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Natural History Quiz

1.  Which species of bear is presently the largest in the world?

2.  Which period did the Tyrannosaurus Rex live in?

3.  In 1937, a team of workmen digging within the old moat at the Tower of London made a strange discovery: a pair of skulls from which beasts?

4.  Which naturalist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

5.  What is the scientific name for the study of fossils?

6.  What animal was called "cameleopard" until the late 19th century?

7.  The first verifiable release into the British wild was in 1876 when a Victorian banker released a pair, he’d brought back from a business trip to America into Henbury Park, near Macclesfield in Cheshire. What animal was it?

8.  What is "Hope," a 25.2-meter-long skeleton suspended in the Hintze Hall of the Natural History Museum in London?

9.  What is the alternative name for Uluru?

10.  The first known carbonaceous chondrite to have been found in the UK was in the Winchcombe area of Gloucestershire in 2021. What is it?

11.  Mastodons were prehistoric relatives of which modern animals?

12.  What is the term for the scientific study of insects?

13.  What is a female alligator called?

14.  The Mariana Trench is the deepest point in which ocean?

15. Which are the only mammals that can fly? 

16.  The Arctic (what?) is a species of bird that is known for migrating the longest distance annually?

17.  What is the better-known name of the thylacine, a type of marsupial that once lived in Australia about 2,000 years ago?

18.  In Orkney, which large shark species is called "hoe-mother," meaning "the mother of the piked dogfish"?

19.  The last Scottish what was said to have been killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680 in Perthshire?

20.  The dodo, an extinct flightless bird, was endemic to which island?
 

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21st Century Quiz

1. The solar system was left with how many planets after Pluto was reclassified to a dwarf planet?
Eight planets

2.  In which year did the UK vote to leave the EU in a summer referendum?
2016

3.  Which cryptocurrency was launched in January 2009?
Bitcoin

4.  Which country hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2010?
South Africa

5.  Thirty-three miners were trapped for 69 days in 2010 inside the San Jose Mine in which country?
Chile

6.  How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she passed away at Balmoral Castle on the 8 September 2022?
96

7.  Which developed country became the first to default the International Monetary Fund?
Greece

8. Tim Cook took over as CEO of which tech giant in 2011?
Apple Inc

9.  Nicolas Sarkozy tied the knot with which elegant model in 2008?
Carla Bruni

10.  Margrethe II ruled as the queen of which country for over 50 years until 2024?
Denmark

11.  How many planes were hijacked as part of the 9/11 attacks that took place in 2001?
Four

12. In July 2015, the United States opened an embassy in which country, the first after five decades? 
Cuba

13.  In 2000 which sporting duo picked up OBE's, 19 years after being awarded MBE's?
Jane Torvill & Christopher Dean

14.  Which fashion designer, daughter of a famous musician, designed Team GB's kit for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Stella McCartney

15.  In November 2020, who became the first artist to score a top five UK chart album in EIGHT consecutive decades?
Cliff Richard

16.  In which year did Scotland vote to remain part of the UK in an independence referendum?
2014

17.  Elon Musk's 'Space Exploration Technologies Corp.' is commonly referred to by what name?
SpaceX

18. The LHC sits 100 metres underground on the France-Swiss border. What do the letters stand for?
 Large Hadron Collider

19.  During Holy Week in April 2006, a major fire engulfed what building?
The Notre Dame Cathedral – will accept just Notre Dame

20.  WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested in 2019 after seven years in which country's London embassy?
Ecuador

 

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And finally.......

21st Century Quiz

1. The solar system was left with how many planets after Pluto was reclassified to a dwarf planet?

2.  In which year did the UK vote to leave the EU in a summer referendum?

3.  Which cryptocurrency was launched in January 2009?

4.  Which country hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2010?

5.  Thirty-three miners were trapped for 69 days in 2010 inside the San Jose Mine in which country?

6.  How old was Queen Elizabeth II when she passed away at Balmoral Castle on the 8 September 2022?

7.  Which developed country became the first to default the International Monetary Fund?

8. Tim Cook took over as CEO of which tech giant in 2011?

9.  Nicolas Sarkozy tied the knot with which elegant model in 2008?

10.  Margrethe II ruled as the queen of which country for over 50 years until 2024?

11.  How many planes were hijacked as part of the 9/11 attacks that took place in 2001?

12. In July 2015, the United States opened an embassy in which country, the first after five decades? 

13.  In 2000 which sporting duo picked up OBE's, 19 years after being awarded MBE's?

14.  Which fashion designer, daughter of a famous musician, designed Team GB's kit for the 2012 Summer Olympics?

15.  In November 2020, who became the first artist to score a top five UK chart album in EIGHT consecutive decades?

16.  In which year did Scotland vote to remain part of the UK in an independence referendum?

17.  Elon Musk's 'Space Exploration Technologies Corp.' is commonly referred to by what name?

18. The LHC sits 100 metres underground on the France-Swiss border. What do the letters stand for?

19.  During Holy Week in April 2006, a major fire engulfed what building?

20.  WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange was arrested in 2019 after seven years in which country's London embassy?


