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20世紀を振り返る択一クイズの問題
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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 |