57 history questions for your home pub quiz

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1. Anne of Cleves
2. Yasuke is known as the first foreign-born samurai in 16th-century Japan
3. Geoffrey of Monmouth
4. Harriet Tubman served in the America Civil War
5. It was the site of a failed attempt by a group of Cuban émigrés, with the backing of the US government, to invade the island in 1961.
6. Eleanor of Aquitaine
7. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in April 1961
8. The body of Oliver Cromwell was exhumed in 1661.
9. Edward the Elder, son of Alfred and Ealhswith of Mercia
10. Edward Teach is better known to history as the notorious 17th-century pirate ‘Blackbeard’
11. The Ides of March
12. In Thomas Farriner’s bakery on Pudding Lane (though technically the bakehouse was not located on Pudding Lane proper, but on Fish Yard, a small enclave off Pudding Lane) | Learn more with this guide to the Great Fire of London
13. The Waltz
14. King William IV (who was Victoria’s uncle)
15. Bristol | Read more about the Bristol bus boycott
16. Aaron Burr, the sitting vice president of the USA | Read more about the Hamilton-Burr duel
17. The drunkard’s cloak was a form of humiliating punishment used in the past for people who were perceived to have abused alcohol
18. Cuneiform, an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC
19. Agrippina the Younger
20. Sarah Breedlove – who later became known as Madam CJ Walker
21. Collecting fossils, she was a palaeontologist
22. Edmund Spenser, in his epic poem ‘The Faerie Queene’
23. Countess Markievicz
24. Corsica
25. Utah; Omaha; Gold; Juno and Sword
26. Roanoke (and read more about its disappearance)
27. The Peterloo Massacre
28. The Foo Fighters
29. 1913
30. A battle formation that consisted of soldiers with long spears placed into circular, tightly packed formations
31. Edward the Confessor
32. Michael Collins
33. He was a witch-finder
34. The Peasants' Revolt took place in 1381, in the 14th century
35. Malcolm X
36. Catherine of Aragon
37. The drilling of holes in the head and scraping or cutting of the skull
38. 1840s
39. Robert the Bruce
40. Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
41. Philip II of Spain
42. Edward I
43. Chester A Arthur
44. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
45. The west
46. Saladin
47. Caractacus
48. Herbert Hoover
49. The Palace of Versailles
50. Oxford
51. Gavrilo Princip
52. Richard III. He was defeated at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 by the army of Henry Tudor
53. The Ku Klux Klan
54. Roosevelt
55. Nicholas II
56. The Lincoln Memorial
57. George III

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