Pauls History Quiz 6: multiple choice
4 of the 12 questions have four options to choose from; the others stay as normal questions, because no fair wrong answers could be found for them. Tap an option to see if you are right.
1. Nicknamed 'Connie', what was the most popular commercial airliner in the 1950s?
The Lockheed 'Constellation' or 'Super Constellation'
2. The Dickin Medal, bearing the words 'We also serve' and 'For Gallantry', is awarded to which members of the armed forces in the UK?
Animals
3. Which part of India was occupied by the Japanese in WW II?
The Andaman Islands
4. Which country sent its navy around the world to fight the Japanese in 1904?
5. The 'Tonton Macoute' were the dreaded paramilitary police in which country?
6. Between the years 1992 and 2010, in which country were most journalists killed?
7. The majority of immigrants to the USA between 1820 and 1900 came from which two countries?
Ireland and Germany
8. Which maritime explorer gave the Pacific ocean its name?
Ferdinand Magellan (el mar Pacifico)
9. Which two British aviators were the first to be able to say 'yesterday I was in the Americas, today I'm in Europe'?
Alcock and Brown
10. Which country's flag, the oldest existing flag in the world, apparently fell out of the heavens during a battle on 15th June, 1219?
11. Which three letters replaced CQD?
a. SOS
13. What name was given to the first body of fleet footed professional constables formed in England in the 1750's?
Bow Street Runners (slang name 'red breasts')
ANSWERS
1. The Lockheed 'Constellation' or 'Super Constellation'
2. Animals
3. The Andaman Islands
4. C Russia
5. D Haiti
6. A Iraq
7. Ireland and Germany
8. Ferdinand Magellan (el mar Pacifico)
9. Alcock and Brown
10. D Denmark
11. a. SOS
13. Bow Street Runners (slang name 'red breasts')