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| 1901 | Which much-loved monarch of Great Britain and the Empire died in that year? | ||
| A Edward VII | B Victoria | C George V | |
| 1902 | Which imperial war officially ended on 31st May? | ||
| A The Boer War | B The Tedious War | C The Dull War | |
| 1903 | What were the fast names of the pioneer aviators the Wright brothers? | ||
| A Wilbur and Orville | B Stan and Ollie | C Liam and Noel | |
| 1904 | Pavlov won a Nobel Prize for studying the digestion habits of which creatures? | ||
| A Horses | B Dogs | C Chelsea fans | |
| 1905 | Actors in the New York premiere of “The Wizard of Oz” were arrested for offending public morals. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1906 | Which noise pollutant was banned from the streets of London? | ||
| A Cockney street traders | B Promenade concerts | C Buses | |
| 1907 | Which state became the 46th of the United States? | ||
| A North Dakota | B Oklahoma | C New Mexico | |
| 1908 | For what major event was White City Stadium built? | ||
| A The first FA Cup | B The Olympic Games | C The London Whippet Derby | |
| 1909 | Which architect designed the Glasgow School of Arts revolutionary building? | ||
| A Edwin Lutyens | B Charles Rennie Mackintosh | C George Gilbert Scott | |
| 1910 | Henry Royce became the first British aircrash fatality at Bounemouth. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1911 | What property of metals at low temperatures was discovered by Heike Onnes? | ||
| A Superconductivity | B Phosphorescence | C Your hands stick to them | |
| 1912 | Elmer Sperry invented which device to make the lives of early flyers easier? | ||
| A Parachute | B Air hostess | C Automatic pilot | |
| 1913 | Which dancer and choreographer married Countess Romola? | ||
| A Shergar | B Arkle | C Nijinsky | |
| 1914 | Which protesting group vandalised the painting ‘The Rokeby Venus’? | ||
| A Pacifists | B Suffragettes | C Rail User Association | |
| 1915 | St Paul’s Cathedral was sold to the nation for £6,600. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1916 | The Pacific Aero Products Company was founded by which engineer? | ||
| A Douglas | B Lockheed | C Boeing | |
| 1917 | Lenin returned to Russia from exile in which city? | ||
| A Antwerp | B Marseilles | C Zurich | |
| 1918 | In which month did the Australian cavalry take the town of Jericho? | ||
| A January | B February | C November | |
| 1919 | Which Inn of Court admitted the first woman bar student? | ||
| A Gray’s Inn | B Lincoln’s Inn | C Middle Temple | |
| 1920 | Douglas Fairbanks married fellow screen star Lillian Gish. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1921 | What was offered to the Irish by the British government? | ||
| A A Free State | B Surrender or death | C A round of drinks | |
| 1922 | Clergyman’s son DeWitt Wallace published which magazine for the first time? | ||
| A The Reader’s Digest | B Popular Mechanics | C The Hollywood Enquirer | |
| 1923 | Who defeated West Ham in the first FA Cup Final held at Wembley? | ||
| A Blackburn Rovers | B Bolton Wanderers | C Blackpool Hooligans | |
| 1924 | Who won the US presidential election? | ||
| A Herbert Hoover | B Calvin Coolidge | C Warren Harding | |
| 1925 | At the annual Boat Race, Oxford sank first Cambridge then themselves. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1926 | Which chain of general stores was started in the US in March? | ||
| A Safeway | B Tesco | C Arkwright | |
| 1927 | About which animal did Henry Williamson write? | ||
| A Babar the Elephant | B Tarka the Otter | C Rupert the Bear | |
| 1928 | Which musical had its London premiere at the Drury Lane Theatre? | ||
| A Carousel | B The Pajama Game | C Show Boat | |
| 1929 | In which Balkan country did King Alexander establish a military dictatorship? | ||
| A Bulgaria | B Romania | C Yugoslavia | |
| 1930 | The Channel Tunnel Committee approved the idea of tunnel to link England and France. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1931 | Which famous art deco building was opened on New York’s Fifth Avenue? | ||
| A Flatiron Building | B Empire State Building | C Kong’s Gymnasium | |
| 1932 | For what were five men arrested on the moors of Kinder Scout in the Peak District? | ||
| A Sheep shearing | B Rambling | C Streaking | |
| 1933 | Whose bodyline tactics caused trouble between England and Australia? | ||
| A Aussie lifeguards | B English cricketers | C Edward, Prince of Wales | |
