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Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who was the prime minister of the UK for most of the Second World War?
Churchill
Roosevelt
Kennedy
Thatcher
Who was caught red-handed trying to blow up parliament in 1605?
John Wright
Guy Fawkes
Robert Catesby
Thomas Winter
Which liner sank on her maiden voyage in 1912?
The Mary Rose
HMS Victory
RMS Titanic
HMS Britannic
Which city did the ancient Greeks by legend besiege for 10 years?
Troy
Alexandria
Persia
Rome
How many wives did Henry VIII have?
3
5
4
6
Why did Henry VIII want to divorce Anne of Cleves right after marrying her?
She was ugly
She lied about her wealth
She was already married
She smelled bad
Ancient Egyptians retained organs after mummification to prepare you for the afterlife. Which organ did they throw away as they thought it was useless?
Heart
Liver
Brain
Lungs
Which King was killed by an arrow in his eye? (allegedly)
Harold Godwin
William Duke of Hastings
Edward the Confessor
Harold Hardrada
An act of 1864 outlawed children doing what job?
Servant
Chimney sweep
Mining
Working in a factory
What event affected London in September 1666?
The Plague
The Great Fire
Jack the ripper
The fog
Spitfires and Hurricanes are types of?
Natural disasters
Guns
Planes
Submarines
Where did the Olympics originate?
Greece
Italy
Cyprus
Spain
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the USA?
Ireland
Germany
Britain
France
When was the USA Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
1780
1870
1666
How long did it take the Titanic to sink?
8 hours 20 minutes
1 hour 8 minutes
56 minutes
2 hours 40 minutes
Castles were first built in England after which event?
Julius Caesar's invasion
The Battle of Agincourt
The Norman Conquest
The Spanish Armada
What were the earliest castles made of?
Brick
Earth and wood
Sand and pebbles
Concrete
What is another name for the Black Death?
Butonic Plague
Bucolic Plague
Bulimic Plague
Bubonic Plague
How was the Black Death spread?
Fleas
Flies
drinking dirty water
open sewers
What weapon was used for the first time during the second battle of Ypres in WW1?
machine guns
Grenades
Tanks
poison gas
Which philosopher encouraged change in France prior to the revolution?
Arthur Rimbaud
Immanuel Kant
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Between 1787 and 1789 France suffered from what?
Earthquakes
Mass immigration
Poor Harvests
All of the above
What type of people are called 'bourgeois'?
Middle-class
Nobleman
Peasants
Priests
Which of these did the Romans bring to Britain?
apples
nettles
pigs
snakes
What was Stonehenge built for?
It is a clock
it is a calendar
it is a theatre
no one really knows
Who was Dick Turpin?
The man who discovered turnips
a highwayman
the person who invented custard creams
the man who tried to blow up Parliament
What was Henry VIII's nickname?
The Grumpy Monarch
Heavy Henry
Old Coppernose
Sir Earsalot
Who was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics?
Greta Thunberg
Rosalind Franklin
Marie Curie
Grace Hopper
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Rakesh Sharma
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Charles Conrad
When was William Shakespeare born?
1564
1499
1680
1920
Powdered beetle was used by some Victorians as a remedy to promote… what?
The likelihood that you would give birth to a boy
A healthy liver
A positive outlook on life
Hair Growth
The most prolific sniper of the Second World War, with more than 500 ‘kills’, came from which country?
USA
Germany
Finland
France
Although we now know him as Tutankhamun, this was not his original name. What was it?
Tutankhaten
Akhanamun
Tutankhoren
Nebkhamun
How many people in total died during the Irish Potato Famine?
2 million
1 million
2 thousand
1 thousand
How long did it take to build the Titanic?
2 years
1 year
3 years
4 months
How many bathtubs were available for third-class passengers on the Titanic?
2
15
36
65
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian scientist, famous for trying to create a hybrid of which two species?
a human and a chimpanzee
a dog and a cat
a tiger and a lion
a horse and a cow
What was the name of the infamous Nazi scientist who conducted strange and twisted experiments on innocent Jewish prisoners during WW2?
Josef Mengele
Hermann Goering
Joseph Goebbels
Rudolf Hess
Which of Henry's VIII's wives were beheaded?
Anne of Cleves
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Catherine Parr
The Russian Royal Family were shot dead in 1918. Who was rumoured to have survived?
Anastasia
Maria
Olga
Alexei
