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Questions

1) The first transatlantic commercial telephone service was established in 1927 between which two cities?

 

2) In 2015 two gunmen murdered 12 people at the offices of which magazine in Paris?

 

3) Born in 1912, Charles Addams created a popular cartoon series which was also later turned into a number of films. What was the cartoon called?

 

4) In Jan 871, AEthelred I and Alfred the Great led an army of West Saxons against which invaders?

 

5) What was the name of the British writer, conservationist and zookeeper who wrote the very popular ‘My Family and Other Animals’

 

6) In what year, as a consequence of the Second World War, was food rationing introduced to Britain?

 

7) Michael Apted died in Jan 21. He was a film director nominated for numerous awards, but which TV series did make that charted the lives of a number of children born in the 1950’s over the subsequent decades?

 

8) 1973 saw the trial of 7 men accused of breaking in to the Democratic Party Headquarters. What did this become known as?

 

9) Supporters of which former president stormed the Congress building in Brasilia in January 2023?

 

10) Born in January 1824, who became an author best known for ‘The Woman in White’ and what has been proclaimed as the first modern detective novel ‘The Moonstone’?

 

 

 

Answers

1) The first transatlantic commercial telephone service was established in 1927 between which two cities?

New York and London

 

2) In 2015 two gunmen murdered 12 people at the offices of which magazine in Paris?

Charlie Hebdo

 

3) Born in 1912, Charles Addams created a popular cartoon series which was also later turned into a number of films. What was the cartoon called?

The Addams Family

 

4) In Jan 871, AEthelred I and Alfred the Great led an army of West Saxons against which invaders?

Danelaw Vikings

 

5) What was the name of the British writer, conservationist and zookeeper who wrote the very popular ‘My Family and Other Animals’

Gerald Durrell

 

6) In what year, as a consequence of the Second World War, was food rationing introduced to Britain?

1940

 

7) Michael Apted died in Jan 21. He was a film director nominated for numerous awards, but which TV series did make that charted the lives of a number of children born in the 1950’s over the subsequent decades?

‘Up’ (Seven Up, 14 Up etc)

 

8) 1973 saw the trial of 7 men accused of breaking in to the Democratic Party Headquarters. What did this become known as?

Watergate scandal

 

9) Supporters of which former president stormed the Congress building in Brasilia in January 2023?

Jair Bolsonaro

 

10) Born in January 1824, who became an author best known for ‘The Woman in White’ and what has been proclaimed as the first modern detective novel ‘The Moonstone’?

Wilkie Collins