19th September Quiz Easy
- 20 questions
- about 25 minutes to run
- published 8 Sep 2023
- updated
1. At the Battle of Poitiers on 19 September 1356, Edward the Black Prince captured a French king. Which one?
2. On 19 September 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to give women the vote in national elections. Which suffragist leader now appears on the country's $10 note?
3. On 19 September 1991, German hikers found a 5,000-year-old mummified man in the Ötztal Alps. On the border of which two countries was he found, and in which city's museum is he now displayed?
4. On 19 September 1783, the Montgolfier brothers sent up a hot-air balloon at Versailles, watched by Louis XVI. Which three animals were its passengers?
5. US President James Garfield died on 19 September 1881, weeks after being shot. Which famous inventor tried to find the bullet in his body with an electrical device?
6. On 19 September 1982, Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University suggested using a sequence of three keyboard characters to mark jokes online. What were they?
7. A huge earthquake struck Mexico City on 19 September 1985. Which major international sporting event did Mexico still go on to host the following year?
8. The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II took place on 19 September 2022. In which chapel was she buried?
9. On 19 September 1981, an estimated half a million people watched a reunited duo give a free concert in Central Park, New York. Which duo?
10. The first festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, which grew into Glastonbury, was held on 19 September 1970. Who was the farmer who founded it, and what did the £1 ticket famously include free?
11. On 19 September 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for kidnapping and murdering the baby son of which famous aviator?
12. On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill made a speech at Zurich University calling for "a kind of United States of..." what?
13. 19 September is, unofficially, International Talk Like a... what Day?
14. A novelist born on 19 September 1911 wrote "Lord of the Flies". Who was he, and which character in the novel is killed by a boulder?
15. An English actor born on 19 September 1948 won the Best Actor Oscar for playing Claus von Bülow. Name the actor and the film.
16. A model born in London on 19 September 1949 became the face of the Swinging Sixties. What was her nickname, and what is her real name?
17. A Sheffield-born singer born on 19 September 1963 invaded the stage at the 1996 Brit Awards during a performance by which star?
18. A music manager born in Liverpool on 19 September 1934 discovered the Beatles while running his family's record shop. Name him, and say what the shop's initials NEMS stood for.
19. An Italian writer who died on 19 September 1985 wrote "If on a Winter's Night a Traveller" and "Invisible Cities". He was born in which Caribbean country?
20. On 19 September 1676, during a colonial uprising in Virginia, rebels burned the colony's capital. Name the town, the first permanent English settlement in America.
ANSWERS
1. John II (John the Good)
2. Kate Sheppard
3. Austria and Italy; Bolzano
The mummy, known as Ötzi or the Iceman, was found by Erika and Helmut Simon from Nuremberg. He was found just inside Italy, though this was only confirmed after a survey of the border. He had been killed by an arrow.
4. A sheep, a duck and a cockerel (rooster)
5. Alexander Graham Bell
Bell's metal detector failed, probably because Garfield was lying on a bed with metal springs. Many historians think his doctors' unsterile probing caused the infection that killed him.
6. :-) (a colon, a hyphen and a closing bracket)
Fahlman also suggested :-( to mark posts that were not jokes.
7. The 1986 FIFA World Cup
8. St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (in the King George VI Memorial Chapel)
9. Simon and Garfunkel
10. Michael Eavis; free milk from the farm
The festival was held the day after Jimi Hendrix died. Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex headlined, replacing the Kinks.
11. Charles Lindbergh
12. Europe
13. Pirate
14. William Golding; Piggy
15. Jeremy Irons; Reversal of Fortune
16. Twiggy; Lesley Hornby (now Lesley Lawson)
17. Michael Jackson (Jarvis Cocker)
18. Brian Epstein; North End Music Stores
19. Cuba (Italo Calvino)
20. Jamestown (during Bacon's Rebellion)
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