TEN ON TIMES PAST

1 In what country will you find the site of the Battle of Waterloo?

2 Can you name the famous woman who was burned at the stake for heresy in 1431?

3 What American president said that America was a house divided against

itself?

4 The Suez Canal was opened in 1869 with a performance of what

famous opera?

5 Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is dedicated to who?

6 Which queen reputedly said, ‘let them eat cake’?

7 Can you name the city that Christopher Columbus was born in?

8 The Hymn to Freedom, written in 1823 and adopted in 1864, is the national anthem of what country?

9 What South American country takes its name from an Inca word meaning Land of Abundance?

10 Name the English king who was known as The Confessor?