- Who was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons?
- What was the biggest hoax perpetrated in 1912 (although not discovered for some 40 years)?
- Which country was ruled by a king called William the Lion?
- Which Swedish prime minister was assassinated in 1986?
- After which battle is Charles II supposed to have hidden in an oak tree?
- Who was our first Conservative (as opposed to Tory) prime minister?
- Who was president of Nicaragua from 1985 - 1990?
- Which French general did Wolfe defeat to take Quebec?
- The Rev. John Smith famously decoded ..... what?
- What was the first name of Russian president Brezhnev?
- St. Patrick’s, Dublin was the first to do what in 1918?
- What breed was Laika, the first dog in space?
- What title did William IV hold immediately prior to becoming king?
- George IV was by all accounts particularly found of which alcoholic drink?
- Après moi, le deluge (after us, the flood) – words attributed to which woman?
- Which African country was established as an independent colony in 1792 and became a home for former slaves?
- Whom did Harold Wilson meet aboard HMS Tiger in 1966?
- The St Valentine’s Day Massacre is well remembered, but which gangster’s men were the victims?
- The Turks were beaten at the battle of Megiddo in 1918 by which general?
- Which of the ‘wives’ of Henry VIII died last?
- In which year did Princess Margaret get married?
- Who was the last British king to die on the field of battle?
- Name the English king who met a particularly painful end at Berkeley castle
- What name was given the first complete bible printed in America and published 1663?
- At which battle did Lord Nelson lose his life?
- Which king famously tried sitting on a beach and ordering the waves to turn back?
- What was the name of Christopher Columbus’s flagship?
- What name was given the force commanded by Orde Wingate in Burma in WW2?
- Which Dutchman discovered and first rounded Cape Horn?
- Who was Britain’s first Jewish MP?
ANSWERS
- Betty Boothroyd
- Piltdown Man
- Scotland
- Olof Palme
- Worcester
- Robert Peel
- Daniel Ortega
- Montcalm
- Samuel Pepys' diary
- Leonid
- Elect a female MP (who didn’t take her seat)
- Samoyed (husky)
- Duke of Clarence
- Cherry brandy
- Madame de Pompadour
- Sierra Leone (not Liberia)
- Ian Smith
- Bugs Moran
- Allenby (World War I)
- Anne of Cleves
- 1960
- James IV (of Scotland)
- Edward II
- The Eliot OR Indian bible
- Trafalgar
- Canute
- Santa Maria
- Chindits
- (Willem) Schouten (with Jakob Le Maire)
- (Lionel) Rothschild
