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People in History 160209 is a selection of 10 questions. People in History 160209 is the filename to differentiate it from other People 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 At what type of shop did the Great Fire of London start in 1666?
A Bakery (Pudding Lane near London Bridge)
2 Which two items of clothing originated from the Crimean War?
A Balaclava and Cardigan (Battle of Balaclava and James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade)
3 Who was the Argentinean General who led the military junta in the 1982 seizure of the Falkland Islands?
A Leopoldo Galtieri
4 In which year did an earthquake and subsequent firestorm destroy more than 80% of San Francisco?
A 1906 (April 18th)
5 Who was Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe throughout the Second World War?
A Hermann Wilhelm Göring
6 Which Roman statesman fathered Cleopatra’s son, Ptolemy XV?
A Julius Caesar
7 Which government agency administered the Soviet forced labour camp systems during the Stalin era?
A Gulag (Russian: ГУЛаг)
8 In which month of 1963 was the assassination of John F Kennedy?
A November (22nd)
9 What was the surname of the French brothers whose hot-air balloon made the first-ever manned flight in 1783?
A Montgolfier (Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne)
10 Which American industrialist became the world’s first billionaire in September 1916?
A John D. Rockefeller