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Key Historical Event Quiz No. 2

Posted: 04 Jan 2024 21:04

by 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.

Re: Key Historical Event Quiz No. 2

Posted: 05 Jan 2024 08:46

by gail

7. 1964 ish
13. 1952 (coronation 1953)

Re: Key Historical Event Quiz No. 2

Posted: 11 Jan 2024 21:02

by 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