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In 1986, The Federated States of Micronesia gained independence from which country?
United States of America

 

On the 4th November 1956, Soviet troops entered which country in order to quell a rebellion?
Hungary

 

November 2014 saw the official opening of One World Trade Center. What did it replace?
World Trade Center Twin Towers

 

Who found the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Nov 1922?
Howard Carter

 

Born in 1954, Stuart Leslie Goddard is better known as which singer?
Adam Ant

 

In 1973 the Netherlands had a car free Sunday whereby the roads were used by only cyclists roller skaters. Why?
The 1973 Oil Crisis

 

The last large scale armed rebellion against authority in the UK was in November 1839 when 10000 armed Chartists marched upon which town in Monmouthshire?
Newport

 

Salvador Allende became the first Marxist president of any Latin American country through open elections in which country in 1970?
Chile

 

In November 1921, the Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi was assassinated in which city?
Tokyo

 

Who was forced to retreat following defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942?
General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel