1. What famously sank on May 27th 1941?

2. Which president called 7 December 1941 "a date which will live in infamy"?

3. Which charter did Churchill & Roosevelt sign on HMS Prince of Wales in 1941?

4. What do the films Jaws, ET The Extra Terrestrial and 1941 have in common?

5. What was the name of the Serbian secret society who were pledged to the liberation of Serbs from Hapsburg & Ottoman rule, who on June 28, 1941 assassinated the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, which led to the outbreak of WWI?

6. 1941 - The Thief of?

7. In which four Alfred Hitchcock films did Cary Grant play the leading man?

8. Which British territory was captured on Christmas Day 1941?

9. Who played the part of Sam Spade in the 1941 film "The Maltese Falcon"?

10. Operation Barbarossa was the codename used by the Germans for their plans to invade which country in 1941?

11. In what year did the attack on Pearl Harbour take place?

12. Who played the male lead in the 1941 comedy film Ball Of Fire?

13. Lester William Polsfuss designed and built what in 1941?

14. "In the event of something happening to me" are the first words to which hit song from the Bee Gees?

15. Which famous ship sank, or rather, disappeared in the Denmark Strait on the 24th of May 1941?

16. Which European country remained neutral throughout the second world war despite the Germans bombing its capital city in May 1941 by accident?

17. The Commercial distribution of which meat was banned by law in Germany in 1986?

18. Did Douglas Bader lose both his legs before or after shooting down 22 planes in 1941?

19. Who began her show with the words ?I was born in the Bronx in New York, in December 1941??

20. In which century was the last execution at the Tower of London?

ANSWERS

1. The Bismark.

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. The Atlantic Charter.

4. Steven Spielberg

5. Black Hand

6. The Thief of Baghdad

7. Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959)

8. Hong Kong

9. Humphrey Bogart

10. Russia

11. 1941

12. Gary Cooper

13. The Les Paul electric guitar.

14. New York Mining Disaster 1941

15. H.M.S. Hood

16. Ireland

17. Dog meat - which had been allowed by law since 1941

18. Before (Flying accident 1931)

19. Rhoda

20. 20th (1941)