Block C Questions : History

1.       Which American soldier and politician addressed the American Congress in 1790 with the words: “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace”?

2.       Established in 1872 as a railhead on the Santa Fe Trail, which settlement gained a reputation as a rowdy frontier town and was known as the “Cowboy Capital”?

3.       In 1909, when Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, which body did he deride as a “body of 500 men, chosen accidentally from among the unemployed”?

4.       Which event was celebrated in Leni Riffenstahl’s 1935 film ‘Triumph of the Will’?

5.       At the time of the 1992 general election, which four words completed The Sun newspaper’s front page headline: “If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please….”?

6.       Which practice was defined as a felony by an act of parliament of 1542, the last English trial for the offence being held in 1712, before the act was repealed in 1736?

7.       Which territory was surrendered by the British army officer Lieutenant-General Percival to General Tomoyuki Yamashita of Japan on February 15^th 1942?

8.       “All I know is that I am not a Marxist”. To whom did Frederick Engels attribute these words, in a letter of 1890 to Conrad Schmidt?

9.       What name is the Greek for ‘Goddess Loving her Father’, and has been given to several Egyptian queens, including the 2^nd daughter of Ptolemy the 12^th, who committed suicide in 30 BC?

10.   Which battle of World War one was fought on the traditional site of Armageddon in Palestine, and saw the British under Sir Edmund Allenby defeat the Turks and effectively go on to end the Ottoman Empire?

11.   Which Asian country was reunified on July 2^nd 1976, 22 years after it had been partitioned?

12.   Complete the quotation, attributed to Margot Asquith:”..if Kitchener was not a great man, he was at least a great….”.

13.   What name of Spanish origin was the family name of Pope Alexander the sixth, elected to the see in 1492? The name is usually associated with political intrigue due to the activities of his children Cesare and Lucrezia.

14.   ‘Camelot’ has been popularly used to signify which political administration of the 1960s?

15.   Which writer and naval administrator was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty in 1672, and was deprived of his post in 1679 and imprisoned in the Tower of London for his alleged complicity in the Popish Plot; he was reappointed in 1684?

16.   The Hundred Years War ended in 1453 in the time of Henry VI, and began during the reign of which English Monarch?

17.   The Academie Francaise was founded in 1635 by which prelate and statesman, who inscribed the words ‘To Immortality’ on its seal?

18.   What were the forenames of the mother of the US Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets, the names achieving a dubious distinction on August 6^th 1945?

19.   How is the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, when most of the 1,500 Cuban exiles who took part were captured or killed, better known?

20.   Which Spanish Conquistador arrived in Peru in 1532 and effectively heralded the end of the Inca Empire?

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