Quiz on international history and recent politics

1 Which mid 20th Century Prime minister of Britain had a surname which included the first part of the name of a Iron Age defensive fortification beginning with the letter H.

2 Which Cuban 20th century Revolutionary leader, who served over 50 years as leader has the same surname as the name for the Spanish version of those structures. 

3 Which British PM preceded and succeeded Edward Heath as PM,  

4 Name a Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany whose surname began with B, 

5 What year were the devolution referendums in Wales and Scotland, that voted in both cases for the plans.  

6 Julius Nyerere was leader of which 20th Century African country, in 1965

7 What year did Nepal become a republic 

8 What year did West and East Germany merge

9 Where was the political movement Solidarity important in Eastern Europe in the 1980s

10 Alberto Fujimori was President of which South American country, 

11 What year did Brasilia get founded

12 Bohemia and Moravia are part of which part of the old Czechoslovakia, I mean after it split 2. 

13 Michael Manley was leader of which Caribbean country 

14 Pierre Trudeau became PM of Canada for the first time in which decade,

15 How many years was Helmut Kohl leader of the Federal Republic of Germany 

16 What year did Newt Gingrich become speaker of the US House of Representatives 

17 What year did Nancy Pelosi first become Speaker 

18 What year was Jacques Chirac re-elected President of France

19 How many years did Robert Menzies serve as PM of Australia

20 What year did Nehru the leader of India die

21 What year did Richard Nixon visit China, first, as President, with much publicity, , 

22 What year did China pass a population of 1 billion as the first country ever to do so, 

23 Which Soviet leader instigated Perestroika and Glasnost

24 What year did the Arab League found,

25 Bettino Craxi was PM of which European country 

26 Gomulka led which Eastern Block country in the Post War era. 

27 Carlos Menem was elected President of Argentina, for the first time, in which decade, 

28 What year was Nelson Mandela  first elected South Africa's president,  

29 What year did Jamaica become independent 

30 What year did the world pass 7,500,000,010   people in population alive for the first time. (Including those on the International Space station) 

31 Xiomara Castro was elected the first female president in 2021 for 2022, of which country.

32 Who finished runner yp to Bill Clinton, in the 1996 USA Presidential election,

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1 Winston Churchill Hillforts

2 Fidel Castro 

3 Harold Wilson

4 Willy Brandt

5 1997

6 Tanzania

7 2008

8 1989

9 Poland

10 Peru

11 1960

12 The Czech Republic, 

13 Jamaica

14 1960s, 

15 16 years 

16 1995 

17 2007 

18 2002 

19 18 years

20 1964 

21 1972

22 1982

23 Gorbachev, it is not spelt Gorbachov, or Gorbachav, 

241945

25 Italy

26 Poland

27 1980s 

28 1994

29 1962

30 2017

31 Honduras

32 Bob Dole

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Quiz on Neanderthals

1 What geographical location were the Neanderthals named after, 

2 What geographic location were the Denisovans named after, 

3 What island were the evidence of the 3 to 4 foot tall Hominids of over 20,000 years ago found. In the early 21st Century.

4 By what first name was the Australopithecus afarensis from 3.4 million years or so ago, in East Africa, labelled as, when found in 1974. 

5 What huge animals were the Neanderthals supposed to have caught, that there is evidence of them eating of, at  La Cotte de St Brelade, Wooly Rhinos, not wooly rhinos, and, 

6 What is the name of the tear drop shaped Acheulian tool, used by Homo Erectus, 

7 Which of these had the largest cranium capacity, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, Neanderthal, Australopithecus afarensis

8 Where would you find a occipital bun, that is a common feature in Neanderthals, but less so in modern homo sapiens sapiens, though I can testify some of us moderns have them as well,  

9 Who were stronger Neanderthals or modern humans

10 Do some of us moderns have some Neanderthal genes 

11 What cave in Denbighshire beginning with B, or P, has Neanderthal or such like remains found there, 

12 What artefact of ancient humans is Clacton by Sea famous for 

13 Oldbury Hillfort, is a rare hillfort site that also has evidence of Neanderthals having been there, tens of thousands of years before, what county is it in, 

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1 The Neander Valley

2 Denisovan Cave

3 Flores Island

4 Lucy

5 Mammoths, 

6 Hand-Axes

7 Neanderthal

8 The back of the skull, 

9 Neanderthals, 

10 Yes,

11 Bontnewydd,(Picture of the cave below here, it is my picture, so you need my permission to use it,)

12 A spear 

13 Kent, 

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Quiz on Castles

1 Which major castle did Robert De Bruce take back in 1313, 

2 Which castle in Czechia is claimed to be the largest in the world, 

3 Which castles in Poland is also claimed to be the largest,

4 Which Prince took Harlech castle for Wales in the 1400s, 

5 Which Yorkshire castle was handed over to the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace by Thomas Darcy in 1536, 

6 When did the Mamluks take Krak des Chevaliers, 1109, 1150, 1250, 1271, or 1310, 

7 When was Osaka Castle first built, what century, the 10th, the 16th, or the 19th, 

8 Would you find the Rock of Dunamase, in Ulster, Leinster, Connaught, or Munster, 

9 Where would you find Arundel Castle, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Lancashire or Cornwall, 

10 Where would you find Leeds Castle, Yorkshire or Kent, 

11 Which of these is if any is not a Chateux in the Loire Valley, Chambord, Chinon, Langeais, Loches,

12 What famous figure now associated to Cider, founded Chepstow castle,

13 What county would you find Beeston Castle in, 

14  What is the name of the native Welsh castle that was  built by Llewellyn Ap Iorweth, Llewellyn the Great, and is in the shadow of Moel Siabod, 

15 What town beginning with C is the nearest town to Glyndwr's castle, in North Wales. 

16 Which castle  was the direct successor in the area, to Deganwy successor, as it was easier to supply from the sea for the English crown. 

