History 110920

History 110920 is a selection of 10 questions. History 110920 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   Which people conquered England in 1066?
A   The Normans (Norman Conquest, the military conquest of England by William, duke of Normandy, primarily effected by his decisive victory at the Battle of Hastings 14th October 1066)

2   Which famous explorer sailed in the ‘Santa Maria’?
A   Christopher Columbus (the Santa María, a carrack owned and captained by Juan de la Cosa, under Columbus’s direct command)

3   What is the name of the book of quotations and writings of Mao Zedong, in which he adapted Marxist theory to Chinese conditions?
A   Little Red Book (officially entitled in English translations “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung”)

4   Which English king is associated with the carrack-type naval warship ‘Mary Rose’?
A   Henry VIII (sunk in battle in 1545, raised on 11th October 1982)

5   Which premiership football club was formally Ardwick FC, before adopting their present name in 1894?
A   Manchester City

6   Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon were the first people to see what in 1922.
A   The inside of the tomb of Tutankhamen (The Carnarvon family seat is Highclere Castle in Hampshire, which is the setting for ITV’s Downton Abbey)

7   Who was President of the United States when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon?
A   Richard Nixon

8   Which country suffered during its Revolution a Reign of Terror between 1793 and 1794?
A   France

9   Who was the last Saxon king of England?
A   King Harold ( II ) – (Harold Godwinson reigned from 6th January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14th 1066)

10   Who was the leader of the USSR when Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space?
A   Nikita Krushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev)