Key Historical Event Quiz No. 2

[Carl]

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

• 1. Cyprus becomes an independent nation, free of British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios as President

• 2. Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba

• 3. Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles

• 4. The Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon

• 5. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia

• 6. British film stars Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time)

• 7. British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt

• 8. The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

• 9. The Global Commission for the Eradication of Small Pox announces that the world is free of the disease

• 10. C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

• 11. Watson & Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA

• 12. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to travel in space, orbiting the earth once in Vostok 1

• 13. Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI

• 14. More than 7,000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi

• 15. Baseball star Joe Dimaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, but the marriage only lasts a year

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

[gail]

7. 1964 ish
13. 1952 (coronation 1953)

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. Cyprus becomes an independent nation, free of British colonial rule, with Archbishop Makarios as President 1960

• 2. Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba 1959

• 3. Andy Warhol creates a stir when his paintings of Campbell's soup cans are exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles 1962

• 4. The Swedish tennis player Bjorn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon 1976

• 5. Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia 1970

• 6. British film stars Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first time) 1964

• 7. British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt 1966

• 8. The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 1967

• 9. The Global Commission for the Eradication of Small Pox announces that the world is free of the disease 1979

• 10. C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe 1950

• 11. Watson & Crick publish their discovery of the structure of DNA 1953

• 12. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to travel in space, orbiting the earth once in Vostok 1 1961

• 13. Elizabeth II succeeds her father, George VI 1952

• 14. More than 7,000 life-size terracotta solders are unearthed at Xi'an, placed to guard the tomb of the third century BC Chinese emperor Shi Huangdi 1974

• 15. Baseball star Joe Dimaggio marries Marilyn Monroe, but the marriage only lasts a year 1954