17 What was most of Newport Castle in South Wales, destroyed for, 

18 Which site, on the River Clwyd, was held  it seems by Gruffyd Ap Llewellyn in 1063, but was the site of a new stone castle, held  by the English crown from the 1270s. 

19 Which castle above Llangollen, was also the site of Iron Age hillfort. 

20 Which castle did the King of Powys Madog Ap Maredudd, descendant of the 11th Century  Bleddyn Ap Cynfyn, and ancestor of Owain Glyndwr die in in 1160, after rebuilding Oswestry Castle, it is near it and in Shropshire. 

21 John Henry Anderson was known as the Wizard of the North, one of the early highlights or steps of his career was performing at the castle  of Lord Panmure. His moniker was givem by the Great Sir Walter Scott. What in term sof a it seems purely entertainment sense did he dabble in, that made him recieve this moniker.

22 The Rocca Di Solferino, was involved in which battle that encouraged the formation of the Red Cross, the battle was in 1859.

23 France and Italian forces defeated the forces  of which empire, in this battle,

24 What country in 2021 is where the battle was.
 

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1 Edinburgh
2 Prague 
3 Malbork
4 Owain Glyndwr, 
5 Pontefract Castle, it is not spelt Pilgramage of Grace, 
6 1271
7 16th Century 
8 Leinster, 
9 Sussex
10 Kent, 
11 They all are such castles in the valley, not spelt Chateux

12 Strongbow,

13 Cheshire,

14 Dolwydellan Castle,

15 Corwen,

15 Conwy Castle,

17A railway  

18 Rhuddlan Castle,

19 Llangollen's Dinas Bran,

20 Whittington Castle.

21 Magic, he was a magician,

22 The Battle of Solferino,  some say and San Martino,

23 Austria

24 Italy

Historical coincidences quiz

1 Both Abe and JFK were elected to congress first in in '46: is this true or false, 
2 Both were elected in 60, 

3 Both had their wives present with them on their fateful last moments, 

4 Both were succeeded by Southerners called Johnson, and assassinated by Southern born individuals who had converted to the side that the President was in either a war, or cold war situation with, 

5 Both had the same amount of letters in their surname, and were assassinated by individuals are known by their three names. Plus both assassins were shot and killed before any trial could take place regarding them, and both had managed to get away from the assassination at first, without arrest. 

6 Abe's assassin ran (I will not name the assassins) from the theatre and was caught in a barn so a kind of warehouse, and JFK's assassin ran from a book depository a kind of warehouse and was caught in a movie theatre: (the wording here is contrived) 

7 Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theatre, and JFK in a Ford Lincoln

8 Kennedy had a secretary called Lincoln, 

9 They were born in the same decade 100 years apart, had wives the same name, and were assassinated 100 years apart and both served 2 terms, 

10 Lenin was interred in a mausoleum in 1924, and preserved, but  whose tomb's burial chamber, containing the preserved Egyptian Pharaoh  was uncovered by Howard Carter just under 1 year earlier. 

11 Which island in legend west of Ireland, was also completely unconnected a name given to a large country in the Americas. 

12 What incredible leap in human food production starting the Neolithic, was developed across the world independently in at least 3 different places, 

13 Which comet appeared over England in 1066, seeming like a omen.  

14 The weather though of course more so English and likely Japanese forces themselves, helped defeat or wreck the Spanish Armada in 1588, and earlier a Mongol attack on Japan, true or false, And also helped to a extent Scottish forces in beating back a Norwegian invasion of the Ayrshire coast and the west of Scotland in the 1260s. Again also Scottish forces were very important in this defence as well. Not just the weather. 

15 In the iron Age, Britain had hillforts, warriors painted in war paints (woad), or tattoos, we are as a society unsure, and they defended themselves against the mighty world power, that was Roman Empire. In stories, led by people such as Caradoc. Which island group, completely dominated by it's 2 main islands,  in the Southern Hemisphere, (actually larger in total land area when combined, than Great Britain, but not Britain and Ireland, combined, had hillforts, had warriors covered in tattoos, and defended themselves against the mighty British Empire. It seems led by people such as Rawiri Puhirake.

16 What year was Futility, later titled The Wreck of the Titan, by Morgan Robertson, written, Remembered as of it's premonition like story similar to the later disastrous sinking of the Titanic, in 1912. 

17 What year, and I know independence came a few years earlier, did the USA ratify it's constitution, delineating a national framework of a government of the former colonies, of Britain, so underlining it's separation from Britain and it's empire. While the same year Australia saw Britain's colonial scheme, land at Botany Bay, when the first fleet of 11 ships arrived with about 1500 people starting the colonial moves big time.

18 Which early 20th century psychiatrist, not Freud, and early 20th century Irish Poet, both of whose names phonetically began with Y, only 1 actually does, believed there was some sort of collective unconscious, on one hand, and a great mind, on the other, almost similar things. OK they are quite different theories, but do have some similarities on a simplistic strange way. I mean one seems to be more a inherited hive memory, the other more a hive mind of that point in time precisely, going on concurrently which is quite different but quite the same in some expressions of occurrence. And had feelings of a major event on doom on the horizon, which was World War Two.  

19 John Major and John Smith, and Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, each share what UK leaders of the 2 main parties fact about themselves and their names.

20 Which 2 comedians did, I think it was plastering or some thing or painting, for Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, before all 4, became major British comedy icons.

21 What do James Callaghan ( Sunny Jim ) and Jimmy Carter, share about their names, that no other post 1900, UK PM, and USA president share. Upto 2021 anyhow.

22 This is my easy peasy trick question, as a bit of fun, what is the name connection between Tony Blair and Anthony Eden, in terms of post world war Two, British PMs names,

23 What do Aberdeen Manager Alex Smith, and Rangers manager Walter Smith have in common in terms of their name, not just that they have the same surname, that no permanent 1979-2021 Dons and Rangers managers share, 

24 What do David Cameron and David Davies, then John Major and John Redwood, and Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, and Tony Benn and Anthony Crossland share that I can not see 2 other candidate for the leaders of Labour or the Tories, in the 1945 - 2021 leadership elections share,

25, In 1982 Italy won the world cup, Argentina won it in 1978 and 1986. Then all the way onwards to 2002, so in terms of the mirroring, back to 1962, there was a mirroring of who won the football world cup,,  except with one exception, what year in terms of after 1982 to 2002, what was that.

26 Back to the future 1 and 2 have 3 important years, 1955, 1985, and 2015. What occurred in 1955, 1985, and just failed to occur in 2015, by 1 position, that up to 2021 has been rare to Aberdeen FC's history, 

27 Glasgow is famous for it's banter filled footballing rivalry between the greens and the blues, Celtic and Rangers. Which  city in the 6th Century also had a rivalry in sport, itself between the actually called, greens and the blues, in Chariot Racing, which in 532, resulted in the far worse than anything the West of Scotland has seen up to 2021, in football terms, the Nilka Riots. (Really the blues and the greens had developed in to a political rivalry, and the unpopularity of the emperor and his policies were a target  ( not spelt targest )  in this. So this is not really a coincidence, actually other than the colours, it makes even the Old Firm rivalry look sedate and good natured, in comparison , not that it always is, but in comparison it does. The old firm rivalry is sedate sometimes though. 

28 Piri Reis, of the Ottoman lands, is famed for creating a map that is said to have been created in 1513. The most amazing thing is that Antarctica and it's coastline is said to be on the map. Many wonder if this is just a extension of  Patagonia, or some decorative theoretical continent drawn by coincidence. What century was Antarctica first as in part of it's land mass, sighted and recorded  as in being sighted  by humans. 

29 Which tribe Mali, according to controversial reports from 1930s, French anthropologist , Griaule, seemed to have  knowledge of star systems and such, in their quite old mythology, sights that were way beyond the naked eye. from a time when they had no aids to help them, like good telescopes and such. Supposedly it was the stars of Sirius, the rings of Saturn, and moons of Jupiter.

30 Jonathan Swift seems to have predicted in his works, moons on a planet, that only had it's moons proven by research the next century.  With good predictions of their characteristics. Which planet ?

31 What Celtic country was once called Albania, like that land in the Balkans. 

32 Convergent evolution is when 2 separate species develop the same evolutionary trait, from different lineages. Humans have opposable thumbs, what  black and white creature from China, also developed them in their evolutionary process. Edinburgh zoo had some in the 2010s. 

33 Charles Darwin was born on the same day as which USA president. 

34 Which USA presidents, who both were part of  the committee of 5 that helped draft the US declaration of independence, died on the same day in 1826, 50 years after the adoption of it, July 4th.

35 Which king of Italy was assassinated in the early 1900s, by a anarchist supposedly in revenge for some general supressing a revolt in Milan, by many deaths, ( i oppose violence ) and there is a legend, about that he on the same day or day before he met a cafe owner in Monza, who looked exactly the same as he himself the king, and was born on the same day, in the same town married a lady of the same name on the same day, and opened his cafe, the same day of his coronation, and died the same day he did. 

36 Mark Twain was born when Hayley's comet appeared in the sky, in the 19th Century, he claimed he would die the  next time it arrived, he made this claim in the next century. Did he?

37 JFK was shot on November 22nd 1963, which of these events did not happen on that day as well, Aldous Huxley died, C S Lewis, died,  The Beatles released their second album, in the UK, and Amando Ianucci, the Scottish satirist was born. 

38 True or false, lookalike in some pics,, Mezit Ozil was born the same day that Enzo Ferrari died,

39 Which of these events did not occur on either, the 14th, 15th or 16th 17th of October 1964, Labour was elected into office under Harold Wilson, The post of Secretary of State for Wales was created, The People's Republic of China, detonated a nuclear weapon, for the first time, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was overthrown by the Soviet leadership, a Soviet lady broke the world javelin record, at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo 1964 Olympics (The first held in Asia, ), and the inaugural Volleyball men and women's Olympic volleyball tournaments were occurring, and Dr Martin Luther King, received the Nobel Peace prize, and Harry Hill was born, 

40 Maiden's Castle was the name for which Scottish castle, in the 16th Century or earlier, very similar to the great Maiden Castle Hillfort,

41 Charlie Chaplin was born just 4 days before Adolf Hitler but lived 3 decades longer, true or false,

42 Gareth Bale, and Christian Bale, have the same surname, and look quite similar. Both have hit the top of their professions, in terms of being in the top echelon of their either acting or footballing levels, with mass international fame and stardom. Both were born in the 1970s to 1980s era. Both had star studded stats at a young age, with Chrisian a child actor in Empire of the Sun, and Gareth Bale, among the youngest ever starters for Southampton ever at his debut.,  Both were born in South Wales, both had Defoe, in their team, Christian in his movie American Psycho, as in  William Defoe, the actor, while Gareth had Jermaine Defoe, at Spurs, also Gareth had Craig Gordon in his team, while Christian had James Gordon in Batman. Both also are careful with their diets and exersize with some of their roles, Gareth for obvious reasons, Christian for some of his parts needed specific physiques. Gareth is a great fan well was in the 2010s of nandos, and Christian once ate a lot of chicken. Also they won some big awards the same years one of the movie awards and one the same years as they won a major European cup or European Championship Semi Final status for Wales thing. So both have had uprbringings in Britain/. Also, after leaving Madrid, Real Madrid, Gareth Bale, declined chances to go to Spurs and Cardiff City, and in 2022, went to the Los Angeles FC, the city of the home of Christian Bale's Hollywood. But is it true that every year Gareth Bale won the European Cup that Christian Bale won the Oscar as best actor.