 

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20TH Century Quiz

1.  Which disease killed between 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919?
The Spanish Flu

2.  Who was British Prime Minister when man first landed on the moon?
Harold Wilson

3.  Who created panic in 1938, when his radio broadcast of "The War of The Worlds" was believed to be true?
Orson Welles

4.  Which year saw the Cuban missile crisis, the Beatles' first record and the death of Marilyn Monroe?
1962

5.  In 1953, Mount Everest was climbed for the first time by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal - which country's flag was first raised on Everest?
The United Kingdom's (because it was a British expedition led by John Hunt (later Lord Hunt))

6.  Which year saw both the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters?
1986

7.  What was the name of the first artificial Earth satellite which the Soviet Union launched into low Earth orbit in 1957?
Sputnik 1

8.  Which decade saw the release of the first feature-length animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
1930s (1937)

9.  In which American state is Mount St. Helens, which erupted in 1980?
Washington

10.  In what year was London due to host the Olympic Games, but couldn't because of the Second World War?
1944

11.  In 1924, the death of Vladimir Lenin triggered a power struggle between Joseph Stalin and which other politician?
Leon Trotsky

12.  Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Conservative Party Conference, and a bonus point for the year?
The Grand Hotel - 1984

13.  Which year in the 70’saw The Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War?
1975

14.  In which county was 1963’s Great Train Robbery?
Buckinghamshire

15.  Name the ship which in April 1912, became famous for rescuing 700 odd survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean?
RMS Carpathia

16.  Britain’s first credit card was introduced in 1966. Can you name it?
Barclaycard

17.  In August 1966, the Beatles famously gave their last full public concert at Candlestick Park in which city?
San Francisco

18.  What was the secret code name for the SAS operation at London’s Iranian Embassy in 1980?
Operation Nimrod

19.  In 1990, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web whilst working for CERN in which country?
Switzerland

20.  What year did the Queen describe as being her “annus horribilis”?
1992

 

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20TH Century Quiz

1.  Which disease killed between 20 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919?

2.  Who was British Prime Minister when man first landed on the moon?

3.  Who created panic in 1938, when his radio broadcast of "The War of The Worlds" was believed to be true?

4.  Which year saw the Cuban missile crisis, the Beatles' first record and the death of Marilyn Monroe?

5.  In 1953, Mount Everest was climbed for the first time by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal - which country's flag was first raised on Everest?

6.  Which year saw both the Challenger and Chernobyl disasters?

7.  What was the name of the first artificial Earth satellite which the Soviet Union launched into low Earth orbit in 1957?

8.  Which decade saw the release of the first feature-length animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

9.  In which American state is Mount St. Helens, which erupted in 1980?

10.  In what year was London due to host the Olympic Games, but couldn't because of the Second World War?

11.  In 1924, the death of Vladimir Lenin triggered a power struggle between Joseph Stalin and which other politician?

12.  Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Conservative Party Conference, and a bonus point for the year?

13.  Which year in the 70’saw The Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War?

14.  In which county was 1963’s Great Train Robbery?

15.  Name the ship which in April 1912, became famous for rescuing 700 odd survivors of the rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean?

16.  Britain’s first credit card was introduced in 1966. Can you name it?

17.  In August 1966, the Beatles famously gave their last full public concert at Candlestick Park in which city?

18.  What was the secret code name for the SAS operation at London’s Iranian Embassy in 1980?

19.  In 1990, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web whilst working for CERN in which country?

20.  What year did the Queen describe as being her “annus horribilis”?



 

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19TH Century Quiz

1.  In which decade was the Irish Potato Famine, was it the 1820’s, 1840’s or 1860’s?
1840s (1845 to 1849)

2.  Now moored at Greenwich, which famous tea clipper was launched in 1869?
The Cutty Sark

3.  After taking a friend's family to a painting exhibition on 11 May 1812, John Bellingham remarked that he had some business to attend to.  He then assassinated whom?
British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval

4.  What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?
Dynamite

5.  Who headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal in 1807?
William Wilberforce

6.  Which island was the place of imprisonment of Napoleon from 1815 to his death in 1821?
Saint Helena

7. In the 1850s Henry Bessemer invented the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of what from molten pig iron?
Steel - The Bessemer Process was before the development of the open-hearth furnace.