| 1934 | Who was the Austrian Chancellor killed by the Nazis during a failed coup? | ||
| A Engelbert Dollfuss | B Sacha Broomfest | C Charles Krankl | |
| 1935 | The chocolate bar Kit Kat was launched in this year. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1936 | Crown Prince Farouk was proclaimed king of which country? | ||
| A Egypt | B Jordan | C Syria | |
| 1937 | Whose coronation was the first to be televised? | ||
| A George V | B Edward VIII | C George VI | |
| 1938 | European leaders conferred at Munich over Hitler’s territorial demands on where? | ||
| A Poland | B Czechoslovakia | C Upper Canada | |
| 1939 | The Heinkel 178 was the first what to fly? | ||
| A Jet aircraft | B Practical helicopter | C Charter airline | |
| 1940 | Neither the Houses of Parliament nor Buckingham Palace were hit during the Blitz. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1941 | Who won a Best Actor Oscar for the World War I film ‘Sergeant York’? | ||
| A Spencer Tracy | B Burt Lancaster | C Gary Cooper | |
| 1942 | Which battle saw the decisive defeat of Japan’s aircraft carrier fleet? | ||
| A El Alamein | B Pearl Habor | C Midway | |
| 1943 | What did Joe Sheridan invent to make arrival at Shannon Airport more welcoming? | ||
| A Irish coffee | B Murphy’s stout | C Baileys Irish Cream | |
| 1944 | What was the codename for the D-Day landings in Normandy? | ||
| A Overcoat | B Overlord | C Overhere | |
| 1945 | Over 10 million servicemen from all nations died in World War II. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1946 | What did Winston Churchill say had divided Europe? | ||
| A A language problem | B An iron curtain | C Spain winning Eurovision | |
| 1947 | Which Princess was married in November? | ||
| A Elizabeth | B Margaret | C Grace | |
| 1948 | Colonel Hallaren became the first what of the United States Army? | ||
| A Female officer | B Female pilot | C Formerly male female | |
| 1949 | In which film did Joseph Cottern arrive in Vienna in search of Harry Lime? | ||
| A The Third Man | B The Gully | C The Silly Mid Off | |
| 1950 | The newly discovered Tollund Man was hailed as Europe’s Frank Sinatra. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1951 | Which African country became the first independent state created by the United Nations? | ||
| A Morocco | B Egypt | C Libya | |
| 1952 | What wreaked havoc in the Devon village of Lynmouth? | ||
| A Mods | B Property developers | C Floods | |
| 1953 | What was the nickname of Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta? | ||
| A Burning Spear | B Great Defender | C Fearless Hunter | |
| 1954 | Who wrote ‘Italian Food’, helping to change British attitudes to food? | ||
| A Jane Grigson | B Elizabeth David | C Fanny Craddock | |
| 1955 | Eamonn Andrews presented the first edition of ‘Crackerjack’. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1956 | What did Khrushchev reportedly say after arguing with Labour politician George Brown? | ||
| A I’d vote Tory. | B Siberia’s too good for him. | C Call that Socialism? | |
| 1957 | Which strain of flu swept Britain during that year? | ||
| A Spanish | B Asian | C Hong Kong | |
| 1958 | Which French Republic began under a new president, Charles de Gaulle? | ||
| A Third | B Fourth | C Fifth | |
| 1959 | Who burned up the charts with ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’? | ||
| A The Platters | B The Four Tops | C The Marlboro Men | |
| 1960 | Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at St Paul’s Cathedral. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1961 | The military fiasco of the Bay of Pigs was an attempted attack on where? | ||
| A Benidorm | B North Vietnam | C Cuba | |
| 1962 | What film was Marilyn Monroe making in the months before she died? | ||
| A The Seven Year Itch | B The Misfits | C Something’s Got To Give | |
| 1963 | What drink did 15-year-old Prince Charles buy in a hotel bar? | ||
| A Cherry brandy | B Harvey Wallbabger | C Moscow Mule | |
| 1964 | For conspiracy to do what was Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment? | ||
| A Repeal the Pass Laws | B Overthrow the state | C Run for Mayor of London | |
| 1965 | It was reported that The Beatles smoked cannabis in Buckingham Palace whilst waiting to collect their MBEs. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1966 | Who had a number one hit with ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anywhere’? | ||
| A Every Brothers | B Walker Brothers | C Golden Wonder Brothers | |
| 1967 | Which oil tanker ran aground off the Cornish coast? | ||
