The History Room quiz: October 2019
The History Room quiz: October 2019
The History Room quiz: October 2019
Which law was passed in the USA 100 years ago this month?
Which name has been used most times by a Pope?
Why are the Dark Ages so called?
Which US president had a sign on his desk reading ‘The buck stops here’?
His mother was Henriette, his father was Heinrich and his wife was Jenny.
Whose last words were lost forever because his nurse did not understand German?
The first jet plane aerial dogfight took place in which war?
What was the nickname of the
B-17 bomber in WWII?
Complete the WWII slogan:
“Loose lips…
Which Japanese battle cry literally translates to “ten thousand years”?
How many American presidents have been assassinated?
Which town was the administrative capital of unoccupied France from 1940 to 1944?
Which novel got Salman Rushie into a lot of trouble in 1989?
Which is the world’s oldest continuous standing army, founded in 1248?
Which agency was the predecessor of the CIA?
Who is in the picture?
In 1974, Teruo Nakamura became the last Japanese soldier
to do what?
Who thought he might earn £20,000 by surrendering West Point to the British in 1780?
Which former head of the Soviet Union is still alive?
Considered to be the world’s first horror movie, released in 1910, its title was…?