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1 How many of Henry VIII wives lost their heads?
A 2 (King Henry VIII, To six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, Two divorced, two beheaded. Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard)
2 Who landed at Glenfinnan in 1745?
A Bonnie Prince Charlie (Prince Charles Edward Stuart )
3 Which war was fought between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Sardinia-Piedmont?
A The Crimean War, fought from October 1853 to February 1856
4 In the Second World War, whose double was Clifford James?
A Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
5 Who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassinaof President John F. Kennedy?
A Jack Ruby
6 Name the former British king who died in Paris in 1972.
A The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII
7 Who is the only US President to have resigned from office?
A Richard Nixon (as a result of the Watergate scandal)
8 Which US city was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929?
A Chicago
9 In which war was the My Lai massacre?
A The Vietnam War (The My Lai massacre was a war crime committed by United States Army personnel on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians)
10 In which year did the SAS storm the Iranian embassy?
A 1980 (The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy on Prince’s Gate in South Kensington, London)