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1) In March 1983 Bob Hawke was appointed as prime minister of which country?

 

2) Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female president of which South American country?

 

3) In 2011 an earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami which killed thousands of people and also caused the second worst nuclear accident when which power plant was affected?

 

4) Born in 1916 in Huddersfield, which politician went on to be Prime Minister of two Labour governments and represented Ormskirk and later Huyton as an MP?

 

5) Who was the British author, whose best known work is ‘The Day of the Triffids’ who died in March 1969

 

6) In March 1930, who began his ‘Salt March’, a 200 mile march to the sea in protest at the British monopoly over salt in India?

 

7) In March 1989, who submitted his proposals for an information management system that subsequently developed into the World Wide Web?

 

8) William Herschel, in March1781, discovered which planet, the seventh from the sun?

 

9) In 1988 the Seikan Tunnel, which is the longest tunnel in the world that has an undersea element, opened in which country?

 

10) Which Scottish town was the location for the deadliest mass shooting in British history when in March 1996 16 pupils and a teacher were killed?

 

 

 

Answers

1) In March 1983 Bob Hawke was appointed as prime minister of which country?

Australia

 

2) Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as the first female president of which South American country?

Chile

 

3) In 2011 an earthquake in Japan triggered a tsunami which killed thousands of people and also caused the second worst nuclear accident when which power plant was affected?

Fukushima

 

4) Born in 1916 in Huddersfield, which politician went on to be Prime Minister of two Labour governments and represented Ormskirk and later Huyton as an MP?

Harold Wilson

 

5) Who was the British author, whose best known work is ‘The Day of the Triffids’ who died in March 1969

John Wyndham

 

6) In March 1930, who began his ‘Salt March’, a 200 mile march to the sea in protest at the British monopoly over salt in India?

Mahatma Gandhi

 

7) In March 1989, who submitted his proposals for an information management system that subsequently developed into the World Wide Web?

Tim Berners-Lee

 

8) William Herschel, in March1781, discovered which planet, the seventh from the sun?

Uranus

 

9) In 1988 the Seikan Tunnel, which is the longest tunnel in the world that has an undersea element, opened in which country?

Japan

 

10) Which Scottish town was the location for the deadliest mass shooting in British history when in March 1996 16 pupils and a teacher were killed?

Dunblane