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Our latest round testing you on events that happened in the month of January. Check out our other rounds to find out what took place in your birth month

 

Questions

1) Which television and radio presenter who died in 2012 was not, contrary to popular belief, the saxophone player on ‘Baker Street’

 

2) Brian Hugh Warner, born in January 1969, is an American singer songwriter known for his controversial stage act who along with his band, play under his stage name that combines a sex symbol with an infamous criminal. What is his name?

 

3) In January 1540 Henry VIII married Anne of Cleaves. How many wives had he married before her?

 

4) In 1847 Samual Colt obtained his first contract to sell what to the USA government?

 

5) Who travelled by sea, to Calcutta in 1929, to begin her work helping with the sick and poor of India?

 

6) In 1994 which American figure skater was attacked by someone hired by the husband of her rival Tonya Harding?

 

7) Which French martyr and saint was born in 1412 and remains one of France’s greatest heroines?

 

8) The first observations of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Io, Callista, and Europa were made in 1610 by which astronomer?

 

9) By what method did Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais in 1785?

 

10) Charles Darwin arrived at the Chonos Archipelago in 1835 aboard which ship?

 

 

 

Answers

1) Which television and radio presenter who died in 2012 was not, contrary to popular belief, the saxophone player on ‘Baker Street’

Bob Holness

 

2) Brian Hugh Warner, born in January 1969, is an American singer songwriter known for his controversial stage act who along with his band, play under his stage name that combines a sex symbol with an infamous criminal. What is his name?

Marilyn Manson

 

3) In January 1540 Henry VIII married Anne of Cleaves. How many wives had he married before her?

3

 

4) In 1847 Samual Colt obtained his first contract to sell what to the USA government?

Revolver pistols

 

5) Who travelled by sea, to Calcutta in 1929, to begin her work helping with the sick and poor of India?

Mother Teresa

 

6) In 1994 which American figure skater was attacked by someone hired by the husband of her rival Tonya Harding?

Nancy Kerrigan

 

7) Which French martyr and saint was born in 1412 and remains one of France’s greatest heroines?

Joan of Arc

 

8) The first observations of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, Io, Callista, and Europa were made in 1610 by which astronomer?

Galileo Galilei

 

9) By what method did Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries travel from Dover to Calais in 1785?

Gas filled balloon

 

10) Charles Darwin arrived at the Chonos Archipelago in 1835 aboard which ship?

HMS Beagle