History

Question 1

When was the battle of Hastings?

Answer 1

1066

Question 2

1980 Summer Olymics boycott

Answer 2

US initiated a boycott against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan for the 1980 Olymics in Moscow.

Question 3

What event marked the beginning of the gay rights movement?

Answer 3

Stonewall riots

Question 4

When did Britain make it illegal to own slaves?

Answer 4

1833

Question 5

What was Nikita Khrushchev’s title when he took power of the soviet union

Answer 5

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Question 6

what happened in 1066 that marked the start of a new era in Britain?

Answer 6

Battle of Hastings

Question 7

When did England and Wales legalise gay marriage?

Answer 7

13th March 2014

Question 8

When was the Russo-Japanese war

Answer 8

1904-5 over Korea 

Treaty of Portsmouth

Question 9

What was the Albigensian Crusade?

Answer 9

Pope Innocent III aimed to wipe out Catharism, a sect of Christianity. He succeeded and 200,000 Cathars were killed.

Question 10

Who was prime minister during the Falklands War

Answer 10

Margaret Thatcher

Question 11

When was the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 11

30th June to 2nd July 1934

Question 12

When was the Albigensian Crusade?

Answer 12

1209 - 1229

Question 13

Since when has Vladimir Putin been President of Russia

Answer 13

1999-2008

2012- present

Question 14

Why were they called the dark ages?

Answer 14

there was very little that was recorded and there was considered to be regression in developments e.g. the philosophical thinking of the Romans was replaced with religious superstition, and there was great economic decline

Question 15

When did Apollo 11 land on the moon?

Answer 15

July 20th, 1969

Question 16

When was the Hundred Years’ War?

Answer 16

1337–1453 (116 years)

Question 17

When was the American civil War

Answer 17

1861-65

Question 18

when was the cuban missile crisis?

Answer 18

1962

Question 19

Who won the Russo-Japanese war

Answer 19

Japan won 

Treaty of Portsmouth

Question 20

When did the Romans conquer Britain?

Answer 20

43 CE/AD

Question 21

When were the ‘Middle Ages’

Answer 21

Between the fall of Rome in 476 CE (Common Era) and the Renaissance in the 14th century

Question 22

What year did Edison give the first public demonstration of the light bulb?

Answer 22

1879

Question 23

When and where were the Stonewall Riots?

Answer 23

28 Jun 1969 – 3 Jul 1969

New York

Question 24

When and what was the Prohibition?

Answer 24

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

Question 25

Spanish inquisition

Answer 25

1478, Monarchs wanted Spain to unite under one religion - Catholicism. Muslims and Jews were forced to covert. Thousands were punished and killed.

Question 26

Why do monarchy house names change? E.g. Normandy to Angevins

Answer 26

either because queens didn't pass on their family name, their sons would take their father's name or through murder/usurpation

Question 27

Who was the Hundred Years' War between?

Answer 27

France and England

Question 28

when was the feudal system (feudalism) used?

Answer 28

Medieval Europe 9th-15th centuries

Question 29

what was surprising about Khrushchev's rule?

Answer 29

he denounced Stalin's crimes and set out policies to de-Stalinise Russia.

Question 30

Who were the Anglo-Saxons?

Answer 30

People from German-speaking regions in Europe who settled in the South of England in the 5th century towards the end of Roman Britain.

Question 31

why was hadrian's wall built

Answer 31

to separate conquered england with the northern area that was unconquered, Caledonia (most of Scotland)  

Question 32

What was the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 32

Hitler defeated the opposition within his own party (the SA) be executing key leaders and became ruler of Germany.

Question 33

when were the Tudors

Answer 33

1485 - 1603

Question 34

Who was the battle of Hastings between?

Answer 34

Anglo-Saxon England and Normans

Question 35

why did Julius Caesar not conquer Britain?

Answer 35

He failed due to guerilla warfare and bad weather

Question 36

who won the battle of hastings?