43 If you look at maps today amazingly some historical maps show coincidences. Such as strength of certain political parties and some historic boundary from the past. Often it is easily explainable like Southern States have divided opinions to northern states in US elections partly as of history, and geography also has similar affects on different situations like how different empires or peoples are halted by some major Boundary. These things turns up from India to Europe, and sometimes have ancient coincidences or a common stem of a reason.

So in the 1980s and 1990s and even 2020s, Plaid Cymru have a history of winning Westminster seats in Wales more commonly in places that till the 16th Century were part of the Crown's Principality of Wales, the lands that had been taken from the likes of Llewellyn in the 13th Century, mostly in west Wales, and less so in lands that were led by the Marcher lords till the 16th Century as almost semi statelets. What 2 decades were the Laws of Wales acts passed, or acts of union as some call them. 

44 Controversiall comedian Woody Allen, Kalingrad, and Chojna in Poland, and Silver Mountain in California have something in common what would that be, 

45 So Nelson Mandela was a great man, a credit so all South Africans, and I think the Long Walk to Freedom, and The Usual suspects are the 2 movies with some of the best endings, so dramatic and cool. But Also I get annoyed when people talk of the Mandela effect. Apparently some people claim that when Mandela was released in the 1990s, that they thought he had been murdered during the Apartheid regime in a police HQ in the 1980s, and a few people claim this, so some take their memory as a fact. So some claim this is a slip in the Matrix or proof of different dimensions inter relating. I say it is just that the  general public are not as knowledgeable about current affairs as some claim, and that actually those people were remembering the murder of a other anti apartheid leader. Just like how someone in Liverpool once told me you can get a ferry to Scotland, (They meant Ireland) and someone else once told me, their neighbour  thought Tony Blair, the PM, whose seat was in Geordieland,   was their MP, when they lived in Wales. I am sure they just confused him with the famous other anti apartheid campaigner, of the era, who was put in custody, what was that man who was killed in 1977's name. initials SB. 

46 What 3 letter word beginning with N, word needs to be swapped for the 3 letter word here, and in one case, 4, letter,  to make them places that are more famous than what I say here.

Old Zealand, Old York, Old Scotia, Old England, Old South Wales, Old Mexico, Oldport South Wales, Oldtown Mid Wales, Old Jersey, Old Hampshire, Oldfoundland, Old Brunswick. Old Orleans, Old Delhi, Old Ireland, Papua Old Guinea,  

47 Marcus Van Broxhorn and William Jones, in the 17th and 18th Century both realised a amazing link between Indian and European languages, what ancient nationality in between those 2 lands did the Dutch one call the original language of those languages. Clue, it begins with Scy,  

48 Illya Kuryakin was a Russian spy in a Tv series, who looked like Putin who was later a Russian president, what was the series, coincidence is Putin also worked for a spy ahency, though outside Russian borders. What TV series was Illya in. 

49 Identity in politics has a effect, such as how Southern US states vote markedly different in percentage terms to Northern US states, and those Northern US states vote differently as of their identities. Well in Britain, Wales and Scotland have voted differently to their English allies in many elections, and industrial areas vote differently to their rural areas. All sorts of things, industrial history, class history, level of immigrations from different parts of the British Isles and the world affect these political maps. In England which of these would be the bigger indicator of what party a whole constituency would vote for in the 2017 and 2019 UK elections. The fact a constituency is urban or rural or the fact it was led by Cornwall, or the Vikings or the Saxon kingdoms in the Dark Ages. 

50 Harold WIlson boasted that England won the world Cup in 1966 under Labour. In football then is it the case that party politics have affected who has won the Scottish premier League, is it the case Celtic only win the league when Labour and the SNP are in power in Britain or just Holyrood, and is it the case the Rangers only win it when the Conservatives are in power. 

51 In 1913, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Stalin and Hitler, and Emperor Franz Joseph, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand,  were all living in the same place, which city am I referring to. 

52 Did anybody ever appear on TV in the 1950s US, who saw the assasination of Abraham Lincoln.

53 So political waves, often spread across from nation to nation, partly as of example, and partly as of the same global or regional affects causing it so. Such as the revolutionary events of late 18th Century USA, France, Belgium, Saxony, and so, the Refeormation in Western Europe, the revolutions, in Europe of 1831, and 1848, and to a extent 1917-21. The move right in Europe to dictatorship in the 1930s, across Europe. In Europe after World War Two, along with trhe forced move left as of actions by the allies, and more so the USSR and it's armies many land became left wing. Indeed there were also left wing revolutionary events and massive election wings,  from China and Vietnam and  China to France and Czechoslovakia, but which country in 1946 voted to abolish it's monarchy by referendum. 

54 Which of the Eastern European communist states  was the home of Solidarity, which helped cause a change from Communism, to Democracy, Across Eastern Europe at the same time. 

55, In the late 1990s, in Western Europe there was a mini surge in support or comings to power of centre left parties, in which country was Jospin elected PM.

56 After the 2001 attacks on New York, there was a swing to centre right and Right Wing parties across the world, in which country was John Howard re-elected PM, using rhet after having trailed the centre left opposition till around the time of the events,

57 Which country saw it's leader Gerhard Schroder, use opposition to the Iraq War in the mid 2000s, to make his centre left party, perform far more respectably in the lection than was feared, something centre left parties across the world used like some did in the Vietnam War, from here to India.

58 in 2016, the USA saw the election of Donald Trump as President, the same year as Britain narrowly voted to leave the EU, some saw similar reasons for why the votes went this way. Which country the same year saw right wing Freedom Party, for similar reasons, perhaps the Syrian Civil war, a reaction to globalisation of trade nad such, almost become the first post war party other than the centrist and centre left People's Part and SDP to get it's member elected, only to the suprise of that swing metric only for a Green Party candidate, Alexander Van De Bellen, to win in the end.

