History 141125

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1   Whose poster portrait encouraged Britons to enlist in the army during the First World War?
A   Earl Kitchener (Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Secretary of State for War)

2   In which country was the Battle of Waterloo fought in 1815.
A   Belgium

3   By what nickname was the notorious 18th century pirate Edward Teach better known?
A   Blackbeard

4   What was the nickname of François Duvalier, the controversial former President of the Caribbean country Haiti?
A   Papa Doc (in power between 1957 and 1971)

5   Which astronomer did the Roman Catholic Church charge with heresy in 1633 just for stating the earth orbits the sun?
A   Galileo Galilei (Catholics believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe

6   What was the name of Yuri Gagarin’s spacecraft in which the first human spaceflight in history took place in April 1961?
A   Vostok I

7   What world famous discovery did Howard Carter make on 4th November 1922?
A   The tomb of Tutankhamen

8   During World War II what was the name for a German tank division?
A   Panzer (German: Panzerdivision)

9   The assassination of John F. Kennedy was on 22nd November 1963; on what date, did Jack Ruby murder the chief suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald?
A   24th November 1963 (U.S. attorney G. Robert Blakey, said in 1979, “The most plausible explanation for the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby was that Ruby had stalked him on behalf of organized crime, trying to reach him on at least three occasions in the 48 hours before he silenced him forever.”)

10   In which country were the World War II Battles of El Alamein?
A   Egypt (northern coast, 1–27 July 1942 & 23 October–11 November 1942)