SA1 D7 - 10 Questions About History

Question 1

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C1
When was William Shakespeare born?

Answer 1

23 April 1564

Question 2

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C2
On what date did the Battle of Culloden take place?

Answer 2

16 April 1746

Question 3

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C3
Who was Henry VIll’s first wife?

Answer 3

Catherine of Aragon

Question 4

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C4
Which famous battle between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy took place on 21 October 1805?

Answer 4

Battle of Trafalgar

Question 5

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C5
Who became the British prime minister after Winston Churchill in 1955?

Answer 5

Sir Robert Anthony Eden, The 1st Earl of Avon

Question 6

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C6
When did Margaret Thatcher become prime minister of the UK?

Answer 6

1979

Question 7

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C7
When did the Cold War end?

Answer 7

1991. (The Berlin wall came down in 1989, but the Soviet Union did not dissolve until 1991.)

Question 8

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C8
Who was the architect who designed London’s Millennium Dome?

Answer 8

Richard Rogers

Question 9

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C9
When did the Eurostar train service between Britain and France start running?

Answer 9

14 November 1994

Question 10

D7 - Questions About History

SA1 D7 C10
When was the euro introduced as legal currency on the world market?

Answer 10

1 January 1999