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All questions relate to events that happened in the month of May

 

Queen Victoria opened 'The Great Exhibition' at Crystal palace in what year? a) 1851 b) 1861 c) 1871
a) 1851

 

Who won the Pulitzer prize for Drama in May 1955 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Tennessee Williams

 

Which potter famous for his 'jasperware' opened his first pottery business in Burslm in 1759
Josiah Wedgewood

 

English boxer who died in 2011, famous for his 'hammer' and as of 2017 the only British boxer to be awarded a knighthood.
Henry Cooper

 

In 1536 which English Queen was arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
Anne Boleyn

 

In May 1952 the worlds first jet airliner made its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg. What model was it?
de Havilland Comet 

 

Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist was born as Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías in 1945, who is she better known as?
Bianca Jagger

 

Which cricketer, born in May 1969, is the only batsman to have ever scored a century, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games?
Brian Lara

 

Which novel by Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in May 1937?
Gone With the Wind

 

The Anne Frank House museum opened in 1960 in which city?
Amsterdam