History 1

Question 1

Since when did England had been without a king

Answer 1

30 Jan 1649

Question 2

When did Oliver Cromwell die

Answer 2

1658

Question 3

When did Charles 2 become King

Answer 3

1660

Question 4

When did the Bubonic Plague hit London?

Answer 4

1665

Question 5

When to When did Samuel Pepys wrote his diary

Answer 5

1660-1669

Question 6

When did the Great Plague decided to die down?

Answer 6

December 1665

Question 7

When did the great fire of London Start?

Answer 7

2 September 1666

Question 8

When was a new city taking shape in London

Answer 8

1676

Question 9

When did the “Fire Office” company insurance came up

Answer 9

1680

Question 10

When was the plot to get rid of King James 2

Answer 10

Summer of 1688

Question 10

When did King Charles 2 died

Answer 10

1685

Question 11

When did William and Mary became joint rulers

Answer 11

1689

Question 12

When did James 2 fled to france

Answer 12

1688

Question 13

When did the Battle of Boyne occur

Answer 13

1690

Question 14

When did Queen Mary die of Smallpox

Answer 14

1694

Question 14

When wass the Act of Union passed

Answer 14

1707

Question 15

When did King William asked all clans to swear an oath of loyalty to him

Answer 15

1692

Question 16

When did King William die

Answer 16

1702

Question 17

When did Queen Anne die

Answer 17

1714

Question 18

When did James Francis landed in Peterhead , Scotland and gathered an army

Answer 18

1715

Question 18

When did King George I became King of Great Britain

Answer 18

1 August 1714

Question 19

When was the Act of Settlement

Answer 19

1701

Question 20

When was the battle of Culloden

Answer 20

April 1746

Question 21

French army surgeon Ambroise Pare used bandages and soothing ointments to treat wounds and prevent infection

Answer 21

1536

Question 22

Flushing toilet invented by Sir John Harington

Answer 22

1596

Question 23

An Intalian,Galileo Galilei made the first practical telescope and saw [planets such as Mars for the first time

Answer 23

1609

Question 24

English doctor William Harvey proved that the heart is a pump and circulates blood around the body

Answer 24

1628

Question 25

British politician and scientist Francis Bacon developed a new way of carrying out sceintific experiments

Answer 25

1620

Question 26

First tea, imported from China was sold in Britain

Answer 26

1657

Question 27

Christopher Wren was appointed Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College,London.Invented an instrutment that wrote in the dark, a weather clock and a new language for the death.

Answer 27

1657

Question 28

Isaac Newton discovered a force of gravity that pulls an object towards the ground

Answer 28

1686

Question 29

Irish-born Robert Boyle proved that air is essential for both breathing and burning

Answer 29

1661

Question 29

The Royal Society was formed,backed by King Charles II.This group of scientists met regulary to discuss their ideas and experiments.Involved Robert Boyle,Samuel Pepys,Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren

Answer 29

1662

Question 30

Philosopher John Locke wrote many books and essays about the human mind

Answer 30

1690

Question 31

World's first daily newspaper

Answer 31

1702

Question 32

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu experimented with smallpox inoculations.

Answer 32

1717

Question 33

George I,Spoke no Enlglish and left Parliament alone to rule the country

Answer 33

1714-1727

Question 34

George II

Answer 34

1727-1760

Question 35

George III, Suffed from periods of mental illness

Answer 35

1760-1820

Question 36

George IV

Answer 36

1820-1830

Question 37

The Flying Shuttle

Answer 37

1733

Question 38

The Spinning Jenny

Answer 38

1764

Question 39

When did Richard Arkwright invented a machine called the 'Spinning Frame'

Answer 39

1769

Question 40

When was Richard Arkwright's frst factory opened at cromford in Derbyshire

Answer 40

1771

Question 41

When did James Watt and Matthew Boulton developed a new kind of steam engine

Answer 41

1768

Question 42

When was Sadler's Report published

Answer 42

1833

Question 43

First Turnpike Trust to be set up

Answer 43

1706

Question 44

1000 turnpike trusts improving over 32000km of roads

Answer 44

1830

Question 45

The first canal which was 11km long was completed in?

Answer 45

1761

Question 46

The first Canal which was built by the Duke of Bridgewater in when?

Answer 46

1759

Question 47

James Watt information

Answer 47

Born in Greenock,Scotland, in 1736 in 1764,Watt repaired an old steam aengine in 1781,Watt designed a new steam engine that could turn a wheel By 1800, Watt and his business partner Matthew Boulton factory in Birmingham was producing some of the world's finest engines.

Question 48

George Stephenson information

Answer 48

Born in Wylam,Northumberland in 1781 In 1814,he designed his first steam locomotive,The Blucher in 1815 he produced a safety lamp for miners which could be used safely in area s where methane gas had collected in 1821, he was given the job of designing the Stockton and Darlington Railway. It opened in 1825 using his locomotives

Question 49

Micheal Faraday information

Answer 49

Born in Newington in 1791 in 1831, He discovered how to generate electricity His generator worked on the same basic principle that electric power stations work on today

Question 50

Ada Lovelace information

Answer 50

Born in 1815 Worked on how the machien could be programmed witha code to calculate numbers

Question 51

Isambard Kingdom Brunelin information

Answer 51

Born in Portsmouth in 1806 In 1829, he designed the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol In 1833, He designed the Great Western Railway

Question 52

Henry Bessemer information

Answer 52

Born near Hitchin,Hertfordshire in 1813 designed a machine for putting perforations on postage stamps and a new method of producing glass Invented a converter a machine for turning iron into steel.

Question 53

Alexander Graham Bell information

Answer 53

Born in Edinburgh,Scotland in 1847 worked all his lofe on making eletrical hearing aids for deaf people, his wife was deaf the idea for a telephone a machine that converts speech into an electrical signal that travels down a wire then turned back into sound, came to him while working on designs to help deaf people He invented the telephone in 1876

Question 54

When was Chadwick's report published

Answer 54

1842

Question 55

When was The Public Health Act passed

Answer 55

1848

Question 56

When was Chadwick's Report published

Answer 56

1842

Question 57

When did The British first got involved in slave trade

Answer 57

1562