History Pub Quiz 260608

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1. Q: In which year did the BBC transmit its first outside radio broadcast?
   A: 1923. An opera from Covent Garden.
2. Q: What was known as “Inheritance powder” in the 19th century?
   A: Arsenic, specifically white arsenic (arsenic trioxide). It earned this notorious reputation because it was a popular, nearly undetectable tool used by people looking to hasten their inheritance by killing wealthy relatives, spouses, or older family members.
3. Q: In which year did the British Empire become the British Commonwealth of Nations by the Statute of Westminster?
   A: December 11, 1931. This act legally established the legislative independence of the self-governing Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Irish Free State, and Newfoundland) from the United Kingdom.
4. Q: In which year did a Serbian nationalist assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo?
   A: 1914. Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo because Serbian nationalists wanted to free Bosnia from Austro-Hungarian rule and unite South Slavs. They viewed the Archduke as a threat to their independence and a goal of a Slavic state, a goal secret groups like the Black Hand supported, which ultimately triggered World War I through a series of alliances and ultimatums.
5. Q: Mary Ann Nichols was whose first victim?
   A: Jack the Ripper. Found on August 31, 1888, in Buck’s Row, Whitechapel, her murder initiated the “Autumn of Terror” in London’s East End, with her death marked by a slashed throat and severe abdominal mutilations.
6. Q: Which electronic, programmable, and digital computer was Alan Turing’s codebreaking device at Bletchley Park?
   A: Colossus, designed by engineer Tommy Flowers.
7. Q: What was the official secret political police of Nazi Germany?
   A: The Gestapo (short for Geheime Staatspolizei).
8. Q: Which other major media event overshadowed ITV’s launch night in 1955?
   A: Grace Archer died in a stable fire. The episode drew a massive audience of 20 million listeners and successfully pulled public attention and newspaper headlines away from the UK’s first commercial television broadcast.
9. Q: Which major historical event added to the celebrations of Elizabeth II’s Coronation?
   A:  Explorers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of the world’s highest peak on May 29, 1953. However, the news did not reach London until June 2—the exact day of the Queen’s coronation.
10. Q: What World War II process had the code name “Operation Dynamo”?
    A: Evacuation of Dunkirk. World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, which took place between 26th May and 4th June 1940.