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History 121113 is a selection of 10 questions. History 121113 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 In which county did the Great Train Robbery take place?
A Buckinghamshire (Thursday 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire)
2 Which company opened its first British Burger Restaurant in 1954?
A Wimpy (the brand was created in Chicago in the 1930s and is named after Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons)
3 What year did Pan Am flight 103 explode over Lockerbie?
A 1988.
4 In which year did the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl explode?
A 1986. On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading to an explosion and fire that demolished the reactor building and released large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.
5 In what year did the US end its military involvement in the Vietnam War?
A 1973 (15th August)
6 The Korean War began in 1950. In which year did it end?
A 1953, with the signing of an armistice agreement, though no peace treaty has ever been signed.
7 In which year did front seatbelt wearing become compulsory for drivers and passengers?
A 1983
8 In which year did the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly turn the Cold War into a nuclear conflict?
A 1962 (16th – 28th October)
9 In which year did Rupert Murdoch cause a bitter industrial dispute by summarily dismissing thousands of his employees?
A 1986, the Wapping dispute, which involved the move of his newspaper operations to a new plant in Wapping, East London.
10 Which year saw the deaths of Princess Margaret and her mother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother?
A 2002 (seven weeks apart, with Margaret dying first)