59 During tjhe Covid pandemic 2020-21, there seems to have at the start to have been a swing to the centre and/ or  left, on top of Biden and the Dems, being recorded as winning in  2020. Which country saw the Green Party achieve their best ever result in the country, one of the largest in Europe at 14.8 percent, and so them getting back power in a national government for the first time in over a decade ,

60 Sometimes this international swing does not chime at all, indeed which country during the 1980s, when Britain elected Thatcher, and the USA Reagan, elected it's first, Socialist President of the 5th Republic.

61 Edward Bulwer -Lytton in 1839, wrote, the pen is mightier than the sword, but a Assyrian sage wrote a similar remark, in 500BC the word is mightier than the sword, Ahiqar, also Biblical, Islamic and Talmud, sources indicate similar statements, and Napoleon wrote four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousands bayonets, but whom wrote "many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills"

62 The Power of ___ What,4 letter word, is missing there I mean,  was a song a different song by Jennifer Rush, Huey Lewis and the News, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood,  Along with many other bands)

63 During the cold war the Soviet Communists condemned the USA system, as full of economic inequality, crime and gangsterism, which many felt was a daft exageration, but during the 1990s, many critiqued Russia in it's transformation to capitalism, in such the same way, maybe many would condemn that as unafir as well, but which of the USSR's, 15 constiuent republics, was the last to declare independence, or sovereignty from the USSR.

64 Stephen Colbert is a famous  early 21st Centrury, American comedian, on late night US TV, , presenting the Late Show, while Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a major French political figure of the 17th Century. Name the musician, that appears on Colbert's shows, with a remarkably unifying name, for the 2 figures.

65 What name united both Winston Churchill's wife, and the leader of the Labour Party that became PM by defeating him in the 1945 election.

66 In 2020 The USA was struck by Covid, after it spread from a source in Asia,China, and I am not blaming them by the way,  to Europe, then spread strongly  in New York, the major port of entry to the USA, before spreading rampantly across the USA. In the

19th Century a disease started off again in a country  in Asia, India, and I am not blaming them either, spread to Europe, and just like Covid, was feared with dread that it would arrive, With just like for Covid, there being calls for restrictions on entries to the country, or a watch. (And then after reaching New York the completely major port of entry to the USA spread over time across the USA). With just like then, the rich often leaving the major cities, and being better protected as of their greater resources. and the poorer being more badly affected, and disputes about the legitimacy of doctors choices, being chanted by some campaigners. Again there was legitimate confusion from doctors about the nature of the disease at the start of the epidemic. What was the name of this disease. It first reached the USA in the 1830s. With it first striking there in a presidential  election year. just like for covid.

67 What do the capital of Ohio, the large country in between Panama and Venezuela, and a state in Western Canada have in common.

68 In Archaeology, the joke, to decrease people making wild guesses from little evidence,  is 2 stones make a wall, and 3 a what, it is a ironic critisism,

69 In 1993, both leaders of the UK's main parties were called John, so there  was a statement, a lot of people called John are leaders of the parties, ir it is a good name for a party leader, or there are more and more of them, So between 1900 and 2021, how many other fellows  called John, have been leader of either Labour or  Tory Party.

70 In 1992 Party Politics won the Grand National, what was coincidental about that.

71 In 1987 Martell a drinks company purchased another drinks company called Seagram, and Seagram sponsored the grand national from 1984 to 1991, thats the Aintree one, what was unusual about the 1991 grand national winner.

72  One thing I do not like is when people as if say, one starling makes a summer kind of coincidences. Like when in the UK, since 1945, Labour or the Tories have won every election, and a election is once every 4 or 5 years. So one party wins a election, in 1992, then a other in 1997, and then for effect someone says, well the so and so will be feeling unconfident about winning in this 2001 election, as they have not won one since the early 1990s, but considering there was only 1 election in between the truth is there was only 1 attempt. And it happens in rugby, in the 6 nations, Scotland may go 3 seasons of not beating Ireland at Dublin, and then it is 6 years since they last won there, well it is hardly that amazing to lose there away from home, so not that big a deal, especially if Ireland have been ranked higher than Scotland for all that time, it is extra not that amazing. Yes 30 years is bad, and any number is annoying, like Scotland went v England, at Twickenham, or Aberdeen at Ibrox, (It made the eventual wins all the sweter, although winning sooner would have been even more fun) but even that can be explained as on the other hand Scotland have not lost to certain teams at Murrayfield for ages, and Aberdeen have had good records of not losing streaks,  lasting v Dundee and Killie, and Killie and Dundee have good records of not losing v some teams. But its not so amazing if only 1 go, and same in Scottish football, for Rangrs, Celtic Aberdeen runs, people making more out of a mole hill, as if it is everything. So a question, since 1945 what is the shortest amount of time a party has been able to say it has not won a election since,  after losing the most recent election. The same also occurs in USA.
73 What do Labour's election result in 1951, Edward Heath's Tories in 1974 February election, Al Gore's in 2000, and Hilary Clinton's in 2016 have in common.  Remember in most election as of maths, the party that wins the most votes normally wins the election, usually a pretty sensible way of organising democracies.
74  What do the largest hillfort in the vicinity of Dorchester, and Edinburgh Castle have in common. Plus a hillfort by Durham.
75 What  links John Major and Oliver Cromwell, with Huntingdon,
76 What links William Ewart Gladstone, and Sir Arthur Salter, in terms of Oxford University and Westminster politics.
77, What do Stirling Albion and Liverpool FC have in common in terms of the 20th Century, and arrangements for games.
78  What do the 4th President of the USA, and a  English footballer born in 1996, who has played for Norwich, Leicester, Coventry,  and Aberdeen, and England,  have in common.

