History

1. Which President of the USSR encouraged the policy of Glassnost?

2. Name the commoner who ruled England in 1658-59.
3. In which American city was the world's first skyscraper built in 1885?
4. Name the only boxer to knock out Mohammed Ali
5. Name the South African surgeon who carried out the first heart transplant operation.
6. The revolutionary newspaper, Pravda was first published in 1912...but WHERE?
7. What was the American codename for the development of the atom bomb?
8. Which airline owned the jet that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988?
9. Which book catapulted Germaine Greer to fame?
10. What was the given name of Stalin's daughter who defected to the US in 1967?

ANSWERS
1. Mr Gorbachov
2. Richard Cromwell
3. Chicago
4. Larry Holmes in 1980
5. Dr Christian Barnard
6. Russia
7. Manhatton Project
8. Pan Am
9. The Female Eunuch
10. Svetlana

Political history

1. Who was in office as President of the United States when the decision was taken to
declare war on Germany during World War I?
2. Who was the architect of the British National Health Service?
3. Who was hailed as the founder of the Mongol Empire?
4. Which Canadian newspaper magnate held important Government Offices in England
during World War I and World War 11?
5. Josip Broz led the Communist partisans to victory against foreign occupation forces in
Yugoslavia during the Second World War. By what name was he later better known?
6. Which British statesman led his party to victory in the 1959 elections on the slogan 'You
have never had it so good'?
7. Who, at the age of forty-three, became the world?s first female President and the
youngest Head of State :in Latin America in the seventies?
8. Who was a Minister of Labour 1929-31 and the first woman to enter the Cabinet and be a
member of the Privy Council?
9. Who was the 18th century Irish politician who was called the Liberator?
10. Which former American President left behind an immortal souvenir -the teddy -which was
named after him?
11. Which two men were awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1993?
12. She was the leader of the British movement for female suffrage. In 1903 she founded
the Women's Political Union which agitated for votes for women, but died in 1928 just before
full voting rights were granted. Who was she?
13. He was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until his dethronement in 1974, with the exception
of 1936-41 (the Italian occupation). He was a founder of the Organisation of African Unity.
Who was he?
14. Who was the President of the NUM at the time of the strikes in the 1980s?
15. He was born in Poland and emigrated to Palestine in 1906. He became the first Prime
Minister of the State of Israel. Who was he?
16. Who was known as the Iron Chancellor?
17. A Norwegian politician became a puppet leader of his country during World War II and
his name became a byword for treachery .Who was he?
18. What were the early occupations of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini?

19. He was the son of a Siberian peasant and became the most influential person at the
court of Tsar Nicholas II. He was widely thought to have magical powers and was
assassinated in 1916. What was his name?
20. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain when Edward VIII abdicated the throne in
1936?

ANSWERS
1. Woodrow Wilson
2. Aneurin Bevin
3. Genghis Khan
4. Lord Beaverbrook
5. President Tito
6. Harold Macmillan
7. Isabel Peron
8. Margaret Grace Bondfield
9. Daniel O'Connell
10. Theodore Roosevelt
11. Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk
12. Emmeline Pankhurst
13. Haile Selassie
14. Arthur Scargill
15. David Ben Gurion
16. Bismarck
17. Vidkun Quisling
18. Teacher and Journalist
19. Rasputin
20. Stanley Baldwin