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Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 25 Aug 2022 21:22
by 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.

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 25 Aug 2022 22:51
by elcarretero
3 Salman Rushdie
4 Florence Nightingale

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 26 Aug 2022 08:24
by gail
8. Norway

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 26 Aug 2022 08:49
by elcarretero
7 Genoa

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 26 Aug 2022 19:02
by LucindaC
10 607
11 Reagan

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 26 Aug 2022 22:42
by elcarretero
1 John Boyd Dunlop

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 27 Aug 2022 09:55
by freddo
1 Robert William Thomson
9 Indira Gandhi

Re: Random History Quiz No. 1

Posted: 01 Sep 2022 21:01
by 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