Quiz 2013

History and Politics

Question 1 - Who was the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain?

George II

Question 2 - What was Queen Victoria’s first name?

Alexandrina

Question 3 - In what country did Tonibler become a popular boy’s name at the turn of this century, and why?

Kosovo, because of the former British PM Tony Blair’s role in the 1999 Nato airstrike

Question 4 - In the 20th century, only one European country had a Muslim monarch. Which was it?

Albania

Question 5 - Which neutral European country did Britain invade in May 1940?

Iceland

Question 6 - Who preceded William Hague as foreign secretary?

David Miliband

Question 7 - Name the five D-Day landing beaches.

Gold; Juno; Omaha; Sword; Utah

Question 8 - The death of which prince, in 1502, paved the way for Henry VIII to become king?

Prince Arthur, Henry VII’s eldest son

Question 9 - The following are all famous assassins. Who did they kill? a) John Wilkes Booth; b) Gavrilo Princip; c) Nathuram Godse; d) Ramón Mercader (clue: he used an ice pick).

a) Abraham Lincoln; b) Archduke Franz Ferdinand; c) Mahatma Gandhi; d) Leon Trotsky

Question 10 - Whose coronation by Pope Leo III in 800 marked the beginning of the Carolingian era?

Charlemagne

Question 11 - Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was executed in 1917. By what name is she better known?

Mata Hari

Question 12 - On 31 January 1990, people queued up in Pushkin Square, Moscow, for more than six hours to be the first at the opening of what?

The city’s first McDonald’s