History
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Who was the first person pictured on a British postage stamp?
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?
Which country was the first to leave the commonwealth in 1949?
Where was Lee Harvey Oswald shot dead?
What rank did Russian czar Peter the Great give himself in the Russian Army?
Who was the first president of France’s Fifth Republic?
Which economic theory that was the dominant school of thought throughout the early modern period holds that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital and that the global volume of international trade is unchangeable?
Which politician said, “You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he’ll be on your porch?”
To which British monarch was The Faerie Queen dedicated?
Which state did Amelia Earhart land in on her first solo Pacific flight?
What country enacted the War Powers Act to quell a separatist rebellion in 1970?
Which Home County was absorbed into Greater London in the 1974 reorganization?
In what year was the Wall Street Crash?
What was Princess Diana’s second name?
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