specific facts 1

Question 1

Hungarians killed by secret police

Answer 1

2,000

Question 2

hungarians killed in the uprising

Answer 2

4,000

Question 3

amount of Soviet soldiers sent to destroy the Hungarian uprising

Answer 3

200,000

Question 4

amount of Soviet tanks sent to destroy the Hungarian uprising

Answer 4

6,000

Question 5

the peak amount of flights and date

Answer 5

1,938 from 16-17th April

Question 6

most amounts of supplies dropped of the Berlin blockade

Answer 6

13,000 tonnes in 24 hours

Question 7

Muslims executed at Acre

Answer 7

2,700

Question 8

how many killed in the My Lai massacre

Answer 8

347

Question 9

what Saxon punishment was replaced by Werguild

Answer 9

Blood feud

Question 10

the murdrum fine was introduced by the?

Answer 10

Normans

Question 11

poachers could be blinded under what law by the Normans

Answer 11

Forest laws

Question 12

who declared his ‘utter detestation’ of Catholics in 1604

Answer 12

James 1st

Question 13

where were there 250 cases of witchcraft between 1645-1647

Answer 13

East Anglia

Question 14

in 1723 what law made poaching a capital offence

Answer 14

Black Act

Question 15

how many smugglers were there in the 18th century

Answer 15

20,000

Question 16

how many people signed a petition for the Tolpuddle Martyrs to be released

Answer 16

250,000

Question 17

how many people were transported from 1787-1850

Answer 17

150,000

Question 18

who established the metropolitan police in 1829

Answer 18

Sir Robert Peel

Question 19

how many flights were there during the Berlin Airlift between 1948-1949

Answer 19

275,000

Question 20

in what year did both the US USSR test their first hydrogen bombs

Answer 20

1953

Question 21

when was the Berlin wall constructed

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

the limited test ban treaty was signed in

Answer 22

1963

Question 23

in 1968 Dubcek met with the Yugoslavian leader Tito which alarmed who

Answer 23

Brezhnev

Question 24

how many Soviet troops were sent into Afganistan to fight the Mujahideen

Answer 24

85,000

Question 25

who won the first free elections in Eastern Europe in 1989

Answer 25

A free trade union, solidarity

Question 26

how many people crossed from east to west a day after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989

Answer 26

1 million a day

Question 27

how much was the church tax Tithing

Answer 27

10%

Question 28

when were jews attacked in York and the records of debts destroyed

Answer 28

1190

Question 29

which city fell to the crusaders siege

Answer 29

Acre

Question 30

how much was the ransom for Richard 1st from Duke Leopold of Austria

Answer 30

100,000 marks

Question 31

how much did Chateau Galliard cost Richard to build

Answer 31

£12,000

Question 32

what year was Richard able to recapture all of Normandy

Answer 32

1199

Question 33

in 1200 what treaty did John sign in which he agreed to pay Phillip 20,000 marks

Answer 33

treaty of Le Goulet

Question 34

who did John fail to compensate for taking his fiancee Isabella of Angouleme

Answer 34

Hugh de Luisgnan

Question 35

john doubled the tax in 1207 with the introduction of what tax

Answer 35

the thirteenth

Question 36

when did Prince Louis of France land in England to join the Barons against John in the First Barons war

Answer 36

May 1216

Question 37

what 1896 ruling did Brown V Topeka overrule saying that it was not ‘separate but equal’

Answer 37

Plessy V Ferguson

Question 38

how many people took part in the bus boycott

Answer 38

20,000

Question 39

what event did President Eisenhower intervene to overrule Arkansas state governor Orval Faubus

Answer 39

Little rock nine in 1957

Question 40

who bombed the freedom rides in May 1961

Answer 40

KKK

Question 41

president Kennedy had to send 320 Federal Marshals to escort who to go to the University of Mississippi in 1962

Answer 41

James Meredith

Question 42

when were four civil rights activists murdered during the freedom rides

Answer 42

1964

Question 43

which president passed the Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 43

Lyndon B Johnson

Question 44

who founded the Black Panthers

Answer 44

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

Question 45

what year were there race riots in 125 US cities

Answer 45

1967

Question 46

what percentage of black children were in segregated schools at the start and end of Nixon’s terms

Answer 46

start 1968 68%

end 1974 8%

Question 47

Eisenhower got involved in Vietnam following what in 1954

Answer 47

Geneva agreement

Question 48

how did Diem’s sister in law respond to the Buddist monk burning themselves in protest in 1963

Answer 48

she said she hoped for more ‘barbecues’

Question 49

what did Johnson use as an excuse for America to have ground troops in the Vietnam war in 1964

Answer 49

that the US ship ‘the Maddox’ was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin

Question 50

what percentage of US deaths in Vietnam were caused by booby traps

Answer 50

11%

Question 51

what was the name of the bombing campaign that dropped twice as many bombs then the allied forces did in WW11

Answer 51

Operation rolling thunder

Question 52

what year was the Tet offensive

Answer 52

1968

Question 53

when was the Kent state shootings which killed 4 students

Answer 53

1970

Question 54

what percentage of Americans supported and opposed the invasion of Cambodia in 1970

Answer 54

50% supported the invasion whereas only 35% opposed the invasion

Question 55

how much did the cost of the Vietnam war increase for America from 1964-1968

Answer 55

in 1964 only 0.5 billion dollars was spent whereas 26.5 billion dollars was spent in 1968