| A Amoco Cadiz | B Torrey Canyon | C Exxon Valdez | |
| 1968 | In which Las Angels hotel was Robert Kennedy fatally shot? | ||
| A Montgomery | B Ritz | C Ambassador | |
| 1969 | What was astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s real first name? | ||
| A Edwin | B Alain | C Second-Again | |
| 1970 | Alexander Solzenitsyn won the Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1971 | What rock anthem was released by Led Zeppelin on their fourth album? | ||
| A Paranoid | B Rocking All Over the World | C Stair way to Heaven | |
| 1972 | Nixon was the first US president to shake hands with who? | ||
| A A Soviet premier | B Chairman Mao | C A whitewash salesman | |
| 1973 | Which air show witnessed the crash of the Soviet Tupolev supersonic airline? | ||
| A Paris | B Farnborough | C Barnsley | |
| 1974 | Who did Muhammad Ali defeat in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’? | ||
| A Joe Fazier | B George Foreman | C Shere Khan | |
| 1975 | The people of Papua New Guinea finally gained independence from Portugal. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1976 | Which British McLaren driver won a Formula 1 world championship? | ||
| A John Waston | B Nigel Mansell | C James Hunt | |
| 1977 | How old was Elvis Presley when he died? | ||
| A 40 | B 42 | C 44 | |
| 1978 | Which advertising agency was behind the ‘Labour isn’t working’ poster campaign in the winter of discontent? | ||
| A Abbot Mead Vickers | B Lies R’Us | C Saatchi and Saatchi | |
| 1979 | In the song, what did Ian Dury and the Blackheads want to be ‘Hit with’? | ||
| A Your Rhythm Stick | B Your Baseball Bat | C Your Law Suit | |
| 1980 | War broke out in the Persian Gulf with Iran’s invasion of Iraq. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1981 | Who replaced Norman St John-Stevas as Leader of the Commons? | ||
| A Leon Brittan | B Michael Hesltine | C Fancis Pym | |
| 1982 | Which risque cartoon strip was brought to life in a BBC TV series? | ||
| A Fritz the Cat | B Jane | C George and Lynne | |
| 1983 | Which historian backed the authenticity of the bagus Hitler diaries? | ||
| A Alan Clark | B Lord Dacre | C Norman Davies | |
| 1984 | Which product massively changed the personal computing industry? | ||
| A The Macintosh | B The Anorak | C The Cagoule | |
| 1985 | Garry Kasparov was 19 when he won the world chess championship. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1986 | Which organisation enjoyed a Big Bang as deregulation reforms were implemented? | ||
| A Central Criminal Court | B Stock Exchange | C House of Lords | |
| 1987 | What name was given to the post-deregulation stock market collapse? | ||
| A Black Monday | B Black Wednesday | C Black Eye | |
| 1988 | What finally opened all day in Britain? | ||
| A Banks | B Public houses | C Slough | |
| 1989 | What book earner Salman Rushdie a fatwa rather than the usual positive reviews? | ||
| A The Moorish Scriptures | B Ayatollah You So | C The Satanic Verses | |
| 1990 | British and French tunnellers met under the English Channel this year. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1991 | Who was the first British woman in space? | ||
| A Natalie Portman | B Helen Sharman | C Cerys Matthews | |
| 1992 | Who admitted that the year had been an ‘annus horribilis’? | ||
| A Margaret Thatcher | B Queen Elizabeth II | C George Bush | |
| 1993 | Who led the Branch Dravidian cult to a shootout with the authorities at Waco, Texas? | ||
| A James Jones | B Edward Bundy | C David Koresh | |
| 1994 | Whose pet named Pooh caused a tabloid sensation by going missing? | ||
| A John Major | B Prince Charles | C The Duchess of York | |
| 1995 | An airbone doctor used Austrian wine to sterilise instruments for emergency surgery on a fellow traveller. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
| 1996 | Who admitted to taking lifts during an around-the-world walk? | ||
| A Ffyond Campbell | B Claire Ferguson | C Ian Botham | |
| 1997 | Tony Blair became Britain’s youngest prime minister since when? | ||
| A 1782 | B 1812 | C I was a lad. | |
| 1998 | Which newspaper bought the ‘Tamworth Two’? | ||
| A The Mirror | B The Daily Express | C The Daily Mail | |
| 1999 | Which veteran singer released the album Twenty Four Seven? | ||
| A Tina Turner | B Cher | C Annie Lennox | |
| 2000 | The film company 20th Century Fox changed its name to 21st Century Fox on 1st January 2000. | ||
| A True | B False | ||
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