8. In 1851, The Great Exhibition in London was held in a special building given what nickname? 
The Crystal Palace

9.  The 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade occurred in which battle? And which officer led the charge? Point for each
Battle of Balaclava. Led by Lord Cardigan

10.  Which yacht race was first considered to be staged in 1851 around the Isle of Wight?
America’s Cup.

11.  Lieutenants John Chard and Gonville Bromhead led the British in defending the garrison situated where in 1879?
Rorke’s Drift

12.  In which decade of the nineteenth century did Charles Dickens publish The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield??
1840’s

13.  Who served as flag captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805?
(Sir) Thomas Hardy

14.  Who in 1844 transmitted the first message by telegraph?
Samuel Morse

15.  Charles Darwin published which book in 1859?
On the Origin of Species

16.  Who assassinated President Lincoln in 1865?
John Wilkes Booth

17. In 1893, which country became the world's first to give women the vote?
New Zealand

18.  Which military award was first introduced in 1856?
Victoria Cross

19.  The American Civil War ended in April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to which Union General at the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
Ulysses S. Grant

20.  In which decade was The Slavery Abolition Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom?
1830s (1833)
 

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19TH Century Quiz

1.  In which decade was the Irish Potato Famine, was it the 1820’s, 1840’s or 1860’s?

2.  Now moored at Greenwich, which famous tea clipper was launched in 1869?

3.  After taking a friend's family to a painting exhibition on 11 May 1812, John Bellingham remarked that he had some business to attend to.  He then assassinated whom?

4.  What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?

5.  Who headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for twenty years until Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal in 1807?

6.  Which island was the place of imprisonment of Napoleon from 1815 to his death in 1821?

7. In the 1850s Henry Bessemer invented the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of what from molten pig iron?

8. In 1851, The Great Exhibition in London was held in a special building given what nickname? 

9.  The 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade occurred in which battle? And which officer led the charge? Point for each

10.  Which yacht race was first considered to be staged in 1851 around the Isle of Wight?

11.  Lieutenants John Chard and Gonville Bromhead led the British in defending the garrison situated where in 1879?

12.  In which decade of the nineteenth century did Charles Dickens publish The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield??

13.  Who served as flag captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805?

14.  Who in 1844 transmitted the first message by telegraph?

15.  Charles Darwin published which book in 1859?

16.  Who assassinated President Lincoln in 1865?

17. In 1893, which country became the world's first to give women the vote?

18.  Which military award was first introduced in 1856?

19.  The American Civil War ended in April 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to which Union General at the Battle of Appomattox Court House?

20.  In which decade was The Slavery Abolition Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom?


 

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18th Century Quiz

1.  What killed roughly 400,000 Europeans each year during the 18th century before Edward Jenner administered the first vaccine in 1796?
Smallpox

2.  Why did Britain lose 11 days in 1752?
The British Empire adopted the Gregorian Calendar (from 3 September to 13 September were dates lost in 1752)

3. Who was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst on 2 May 1729 in modern-day Poland?
Catherine the Great (or Catherine II)

4.  The Reign of Terror was the name given to the period involving numerous massacres and public executions in which Revolution?
French Revolution

5.  What did William Herschel discover from the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath in 1781?
The planet Uranus

6.  Which North American city situated in Louisiana was founded in 1718 by the French?
New Orleans

7.  Captain James Cook was killed on 14 February 1779 in which present day island?
Hawaii

8.  Joseph Priestley discovered "dephlogisticated air" in 1774, which later became known as what?
Oxygen

9.  What was discovered by Napoleon's troops in 1799 during the invasion of Egypt?
Rosetta Stone

10. Which song was set to a traditional tune in 1799, with the text written by Robert Burns in 1788?
Auld Lang Syne

11.  In 1793 which queen is beheaded by guillotine?
Marie Antoinette

12.  In 1719 Daniel Defoe writes which book, sometimes considered the first English-language novel?
Robinson Crusoe

13. Infamous Pirate Blackbeard, was killed by the Royal Navy in 1718. What was his real name?
Edward Teach

14. What was first published in Edinburgh, as three volumes between 1768 and 1771?
Encyclopaedia Britannica

15.  In which Portuguese city did a massive earthquake kill up to 100,000 people in 1755?
Lisbon

16. What unusual name was given to the 1739 war in the Caribbean between Great Britain and Spain? 
War of Jenkins' Ear

17.  The Royal Crescent is a famous row of 30 terraced houses designed by John Wood and built in which city in Somerset between 1767 and 1774?
Bath

18.  Which British horse race, originally referred to as "A Sweepstake of 25 Guineas", had its title changed to what at a dinner party held in 1778 at the Red Lion Inn in Doncaster?
St Leger

19.  Historians generally consider whom, who led the government of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over twenty years from 1721, to be the first British prime minister?
Robert Walpole

20.  What invention by James Hargreaves in 1764 is said  to have brought on the Industrial Revolution?
Spinning jenny