79 In the 1996 Euro Champs, England drew Germany in the semi final, why did some people make what some regarded as borderline xenophobic jokes, about the time of the start of the match,

80  Which of these countries not have wars partly about the nature of belief,  or religion, or not religon, in the 1640s and 1650s,

Russia, England, France, Scotland,  (I know athiests have had religious belief wars as well)

80 Which of these was not in Dallas on the day JFK was Asssasinated.

JFK, LBJ, Richard Nixon,  Abraham Zapruder, Governor John Connally, Ralph Yarborough, Don Yarborough, Jackie Kennedy, and  Robert F Kennedy,

81 What do  Tiger Woods, Jules Angst, Michael Ball footballer, Sprinter Usain Bolt, William Headline of CNN, and William Wordsworth have in common, plus Thomas Crapper,

82  In 2014 Scotland had a referendum on independance, and in 1997 on devolution and in 1979, while in 2021. While New Caledonia had referendums on independence in 2018, 2020, and 2021. Nova Scotia meanwhile had referendums in 1929 and 2004, what were these referendums on, either a independence and devolution, or B, Sunday shopping and prohibitionism and that kind of thing to do with alcohol.

83 So Wales is a country of the the British Isles,  and also Europe, but in what part of England is the village of Wales in, either South  East  England, or Yorkshire,  or North East England,

84 The Mayans apparently had wars fought called the Axe Wars, kind of smaller scale wars between their city states, what was the name of the wars of a larger scale, that George Lucas may have been pretty intrigued by. 

85 In Legend a founder  of Rome was Romulus, with Remus, and of course Constantine made Constantinople, Byzantium, Istanbul the capital of the Roman Emperor, what was the name coincidently I dont need the numerical number just the main name for him, in the 21st Century history books for the last emperor of Byzantium when it was conquerred by the Ottomans.

86  Poland and Monaco have similar flags, a red and also a white horizontal stripe, one has red on top one red at bottom, which of these lands does Indonesia which also does this have a most similar one to. 
 

87 Ivory Coast and The Republic of Ireland, Green, have similar flags, white and orange tricilour, which has the green on the left. 

88 Which 1970s Danny Devito comedy series has almost the same name as Robert De Niro's 1980s famous movie about a cab driver. Plus a 1930s James Cagney movie, and a 1998 French movie.

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89 Scotland and Russia both have similar flags, that represent them at some event the which saint is this flag named after, not the main Russia or even the old Soviet flag, I mean the other,

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90 Catalonia, England and Genoa each have a flag with a cross on, of which saint, 

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91 Which patron saint of Scotland, England or Wales is the only one almost certainly born in Britain, 

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92 So Prussia at times was not considered as German a state in the 18th Century as other parts, but united Germany, in the 19th Century, and Macedonia was so for ancient Greece, but united it under Alexander the Great, in a way,  what was the name for the 18th Century Prussian king, commonly labeled "The great"

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93 Which US TV show, of the late 1990s to 2020s and maybe longer, in clips, seems to have predicted way before it was a logically very likely thing, the election of Donald Trump as President, the radical change in Russian relations with the west for the 2020s, and much more. Such as a doughnut shaped universe, the shard, and the Siegfried and Roy Tiger attack, Though the last one maybe its not that unlikely. Plus that Aussie episode where the Aussie PM is in a pub, is told off by a voter, or not, he is just in a pub, has had a couple of times where a voter was amazingly mundane with them, like the 2020s one told to get off a lawn friendlily. by a voter, during his impromptu speech, 

94 Which Prehistoric site in Wiltshire, Southern England, has a remarkably similar name to a Simpsons character, which you may also name, one of the major ones from the 1990s to the 2020s at least first letter W,

95 Is it true., that in the Late Dark Ages, the Welsh were known as the Britons, and by 2022, some great proud Welsh nationalists, would actually be annoyed if they were only given the option of ticking British in a ethnicity form, rather than also Welsh, as as of the ravagaes of time, the term has been almost more in ownership of the national identity of Britain as a whole, including England, now, and also that in the Dark Ages the Gaelic language was brought to Scotland by the "Scots" from Ireland, but by 17th Century, some people in Central Scotland, who spoke their dialect or even diverged version of English, namely Lolland, or Erse or Doric, called their language Scots English or even Scots, and called the Gaelic speakers, Gaels or even Irish, and that the English who for the Dark Ages called the Welsh, the Welsh, or the Britons, were now at times, in the 20th Century interchangably calling Britain and England the same thing, much to many Scottish patriots and Welsh patriots annoyance, which became less used so as of their nagging against this mistake, after all British means all Britain, not just English, and all people of Britain, Welsh, English and Scottish can use the term, if they identify as that or not. 

96 For which North East Scottish football team, do Fergusson, Miller and Smith, have in common as managers, in their names, .

97 What do Alex Fergusson, Alex Smith and Jim Goodwin as Aberdeen managers have in common with up to 2022, as Aberdeen managers, in who they previously managed, 98 What was the surname of the ex-Japanese PM, assassinated in 2022, linked to some of the questions early in this quiz.  about the same subject.  

99 The Curse of Tutankhamun, said to be claptrap by some observers, as many associated to the unearthing of the tomb died much later, like Howard Carter, over 16 years later, and some decades later, well which financial backer died within half a year from a mosquito bite,

100 The Superman curse, a series of tragic events befel some associated to the character superman, which popular actor, who playted the character in 1970s and 1980s movies campaigned for stem cell research, after having a terrible accident, in 1995.

