13th June Quiz Medium
- 20 questions
- about 25 minutes to run
- published 7 Jan 2025
- updated
1. On 13 June 1886, King Ludwig II of Bavaria was found dead in a lake near his castle at Berg, in mysterious circumstances. Name the lake.
2. On 13 June 1944, the first German V-1 flying bomb to hit London fell in the East End. What nickname did Londoners give to these weapons?
3. On 13 June 1381, rebels in the Peasants' Revolt entered London and burned down the Savoy Palace. Which powerful royal duke owned it?
4. On 13 June 1525, Martin Luther married a former nun. What was her name?
5. 13 June is the feast day of St Anthony of Padua, patron saint of lost things. In which European capital city was he actually born?
6. On 13 June 1966, the US Supreme Court ruled that suspects must be told of their right to silence and to a lawyer before questioning. What surname, from the case, is given to these warnings?
7. On 13 June 1971, an American newspaper began publishing the "Pentagon Papers", a secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. Name the newspaper and the former military analyst who leaked the papers.
8. On 13 June 1990, the official demolition of the Berlin Wall began. Which Berlin street, where buildings had once formed part of the border, saw the start of the work?
9. On 13 June 1956, Real Madrid won the first European Cup final 4-3. Which French club did they beat, and in which city was the final played?
10. On 13 June 2000, a South Korean president flew to Pyongyang for the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. He won the Nobel Peace Prize that year. Who was he?
11. On 13 June 1983, NASA's Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to pass beyond the orbits of all the planets known at the time. Whose orbit did it cross that day?
12. A Scottish physicist born in Edinburgh on 13 June 1831 produced a set of equations showing that light is an electromagnetic wave. Who was he?
13. An Irish poet born in Dublin on 13 June 1865 won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 and wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". Who was he?
14. An English crime writer born in Oxford on 13 June 1893 created an aristocratic amateur detective whose manservant is called Bunter. Name the writer and the detective.
15. An actor born in Johannesburg on 13 June 1892 played which famous fictional character in 14 films between 1939 and 1946?
16. An English polymath born on 13 June 1773 devised the double-slit experiment showing that light behaves as a wave, and made early progress in deciphering the Rosetta Stone. Who was he?
17. Twin sisters born on 13 June 1986 shared the role of Michelle Tanner in which American sitcom?
18. An American actor born on 13 June 1981, who shares his name with a British radio and TV presenter, played which Marvel superhero in the Avengers films?
19. A Swedish actor born on 13 June 1951, father of the actors Alexander and Bill, played Bootstrap Bill Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films. Who is he?
20. An English actor born in Leeds on 13 June 1943 played Alex DeLarge in which 1971 Stanley Kubrick film?
ANSWERS
1. Lake Starnberg (Starnberger See)
Ludwig, who built Neuschwanstein, had been declared insane and deposed days earlier. He was found dead in shallow water with his psychiatrist, Bernhard von Gudden. Whether it was suicide, accident or murder is still debated.
2. Doodlebugs also accept buzz bombs
3. John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster)
4. Katharina von Bora
5. Lisbon
He is known as St Anthony of Padua because he spent his last years and died there, in 1231. The Portuguese call him St Anthony of Lisbon.
6. Miranda (Miranda v Arizona; "Miranda rights" or "Miranda warning")
7. The New York Times; Daniel Ellsberg
8. Bernauer Straße
Bernauer Straße is now home to the Berlin Wall Memorial. Unofficial chipping away by "Mauerspechte" (wall-peckers) had begun in November 1989.
9. Stade de Reims; Paris (at the Parc des Princes)
10. Kim Dae-jung
11. Neptune
Pluto was then classed as a planet, but from 1979 to 1999 its eccentric orbit took it inside Neptune's, so Neptune was briefly the most distant planet. That is why crossing Neptune's orbit counted as leaving the planets behind.
12. James Clerk Maxwell
13. W.B. Yeats
14. Dorothy L. Sayers; Lord Peter Wimsey
15. Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone)
16. Thomas Young
17. Full House (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen)
18. Captain America (Chris Evans)
19. Stellan Skarsgård
20. A Clockwork Orange (Malcolm McDowell)
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