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History 130219 is a selection of 10 questions. History 130219 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 What event attracted visitors to London’s Hyde Park between 1st May and 15 October 1851?
A The Great Exhibition (of the Works of Industry of all Nations – sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition)
2 Who was the wife of the wife of King Louis XVI of France?
A Marie Antoinette
3 What stood at the junction of Bayswater Road and Edgware Road in London between 1388 and 1793?
A Tyburn gallows (the site is commemorated by three small brass triangles set in the paving of a traffic island there) (Marble Arch is close to the site of the Tyburn gallows but hasn’t anything to do with that)
4 From what region of modern-day France was King William, the victor at the Battle of Hastings?
A Normandy
5 Which important telephone service began in Britain on 1st July 1937?
A 999 Emergency service
6 Where did explorer Captain Cook make his first landing on the continent of Australia in 1770?
A Botany Bay
7 Over 300,000 gallons of what surged down the streets of Holborn on the 17th of October 1814, killing at least 9 people?
A Beer (collapse of the brewing vats on the roof of the Meaux Brewery on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street where the Dominion Theatre is now)
8 Due to Britain’s ongoing war with Napoleon, what did PM William Pitt introduce in 1798 as a “temporary measure”?
A Income tax
9 What nationality was Bonnie Prince Charlie, the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745?
A Italian (Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart)
10 With which nation was the USA at war when in 1814 they set fire to the Whitehouse and much of Washington DC?
A United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (yes, the British burned down the Whitehouse)