Random History Quiz No. 1

[Carl]

• 1. Who invented the modern tyre ?

• 2. Who found the long lost explorer David Livingston ?

• 3. Ayatollah Khomeini called for a fatwa on which author of 1988's "The Satanic Verses" ?

• 4. What was known as the Lady of the Lamp ?

• 5. What year did the Jallianwahla Bagh massacre occur ?

• 6. Which number King Louis was king of France when the storming of the Bastille took place ?

• 7. Which Italian city did Christopher Columbus claim he was born in ?

• 8. Which country has been donating London's Trafalgar's Square's Christmas tree since 1947 ?

• 9. Which Indian prime minister was assassinated by two of her bodyguards ?

• 10. How many people survived the sinking of the Titanic ?

• 11. What U.S. President worked as a lifeguard ?

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

3 Salman Rushdie
4 Florence Nightingale

[gail]

8. Norway

[elcarretero]

7 Genoa

[LucindaC]

10 607
11 Reagan

[elcarretero]

1 John Boyd Dunlop

[freddo]

1 Robert William Thomson
9 Indira Gandhi

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Who invented the modern tyre ? John Boyd Dunlop

• 2. Who found the long lost explorer David Livingston ? Henry Morton Stanley

• 3. Ayatollah Khomeini called for a fatwa on which author of 1988's "The Satanic Verses" ? Salman Rushdie

• 4. What was known as the Lady of the Lamp ? Florence Nightingale

• 5. What year did the Jallianwahla Bagh massacre occur ? 1919

• 6. Which number King Louis was king of France when the storming of the Bastille took place ? XVI

• 7. Which Italian city did Christopher Columbus claim he was born in ? Genoa

• 8. Which country has been donating London's Trafalgar's Square's Christmas tree since 1947 ? Norway

• 9. Which Indian prime minister was assassinated by two of her bodyguards ? Indira Gandhi

• 10. How many people survived the sinking of the Titanic ? 706

• 11. What U.S. President worked as a lifeguard ? Ronald Reagan