History

Question 1

Henry the Eight Wives

Answer 1

catherine of Aragon - divorced
Anne Boleyn - beheaded
jean Seymour - died
anne of cleaves - divorced
Catherine Howard - beheaded
Catherine Parr - survived

Question 2

in what year did the Berlin Wall fall

Answer 2

1989

Question 3

Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii in what year

Answer 3

79 AD

Question 4

who was the first president of the USA

Answer 4

George Washington

Question 5

how old was Diana when she died

Answer 5

36

Question 6

how long did world war one go on for

Answer 6

4 years
(1914-1918)

Question 7

whose assassination in June 1914 sparked the First World War

Answer 7

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 8

in what year was the Chernobyl disaster

Answer 8

1986

Question 9

in what year was the Euro introduced

Answer 9

1999

Question 10

in what year did the Titanic Sink

Answer 10

1912

Question 11

what is the year and location of the JFK assasssination

Answer 11

1963, Dallas Texas

Question 12

who was Taoiseach on VE day in 1945

Answer 12

Eamonn De Velera

Question 13

what year did the battle of clontarf take place

Answer 13

1014

Question 14

how many years did Nelson Mandela spend in prison

Answer 14

27 years

Question 15

What year was Michael Collins killed

Answer 15

1922

Question 16

which country was the first to give women the right to vote

Answer 16

new zealand

Question 17

what was the name of the treaty signed between the Western Allies and Germany at the end of WW1

Answer 17

Treaty of Versailles

Question 18

What was Mussolini’s first name

Answer 18

Benito

Question 19

2, For how many months was queen Victoria on the throne

Answer 19

763 months

Question 20

what presidents are in mount Rushmore

Answer 20

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt

Question 21

When was the Great Depression

Answer 21

1929 - 1941

Question 22

who assassinated JFK

Answer 22

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 23

who assassinated Abraham Lincoln and where

Answer 23

John Wilkes Booth
in Ford’s theatre in Washington DC

Question 24

who shot the man who shot JFK

Answer 24

jack ruby

Question 25

when did Princess Diana Die

Answer 25

1997

Question 26

How old was US President George Washington when he died

Answer 26

67

Question 27

Who were the first 5 presidents of the USA

Answer 27

George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe