Key Historical Event Quiz No. 1

[Carl]

Below are 15 key historical events. Can you name the year the event took place ?

• 1. Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb

• 2. US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics

• 3. 18 year old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzeneggar becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World & Mr Universe)

• 4. Duel, about a motorist terriorised by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood

• 5. 18 year old pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It

• 6. US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9mts that will stand for 23 years

• 7. The Conservatives under Winston Churchill win the general election

• 8. Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state

• 9. France vetoes Britain's entry to the European Common Market

• 10. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all 3 US charts

• 11. George Lucas writes and directs a science fiction fantasy, Star Wars

• 12. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight

• 13. School friends Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded a software firm, calling it Microsoft

• 14. World's first test-tube baby is born in Oldham

• 15. Commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast

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

[gail]

14. Louise Brown

[LucindaC]

5 1958

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb 1957

• 2. US swimmer Mark Spitz wins seven gold medals in the Munich Olympics 1972

• 3. 18 year old Austrian body-builder Arnold Schwarzeneggar becomes Junior Mr Europe (on his way to Mr World & Mr Universe) 1965

• 4. Duel, about a motorist terriorised by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood 1971

• 5. 18 year old pop singer Cliff Richard has his first hit single with Move It 1958

• 6. US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9mts that will stand for 23 years 1968

• 7. The Conservatives under Winston Churchill win the general election 1951

• 8. Henry Kissinger, previously head of the National Security Council, is appointed US secretary of state 1973

• 9. France vetoes Britain's entry to the European Common Market 1963

• 10. Heartbreak Hotel, Elvis Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all 3 US charts 1956

• 11. George Lucas writes and directs a science fiction fantasy, Star Wars 1977

• 12. Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner, makes its maiden flight 1969

• 13. School friends Bill Gates & Paul Allen founded a software firm, calling it Microsoft 1975

• 14. World's first test-tube baby is born in Oldham 1978

• 15. Commercial television starts with the first ITV broadcast 1953