• When did Ruth Rendell die?

  Ans :  02-05-2015 12:00:00 AM

• Where was Arthur Wellesley born?

  Ans :  Dublin

• Which treaty was drawn up by Charles Cornwallis and Joseph Bonaparte?

  Ans :  Amiens

• Which character is spoken in the past tense in Treasure Island?

  Ans :  Captain Flint

• When did John Burdon Sanderson Haldane write publish The Inequality of Man?

  Ans :  1932

• When did Benjamin Disraeli write The Young Duke?

  Ans :  1831

• When did Austen Chamberlain die?

  Ans :  16-03-1937 12:00:00 AM

• Who get Daniel Defoe released?

  Ans :  Robert Harley

• When did James Black die?

  Ans :  22-03-2010 12:00:00 AM

• When did William Makepeace Thackeray die?

  Ans :  24 December 1863

• Which Act made Elizabeth I supreme governor of the Church of England?

  Ans :  Act of Supremacy

• Which of the following wars was fought during Victoria’s reign?

  Ans :  Crimean War

• Which of the following Henry Rider Haggard novels was published in 1910?

  Ans :  Queen Sheba’s Ring

• When did Robert Graves write Good-Bye to All That?

  Ans :  1929

• Who was Anne of Cleves’ mother?

  Ans :  Maria of Julich Berg

• To which party did Richard Burdon Haldane belong in 1924?

  Ans :  Labour

• When did Catherine of Valois die?

  Ans :  3 January 1437

• Where did Edwin Lutyens design military cemeteries?

  Ans :  France

• From which constituency was Robert Cecil elected to Parliament in 1853?

  Ans :  Stamford

• When did John Scott Haldane die?

  Ans :  14/15 March 1936

• From which place close to its headquarters did London’s Metropolitan Police derive the name Scotland Yard?

  Ans :  A small, enclosed field in Whitehall

• When did Robert Hooke discover Hooke’s Law?

  Ans :  1660

• Which King ordered the waves to go back?

  Ans :  Canute

• When was John Burdon Sanderson Haldane born?

  Ans :  5 November 1892

• Which lake did David Livingstone discover on 8 November 1867?

  Ans :  Mweru

• Which university did Louis Leakey attend?

  Ans :  Cambridge

• Which Jackie Collins novel is the longest?

  Ans :  Lovers & Gamblers

• When was National Automated Fingerprint Identification System introduced?

  Ans :  1997

• Who set music to Laurence Binyon’s poem For the Fallen?

  Ans :  Edward Elgar

• Which school did John Harold Plumb attend?

  Ans :  Alderman Newton’s Grammar School

• When was Eleanor of Aquitaine’s marriage to Louis VII annulled?

  Ans :  March 1152

• Who remodelled the high altar of Westminster Abbey in 1867?

  Ans :  George Gilbert Scott

• When was Frances Burney second keeper of the robes?

  Ans :  1786-1791

• When was Elizabeth I queen of England?

  Ans :  1558-1603

• When did James Black get Nobel Prize for Medicine?

  Ans :  1988

• Where did Oliver Sacks die?

  Ans :  New York

• When was Neville Chamberlain Prime Minister of UK?

  Ans :  1937-1940

• When did Robert Browning die?

  Ans :  12 December 1889

• Where was David Lloyd George born?

  Ans :  Manchester

• When did Joseph Rotblat die?

  Ans :  31-08-2005 12:00:00 AM

• When was Henry Edward Manning received in the Roman Catholic Church?

  Ans :  6 April 1851

• When did Winston Churchill paint “Sunset over the Atlas Mountains”?

  Ans :  1935

• What name was assumed by Samuel Coleridge when he joined the army?

  Ans :  Silas Tomkin Comberbache

• Where did Peter O’Toole die?

  Ans :  London

• What was Peter Sellers’ original name?

  Ans :  Richard Henry Sellers

• When was Peter Sellers born?

  Ans :  08-09-1925 12:00:00 AM

• To which political party did Austen Chamberlain belong?

  Ans :  Conservative

• Where did Herbert Ernest Bates die?

  Ans :  Canterbury

• What did Henry Mannox teach Catherine Howard?

  Ans :  Music

• When was Christopher Fry born?

  Ans :  18-12-1907 12:00:00 AM