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History 121002 is a selection of 10 questions. History 121002 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 The remains of which king do archaeologists believe they have found under a car park in Leicester?
A Richard III (A horse, my kingdom for a horse)
2 What commodity did Britain use to pay for imports from China, sparking two wars in the mid 19th century?
A Opium
3 Which monarch was crowned on Christmas Day 1066?
A William (I)
4 Which prolific composer was born in Salzburg on 27th January 1756?
A Mozart (Wolfgang Amadeus)
5 In what occupation would someone be employed if they used a lamp invented by Sir Humphry Davy in 1815?
A Coal miner (the lamp allowed miners to work safely in the presence of flammable gases)
6 Which U.S. General accepted the unconditional surrender of Japan on 2nd September 1945?
A General Douglas McArthur
7 The Babington plot of 1586 intended to install who on the English throne?
A Mary Queen of Scots, it led to her execution (a Catholic plot in 1586 to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, a Protestant)
8 What historical event began with the storming of the Bastille?
A The French Revolution (1789)
9 Queen Boadicea led which tribe in an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire?
A The Iceni or Eceni (they occupied land that roughly corresponds to modern-day Norfolk)
10 King Henry VIII had six wives, but which of his wives had four husbands?
A Catherine Parr (Sir Edward Borough, John Neville, Henry VIII, and Thomas Seymour)