History
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Who was imprisoned in 1923 for trying to overthrow the Bavarian Government?
Muckle John was the last official royal one in England – what?
What twentieth-century American president was so obsessed with secrecy that he often wrote “burn this” on personal letters?
Who drowned at Chappaquiddick in 1969?
Who was the first presidential jogger?
1996 was the Chinese year of which creature?
How many beds were listed in the palace inventories of France’s King Louis XIV?
Who was born Karl Herbert Frahm?
Which city was besieged by German troops for over 900 days in WWII?
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?
Which explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope?
General Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave where in 1989?
Which present day capital city is built on the capital city of the Aztecs?
In what year did Hussein become king of Jordan?
Whom did Mark Chapman kill in New York?
Who was the pacifist who led India’s struggle for independence?
At whom did Nel Gwyn flash her oranges and later become his mistress?
Which form of death penalty was abolished by Francois Mitterrand?
Which Adolf was executed in May 1962 for his part in the Holocaust?
What were the Four Freedoms outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union message to Congress in January 1941?
When was power steering first available in a petrol driven car?
Which dentist assisted Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral?
The Kray twins ruled the underworld in London during the 50s and 60s, what were their first names?
A museum in whose memory can be visited at Hyannis?
What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
Which Massachusetts town was the scene of witch trials in 1892 which led to 19 executions?
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?
Who was the smallest U.S. President?
What was the B-17 long-range bomber nicknamed in World War II?
How did Russian leader Boris Yeltsin lose the thumb and forefinger of his left hand?
At the end of Queen Victoria’s reign, what was her full correct title?
What Civil War general graduated first in the West Point class of 1829?
Which politician stated, “Read my lips: no new taxes?”
Winston Churchill had a dog – what type?
In which city was John F Kennedy assassinated?
Gertrude Margarita Zeller was shot for Espionage during the First World War, how was she better known?
What was Ronald Reagan’s middle name?
In 1954 the Pennsylvania coal mining communities of Maunch Chunk and East Maunch Chunk merged and adopted a new name in honor of a famous athlete. What was it?
How many U.S. presidents played a role in Vietnam’s civil war?
Who was the last British monarch to ascend to the throne as a teenager?
Who was the youngest ever leader of the Labor Party, elected in 1983?
In which country did the My Lai massacre take place?
Who was the first American President to resign from office?
Which multi-millionaire was born the same day TV pioneer John Logie Baird died?
What do Tony Blair and Lord John Russell, in 1848, have in common whilst holding the office of Prime Minister?
What was the name of the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine?
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