1. In which city was the Titanic built?
Belfast
2. What did Adlai Stevenson describe as “a person who approaches every subject with an open mouth”?
A politician
3. The movie “The Eagle” is about soldiers from which empire?
Roman
4. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated – but who was the second?
James Garfield
5. What was unusual about the consul Incitatus, elected between 37 and 41AD?
He was a horse
6. What are Mikado in Japan, Nawab in South Asia and Sagamore in native America?
Rulers
7. Which historical event in 1937 was the first time the BBC used an outside filming unit?
Coronation of George VI
8. Which Scottish band shares its name with the politician whose assassination provoked some of the actions of the First World War?
Franz Ferdinand
9. Today is Prince Charles’s birthday, but how old is he turning? (2 either way)
63 (so 61-65)
10. On which island was Napoleon born?
Corsica
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