101  Newtown is a name of a location for places worldwide, but which of them is where Robert Owen the social reformer was from, the one in Mid Wales, or Derbyshire, 

102 Which town in Scotland, is also the capital of Western Australia

103 Thebes is a city in Greece and Ancient Egypt, is it true that this was what both were called by Ancient Greeks, 

104 Spot the true one, Papua New Guyana, Equatorial Guyana,and the former British colony in South America that was called British Guinea, plus the West African country of Guinea,

105 Which of these is in North East England, Newcastle Upon Tyne or Newcastle Emlyn, 

106 Which Swedish tennis player, who was known as placid and clam during matches, and seen as a great force, and first player to reach a million dollars in prize money in a season in the 1970s, was also of the same name as the seemingly unbeatable Star Trek characters, that Captain Picard had to face.  Patrick Stewart has also watched Wimbledon. 

107 Which island nation in the Pafic is also the name of a tribe of Malawi, begining with T. 

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Answers

1 True also it is not spelt  assasinated or assasin 

2 True 

3 True 

4 True, 

5 True, 

6 True

7 True  

8 True, 

9 False, 

10 Tutankhamun also it is not spelt Pharoah or mausaleum

11 Brasil, 

12 Farming 

13 Hayley's comet

14 True

15 New Zealand 

16 1898,

17 1788

18 Jung and Yeats, Ok maybe Collective unconscious and great mind, are different theories, but they are quite similar from a simplistic misinterpretation by me. I am not supporting either theory, or opposing, just nice they had similar thoughts. Also lots of people fear doom is about to occur, and nothing happens, so maybe they were just lucky on that, well unlucky really, whatever the case, I am not a expert at all on either. so excuse my misssunderstanding. I mean I miss spell Jung as a  psychatrist, so have left it like that unspellchecked. 

19  Both times, there were leaders of the 2 main parties with the same name, I mean as in John, and Harold, both Harold's and both John's were leaders at the same time. 

20 Charlie Higgson and Paul Whitehouse, I remember the fact on QI. It was not Harry Enfield as I once thought.

21 They has the same first name, James, and the term for that used as their name, when they were in office as leader at the same time, of their countries.  

22 Both called Tony or Anthony, 

23 They had the same surname, and were managers at the same time, 

24 They were candidates in leadership elections, with the same first name,

25, yes, in 1974 and 1990, West Germany won, in 1970 and 1994 Brazil did, we all know England did in 1966, but no, it was France in 1998, and then  back ti a last mirroring, Brazil had in 1962, and did in 2002. For the rest of that mirroring it did not occur, indeed Italy 2006, and Brazil 1958, West Germany 1954, and Spain 2010, plus Uruguay 1950 and Germany 2014, then nobody in 1946, and France 2018 did not fit with the mirroring. 

26 Aberdeen won the Scottish league title in 1955 and 1985, but were runners up, still a OK position in historical terms for Aberdeen, in 2015. There is one other important year, that is for the Back to the Future 3, and 1885. Well that was the year that Arbroath beat Aberdeen's cricket team, Bon Accord 36 nil in the Scottish Cup. With on the same day Dundee Harp beat Aberdeen Rovers 35 to nil. I believe Aberdeen was late to football, being further from the industrial central belt, which is why Aberdeen sides had such bad scores that day.  Still those results are record wins in Scottish football record books. Aberdeen FC have restored Aberdeen's football reputation though many a time since.

27 Constantinople, or Byzantium, or Istanbul. There were other teams before, the Reds and Whites, (Hang on Glasweigan football team Third Lanark played in red) but they merged into the greens and whites, (Hang on Queens Park play in White, plus black, so that is a similar thing as well. Though Partick Thistle play in Yellow and red, so then again that is red, so interesting there.  Really though it is not that similar other than they both have blues and greens, and sport. and there is a rivalry, but even the fierce Old Firm, rivalry looks sedate compared to the Nika Riots, happily.  

28 The 19th Century 1820 by a Russian mission. 

29 The Dogon People of Mali. It is not certain though, many have said the evidence is more spurious than many say. 

30 Mars, and it's 2 moons, though some wonder if he was just using the knowledge of Kepler, that kind of predicted this.

31 Scotland

32 Pandas

33 Abraham Lincoln

34 Jefferson and Adams

35 Umberto

36 Yes,  

37 The satirist was born the same month, but a bit later, 

38 True

39 Comic Harry Hill was born the same month, but much earlier. 

40 Edinburgh Castle

41 True

42 Sorry but no, Christian Bale and Gareth Bale have won their respective trophies for their fields, but there is no exact correlation there really there.

43 The 1530s and 1540s.

44 They were all called Konigsberg, The Polish for the Baltic city's name was Krolewiec. Also Klimkovice, and Nova Bana, in Czechia, and Slovakia, had the title Konigsberg, as part of their names, or as their German names.  As too Chojna in Poland. Plus Konsberg in Norway has it as it's German label.There is still a place called Konigsberg in Bayern. which is in Bavaria Germany itself. Plus a mountain Slovakia, Kráľova hoľa, has it as it's German name. 

45 Steve Biko,  

46 New, and Nova. 

47 Scythia. 

48 The Man from Uncle. 

49 I looked it up and the urban rural divide is a much bigger factor. I dont really think there is much of a dark ages ethnic balance factor at all really. Unless you tried really hard to look, but I think that would be stretching the point. Though I think areas with high Celtic mostly Irish migration were voting stronger for Labour in the 20th Century, but of course they did as Labour were more seen by many as for poorer people, than the Tories, and if you are a immigrant you are more likely to have less money than the place you moved to, so that was less ethnic, than financial. There could be some dark ages effect, but I dont think there is. Indeed Cornwall seems almost as Tory as South East England's rural areas. So I  think the biggest marker politically in Britain is Industrial history and it's effects. Nationalism comes a lot into play in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland, as how identity is so important.  The 1997 map may indicate a Dark Ages effect, but that is likely cherry picking and anyway Cumbria was led by Scotland and it was Tory in 1997, so I think again it is not a factor. Then again South West Herefordshire went to the Lib Dems, I mean maybe it shows it had a mnute influence but the bigger effect was what happened in term of migration in the Industrial Revolution and such like. And to be fair Cumbria was quite Labour for a large in many parts rural county place in 1997. It was  a nice thing to research but is not the case.

