History
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The Russian mystic, Grigori Rasputin, was killed in 1916 by what? A) Assassination B) Shot C) Drowned D) All three
Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?
Ed Gein was a notorious murderer and grave robber, True or False?
President Kennedy was shot in Dallas in what type of car?
What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?
Who finally stuck as Russia’s prime minister, after Boris Yeltsin had fired four previous choices in 17 months?
Which president was the first to visit China?
Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985 and then hosted the World Cup in 1986?
Who became head of state in Guyana in 1992?
Which Russian leader had a pronounced birth mark on his forehead?
What was Manfred von Richtofen’s nickname?
Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime minister from then until 1963?
Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?
E Pluribus Unum’ was one of the first mottos adopted by the United States government. What do the words mean?
What position was Eileen Collins the first female to hold on a space shuttle mission?
What was 11th-century Spanish military leader Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better know as?
Which ship was sunk by a German submarine in 1915 with a loss of 1400 lives including 128 Americans?
According to legend, who rode naked through the streets of Coventry to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband?
Both President John Tyler Jr. and his father, John Tyler Sr. served as governor of what state?
Which Bob who founded Band Aid received an honorary knighthood in 1986?
Nelson Rockefeller, former Vice President of the USA and heir to the Rockefeller family fortune, died aged 70 of a heart attack, what was he doing?
In 2004, the government of Equatorial Guinea accused which popular English author of being one of the financiers of a failed 2004 coup d’Etat attempt against it?
Who was the author of Spy Catcher in 1987? It was banned by the British government.
Chennai in India used to be known as what city?
How long did it take Napoleon to send a message from Rome to Paris – almost 700 miles – using a semaphore system to signal from mountaintop to mountaintop?
In 1995 astronaut Michael Foale was the first Briton to walk where?
Who was the 1st President of the fifth republic of France?
What ‘v’engeful weapon is the first known human artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight?
What were Robert E. Lee’s dying words?
Which criminal was set up by the Lady In Red?
What political system was gradually dismantled in South Africa, starting in 1989?
Which state celebrates its centenary of joining the Union in 2012?
Which airline owned the plane which crashed off Nova Scotia in 1998 killing over 200 including UN officials?
Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was demolished by an earthquake in 224 B.C.?
How many miles per gallon did the 22-horsepower, 4-cylinder Model T Ford get when it was introduced in 1908?
Who declared he had ‘ a dream’ where all Americans would live as equals?
Who was president of the USSR from 1985-91?
What decade did Bonnie and Clyde turn to crime together? A) 1910s B) 1920s C) 1930s D) 1940s
What famous couple appeared in the 1958 television play A Turkey for the president?
Who advised Bill Clinton to be wise but brief in his Sidwell Friends high school graduation speech?
Andrea Hollen was the first woman in US to do what?
Britain, Ireland and what country joined the EEC simultaneously?
What presidential hopeful was once dubbed the first “welfare billionaire,” after he snagged the data processing contract for Medicare and Medicaid?
What was first crossed by tightrope by Charles Blondin in 1859?
What president’s mug graces a $100,000 bill?
Which European country left the Commonwealth and declared itself a republic in 1949?
John George Diefenbaker was once Prime Minister of where?
What controversial crime fighter did Elvis Presley call “the greatest living American”?
Ronald Reagan used a famous line from one of his movies as the title of his 1965 autobiography, What’s the line?
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