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History 117818 is a selection of 10 questions. History 117818 is the filename to differentiate it from other History quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 To which island was Napoleon I exiled after his defeat at Waterloo?
A St Helena
2 Where in 1912 did the Veranda Café, Palm Court and Café Parisian all close down on the same night due to extensive flooding?
A RMS Titanic
3 What caused thousands to starve to death in the great Irish famine of 1845?
A Failure of the potato crop
4 Whose last stand was against Sitting Bull and the Sioux at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?
A George Armstrong Custer
5 Who on the night of 4-5 November 1605, was arrested in the vaults of the Houses of parliament?
A Guy Fawkes
6 In 1982, Héctor Bonzo was the last Captain of which Argentinian ship?
A General Belgrano
7 Who was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg in July 1918?
A The ex-Tsar Nicholas Romanov, along with his entire family
8 On which warship did Japan formally surrender in World War II?
A Missouri
9 The Danes were beaten at the Battle of Ashdown in 871 AD, by forces under the command of which famous king?
A Alfred.
10 How many ships to the nearest 10 were there in the Spanish Armada of 1588?
A 130