Answer 36

Duke William of Normandy (William the Conqueror)

Question 37

the mayflower

Answer 37

a ship that transported 140 English people 'the Pilgrims' to America in the 1620s.

Question 38

when was the medieval period?

Answer 38

1066-1485

Question 39

Who ruled after Julius Caesar?

Answer 39

Caesar Augustus (aka Octavian) 

Question 40

who built hadrian's wall

Answer 40

Roman emperor Hadrian

Question 41

when were the 'Dark Ages'

Answer 41

early medieval period, CE 140 - 1066

Question 42

which Roman emperor conquered Britain?

Answer 42

Claudius, the 4th Roman Emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54 

Question 43

what caused the Falklands war?

Answer 43

Argentina invaded the Falkland islands and South Georgia so the British navy fought to reclaim it and won the territories back

Question 44

Where were the Nuremberg Trials held?

Answer 44

A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany

Question 45

who were the rulers of the SU and the USA during the cuban missile crisis?

Answer 45

Nikita Khrushchev and John F. Kennedy

Question 46

Hundred Years' War actually lasted how many year?

Answer 46

116, and technically it was a series of wars over this period

Question 47

What began the Tudor era

Answer 47

War of the Roses

Question 48

First US State to legalise gay marriage and when

Answer 48

Massachusetts in 2004

Question 49

Who lost the batlle of hastings

Answer 49

King Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England  

Question 50

When did Britain abolish the slave trade?

Answer 50

1807

Question 51

When were the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 51

1945-6

Question 52

What Nationality was William the Conqueror?

Answer 52

French, he was the Duke of Normandy

Question 53

Benjamin Lay

Answer 53

Quaker abolitionist born in England but later moved to America. He protested against slave owners, lived in a cave to avoid anything to do with slave owners, was vegetarian, and made his own clothes to avoid clothes made by slaves. He was also a dwarf. 

Question 54

What religion was Elizabeth I?

Answer 54

Protestant

Question 55

Last Emperor of Russia

Answer 55

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Question 56

What nationality was Joan of Arc?

Answer 56

French

Question 57

Shaka Zulu founded the Zulu Kingdom in what year

Answer 57

Chief and Founder of the Zulu Kingdom in Southern Africa in 1816 He was a warrior who formed an army and devasted the region, turning psychotic after his mother's death and killing thousands  

Question 58

What religion was Mary I

Answer 58

Catholic

Question 59

Gloria Steinem became the media spokeswoman for the __ in the 19__s.

Answer 59

The women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Question 60

How did Joan of Arc die?

Answer 60

She was burned at the stake

Question 61

What did Joan of Arc do?

Answer 61

She led the French to battle to reclaim three main territories of France from the British, creating a path for Charles to get to Reims to be crowned King of France

Question 62

Who carried out the Albigensian Crusade?

Answer 62

Pope Innocent III (France)

Question 63

Grigori Rasputin befriended which Russian Emperor

Answer 63

Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia

Question 64

Bonnie and Clyde

Answer 64

American criminal couple from the early 1900s who committed bank robberies and robbed stores and funeral homes. They were shot by police in 1934. 

Question 65

Archimedes was a

Answer 65

Greek mathmatician 

Question 66

What year did Diana die?

Answer 66

1997

Question 67

Why was Joan of Arc killed?

Answer 67

She was tried at court for breaking religious rules (e.g. dressing like a man) and she had then signed an agreement she would never dress as a man again. While in prison she was found wearing boys clothes - allegedly because the prison guards stripped her naked and forced her to wear the boys clothing

Question 68

Who conquers England in 1066?

Answer 68

William the Conqueror

Question 69

Roughly what year was Joan of Arc born?

Answer 69

1412 - in the Medieval era

Question 70

What two things did Fritz Haber invent and what were they used for?

Answer 70

A process to create ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Ammonia fertilises soil, aiding most of the world's food production. Chemical weapons, used in WWI during his lifetime, but also by the Nazis in concentration camps