November Quiz (Questions only)

1. The Anglo-Saxons called November "Blotmonath". According to the Venerable Bede, what does this name mean, and why was it used?

2. In Polish and Czech, the word "listopad" (literally "falling leaves") means November. In which other Slavic language does the same word mean October?

3. In the NATO phonetic alphabet, November sits between which two code words?

4. Napoleon's coup of 18 Brumaire, Year VIII of the French Republican calendar, took place on which date in the Gregorian calendar?

5. Germans call 9 November "Schicksalstag" (day of fate). Apart from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, what happened in Berlin on 9 November 1918?

6. What name did Hitler and other German nationalists give to the politicians who agreed to the armistice that ended the First World War?

7. The armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed in a railway carriage in which French forest?

8. On 22 November 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, which two famous British authors also died?

9. Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain and Winston Churchill were all born on the feast day of which patron saint?

10. The Russian "October Revolution" of 1917 has traditionally been commemorated on 7 November. Why does its anniversary fall in November?

11. The US presidential Election Day is held on "the Tuesday after the first Monday in November". What are the earliest and latest possible dates it can fall on?

12. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving one week earlier to give retailers a longer Christmas shopping season. What nickname did critics give the new date?

13. The great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 struck on the morning of which Christian feast day, when many people were in church?

14. On 4 November 1922, the first step leading down to whose tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings?

15. Which horse race, run on the first Tuesday of November, is known as "the race that stops a nation", and at which racecourse is it held?

16. Which rapper features on the Gorillaz track "November Has Come", and on which Gorillaz album does it appear?

17. Complete the title of Morrissey's 1990 single: "November Spawned a ..."?

18. Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" first appeared on which album, and which model played the bride in its music video?

19. The 2001 film "Sweet November" starred Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. It remade a 1968 film starring Sandy Dennis and which British singer and actor?

20. Which 19th century English poet wrote a poem in which almost every line is a list of things that are absent ("No sun, no moon..."), and which ends with the single word "November!"?