1. Which leader of the Russian revolution became first Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs but was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 and was assassinated in Mexico in 1940?

2. Which .number one pin-up girl of World War II starred In the 1940s films Tin Pan Alley, Moon Over Miami and Springtime In The Rockies?

3. What is name of the French port where over 300 000 Allied soldiers were evacuated from in May/June 1940?

4. Which city was the scheduled venue for the cancelled 1940 Olympic Games?

5. Which dancer/actress Ginger won an Oscar in 1940?

6. From which French town were more than 330,000 Allied Troops evacuated in 1940?

7. In which decade did the Berlin airlift begin?

8. In which Scottish town was marriage by declaration abolished in 1940?

9. The Manhattan Project in the early 1940s was developing what?

10. In which three years were the Summer Olympic Games cancelled?

11. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed in a railway dining carriage. What happened with that same carriage in June 1940?

12. Who were ?The Few? praised by Winston Churchill in 1940?

13. Name the two principal characters made their debuts in the 1940 film ?Puss gets the Boot??

14. One of the most beautiful women in the world in the 1940s and 50s was Hollywood actress Ava Gardner. She was married three times. Two of her husbands were Academy Award winners. Can you name them?

15. Which Bobby's were mad about Frank Sinatra in the 1940s?

16. In which country was Lev Bronstien assassinated in July 1940?

17. Jimminy Cricket is a character in which 1940 film?

18. Which 1940s radio show and 1950s television show featured Julian Huxley in intellectual discussion?

19. Which scientist was born in Germany in 1879, became a Swiss citizen in 1901 and later became a US citizen in 1940?

20. What kind of bank was opened in 1940 for the first time in the USA by the African American surgeon Charles Drew?

ANSWERS

1. Leon Trotsky

2. Betty Grable

3. Dun Kirk

4. Tokyo

5. Rogers

6. Dunkirk

7. 1940s (1948)

8. Gretna Green

9. The Atomic Bomb

10. 1916, 1940 and 1944

11. In June 1940 Hitler made France sign its surrender in the same carriage, at the same spot in the Forest of Compiègne.

12. British Pilots of the Battle of Britain

13. Tom & Jerry

14. Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra

15. Bobby soxers

16. Mexico (Trotsky)

17. Pinocchio

18. Brain's trust

19. Albert Einstein.

20. Blood bank