History Pub Quiz 260501

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1. Q: What sort of tax did the British government levy between 1695/1696 and 1851?
   A: Window Tax, a direct property tax based on the number of windows in a house. Introduced under King William III in 1696, it was designed as a tax on wealth that targeted wealthier citizens—who could afford houses with many windows—without the controversy surrounding an income tax.
2. Q: Which famous embroidery commemorates the Norman Conquest of England in 1066?
   A: Bayeux Tapestry. Despite being called a tapestry, it is actually an embroidery (needlework) featuring wool yarn stitched onto a linen cloth.
3. Q: In which London restaurant was there a five-day siege in 1975?
   A: Spaghetti House in Knightsbridge. The incident began as an attempted robbery of the restaurant’s weekly takings. When the robbery went wrong, three gunmen held nine staff members hostage in a basement storeroom.
4. Q: In which year was the Irish Potato Famine?
   A: 1845 to 1852.  The worst year of the famine was 1847, which became known as “Black ’47”.
5. Q: Which British monarch had the nickname “Farmer George”?
   A: King George III (reigned 1760–1820). He had a genuine passion for farming, often writing notes in the margins of agricultural books and experimenting with new farming techniques on the royal estates at Richmond and Windsor.
6. Q: Where did the SAS shoot dead three Provisional IRA members in 1988?
   A: Gibraltar. Known as Operation Flavius, the incident occurred on Winston Churchill Avenue, near the border with Spain, where the trio was suspected of planning a car bomb attack.
7. Q: Where was the peace treaty signed that officially ended World War I?
   A: Versailles, France. The formal signing occurred on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
8. Q: Which shipping company owned and operated the ill-fated “Titanic”?
   A: White Star Line. While it was a British line based in Liverpool, the White Star Line was a subsidiary of the USA-owned International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM), a shipping trust controlled by financier J.P. Morgan.
9. Q: From New York (JFK) to where did the first commercial Boeing 747 fly?
   A: London Heathrow. On January 22, 1970. Known as the “jumbo jet” era’s start, this initial, delayed flight (originally scheduled for Jan 21) carried 332-335 passengers on the “Clipper Victor” (Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)).
10. Q: Which country did the Romans name Hibernia?
    A: Ireland. While the Romans knew of Ireland and traded with it, they never conquered or occupied the island, which remained outside the Roman Empire.