GREAT BRITISH BANK HOLIDAY HISTORY QUIZ
Think you know your kings, queens and PMs? How about sports and culture? Puzzler ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD is back with more tricky trivia...
1 Where was the last pitched battle fought on British soil?
2 Who was prime minister both before and after Edward Heath?
3 In which decade was the first flight of the Concorde?
4 Who were the first two men to summit Mount Everest?
5 Who invented the telephone?
6 Which English king was defeated at the Battle of Hastings?
7 Did the Hundred Years’ War last exactly, more or less than 100 years?
8 What modern city was called Camulodunum by the Romans?
9 How long were HenryVIII’s longest and shortest of his six marriages?
10 In what year did King John sign the first Magna Carta?
11 When did Winston Churchill become Prime Minister for the first time?
12 What name was given to the Great Rising of 1381?
13 What started at a bakery on Pudding Lane in 1666?
14 Which country did Britain fight in theWar Of Jenkin’s Ear?
15 Who was crowned as the first king of all England?
16 In which year did King HenryVIII instigate the split from Rome?
17 What was the first pitched battle of the English Civil War?
18 Which Battle of Britain ace flew despite having lost both his legs?
19 Was Princess Diana older or younger than 35 when she died?
20 York was the first English city to be settled by which conquerors?
21 What was Richard I’s nickname?
22 In which century did Australia gain independence from Britain?
23 When did women over 30 get the right to vote in the UK?
24 How long was Margaret Thatcher prime minister for?
25 Which English kingdom did Offa rule?
26 Whose ship was HMS Victory?
27 Which political party contested power with the Tories between the 1680s and 1850s?
28 In which three years were the Olympics held in London? 29 Which monarch reigned the longest in English history?
30 Which island did Britain exile Napoleon to before his death?
31 Who was prime minister during the Suez crisis?
32 In which century wasWilliam the Conqueror crowned King of England?
33 Which prime minister pursued the controversial policy of appeasement in the 1930s?
34 In which century was theWar of American Independence?
35 Which Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered?
36 In which month of 1914 did the
First World War begin?
37 On what date did Britain enter into the First World War?
38 Who famously travelled on
HMS Beagle?
39 What is celebrated on September 15?
40 Who oversaw the translation of the Bible into English?
41 Who was King of England from 1166 until 1216?
42 Which British recordbreaker died on Coniston Lake on January 5, 1967?
43 What battle of 1704 was the Duke of Marlborough’s most famous victory?
44 What was the final score in England’s 1966 World Cup win over West Germany?
45 What was the name of the Duke of Wellington’s horse?
46 Which English Monarch was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
47 Who did the English defeat at the Battle of Flodden in 1513?
48 In which battle did The Charge of the Light Brigade occur?
49 In which decade was the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, raised?
50 Who was the last Briton to win the Wimbledon’s men’s singles final? 51 When did the UK invade Iraq as part of the US-led coalition?
52 Which British submarine sank General Belgrano during the FalklandsWar?
53 Which English statesman, politician and soldier took control after Charles I was deposed?
54 Where is Skara Brae, Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village?
55 Which English author created Hobbits?
56 Who lived at Haworth Parsonage in West Yorkshire?
57 Who was Britain’s first prime minister?
58 Which English king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?
59 Who was the last viceroy of India?
60 Which British politician was killed in an IRA bomb attack at the House of Commons in March 1979?
61 What name did the three English kings, who came between Henry III and Richard II, share?
62 Where in 1982 was The Battle of Goose Green? 63 Between which two royal families were the Wars of the Roses fought?
64 Who was most famously caught with the gunpowder in 1605?
65 Which Welsh politician became PM half-way through the FirstWorldWar?
66 By what is 617 Squadron commonly known for its wartime exploits?
67 Who was the first Tudor monarch?
68 Which famous diarist buried his wine and parmesan cheese in his back garden to save it from the Great Fire of London? 69 Who became king after EdwardVIII’s abdication?
70 What was the nickname given to Margaret Thatcher?
71 In which year was the Battle of Britain?
72 Who was the last governor of
Hong Kong before its sovereignty to China on June 30, 1997?
73 Whose house was known as Number One London?
74 In which century did the Industrial Revolution begin?
75 In what year did the Brexit Referendum take place?
76 On what date was D-Day, the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy to begin the liberation of Europe, launched on?
77 Where did the Empire Windrush dock on June 22, 1948, bringing Caribbean citizens to the United Kingdom?
78 In which year was the Scottish Independence referendum held?
79 Which German cipher device was cracked by Alan Turing?
80 Who was the prime minister before Margaret Thatcher?
81 In which country wasWilliam III of England born?
82 Name the bass player and drummer who were originally in the Beatles
83 Between which two English cities was the world’s first steam-powered passenger railway?
84 Who is buried at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore?
85 Who did Anne Hathaway marry in 1582?
86 Which British prime minister oversaw the creation of the NHS?
87 What legislation on July 1, 2007, changed our pubs and workplaces forever?
88 What did James Dyson originally become famous for making?
89 Which prime minister followed Tony Blair?
90 Which British general won the Second Battle of El Alamein?
91 In what year was the General Strike?
92 Who is the only British prime minister to have been assassinated?
93 What was the name of the former Royal Yacht?
94 Who was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in February 1587?
95 In what year did Britain join the European Economic Community?
96 In 1829, who founded London’s Metropolitan Police?
97 What was the name of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic ship?
98 Who was the Cavern Club coat girl who later found fame with hits including AnyoneWho Had a Heart?
99 Who wrote Howards End?
100 Which is the “cruellest month”, according to T S Elliot’s epic poem,
The Wasteland?
●●Adam Jacot de Boinod was a researcher for the first BBC series of QI and is an author of three books including The Meaning Of Tingo