Quiz History

1 Paul Merton and Ian Hislop have served as the team captains on what British panel show since the 1990s?

2 Anaheim, home to the Disneyland Resort, is a city in which American state?

3 What former mixed martial artist, famous for her stint in the UFC, went by the nickname “Rowdy”?

4 What music company introduced its iconic Stratocaster guitar in 1954?

5 The Soviet Union and what other world power supported North Korea in the Korean War, fought between 1950 and 1953? 1858 The joint reading is held of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society

1863 The pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, begins in Pennsylvania.

1867 Canada became a selfgoverning dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.

1903 The first Tour de France begins. (It ends July 19; the winner is Maurice Garin.)

1905 Albert Einstein introduces his theory of special relativity

1908 SOS (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help

1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)

1944 Delegates from 44 countries begin meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they agree to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

1997 Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.

2004 Actor Marlon Brando dies in Los Angeles at age 80.

2015 After more than a half-century of hostility, the United States and Cuba declare they will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, marking a historic full restoration of diplomatic relations between the Cold War foes.

2019 15-year-old Coco Gauff, the youngest player to qualify at Wimbledon in the professional era, defeats 39-year-old Venus Williams in the first round, 6-4, 6-4.