all history books were destroyed?10)Sir Winston Churchill said: “Those that fail to learn from history, are

doomed to repeat it.” Do you agree with him?