50 No, of course not, Though I bet you could make up a conspiracy theory of JFK democrats helping Celtic in the 1960s and Aberdeen being helped as the Tories were in Power, and maybe were less Glasgow linked in the 1980s. But then again you could write it as a deranged way of proving conspsiracy tteories can be invented about everything. As a means of proving conspsiracy theories are wrong. Of course there may be some political influence but 99 percent is about the teams, and their fortune, and possibly the city itself. 

51 Vienna, not amazing when you consider it was one of the cities of a great European Empire at the time, Though it was amazing as a coincidence really.  Einstein was based in Prague in 1912 and Zurich, And he did do a lecture there in Vienna in 1913. Then again it was a major city like Paris, Moscow, or London, if anything as it had been the major city of it's territories for so long maybe slightly above Madrid and Rome as they were for Madrid less centrifugal, and for Rome, it had only quite recently again become the centre of all Italy, in some ways.  I mean Vienna had been the official boss of some of Northern Italy quite recently before the Italian unification. But it is amazing really. Lenin also visited Vienna in 1913 and printed anti Tsar leaflets apparently. Karl Steinhart a later leader of the Austrian Communist Party arrived in Vienna in 1913 as well, lots of other people arrived in Vienna in 1913, according to my google searches like some actors and actresses. 

52 Yes, and there were people on  1930s recordings who had been slaves

53 Italy.

54 Poland

55 France

56 Australia

57 Germany

58 Austria

59 Germany

60 France

61 William Shakespeare

62 Love

63 Kazakhstan though the same year 1991 as all the others.

64 Jon Batiste, from New Orleans,

65 Clement,  Clement Attlee, and Clementine Hozier

66 Cholera.

67 Each were partly named after Columbus,

68 A Building,

69 Just one,

70 It was the year of the 1992 General election, and the same month actually as well.

71 The winner was Martell, in terms of the name of the horse,
72  Answer Labour in early 1950s. They won an election, the majority was not big enough so they held another a year later, which they lost, so the next election was only 4 years later, or 5 or so after the election before last. PS I am talking in terms of seat totals, not votes in this sense, though votes do count.
73 The party that won the most votes finished seconds as of the way the electoral college, and or the constituency votes stacked up. Some say unfair, some say, hey they knew the rules. 
74  Maiden Castle is the name of 2, and one used to be called Maiden Castle, see my Maiden Castle page for that.
75 They both represented it at the House of Commons.
76 They both represented it at the House of Commons.
77 Both played At Anfield.
78 They have the same name. I almost forgot to write this, James Maddison.

79 It was 19:45 quarter to eight, so the year world war two ended, and there was a lot of jingoistic chatter about world war two in the tabloids, so some made a joke about it being the year World War Two ended, Some thought that was a good joke, some that it was remarking on a terrible chapter of history, in the  most beside the point jingoistic way possible. But then again, its interesting. I mean who wouldnt notice a thing like that after a while, so a cool thing to notice, but Germany and Britain including England were buddies in the 1990s as of being 2 peaceful liberal democracies, including their people,

80 Amazingly only RFK of those key figures was not in Dallas that day.

81 All have names associated to the professions they took up like Tiger Woods, uses a wood in golf. nominative determinism is the name or  something.  or for something like it , its not that exactly.

82 It was B, the Sunday shopping and prohibition stuff, in different referndums,

83 Yorkshire, it is near Rotherham, and has a similar reason for it's name to Wales in all lilkliehood.

84 The Star Wars, apparently they also had some scenes filled in some Mayan centres. as Lucas loved the structures, it was so  Star Wars like, I saw that or heard it on Fall of Civilisations, so Lucas apparently was a inventor of the term though himself as well, 

85 Constantine. Anyway here is my list of who has the best right to claim to be the successors of Rome. 

1 Italy as the Kingdom and now the Republic, 2 Rome councils today, 3 Constantinople / Istanbul Council, today 4 The Vatican, including the Papal States, 5 Turkey, 6 Constantinople when it finished, 6 European Union 7 United States, 8 Moscow, 9 Russian Federation 10 Ottomans, 11 Orthodox Church, 12 Greece, 21 Germany - Holy Roman Empire 22 France as it was in a way, 23 United Nations / League of Nations 24 Salmeniko Castle, 24 Avignon, 26 Ravenna 27 Castel dell'Ovo, 28 Ostrogoths, 29 Lombards, 30 Napoleon, 31 Spain, 32 Britain 33 Avingon, 34 Ravenna, 35 Other leaders who claimed to be leaders of Italy. 36 Romania, 37 Bulgaria, 38 Lots of other empires, 39 Places called Rome in the USA, 40 People who claim not be it, including people who stand on the spot in Rome where the guide says is where the emperors were crowned, and then imagine this means they are it. Like I did. 41 All other people who know of Rome, 42 People who have never heard of Rome etc 43 Aliens, if they exist,  44 Other aliens, 45 people of places before Rome founded, , 

Back to the quiz answers

86 Monaco 
87 Ireland 

88 Taxi 

89 St Andrew

90 St George

91 St David

92 Frederick, also Napoleon was from Corsica, so  a recent arrival to the French state,. Is there a argument Pictland and Gwynedd which were the bastions of Wales and Scotland, were peripheral, hmm, not really, they were just as central as the rest of Wales and Scotland, as too Wessex for England,

93 The Simpsons,

94 Wayland's Smithy, the chambered tomb not that far from the Uffington horse, the tomb is from the Neolithic, and Waylan Smithers, Mr Burns asistant, I always thought he was named after it, but no it is after some 1970s or 80s US star, so Waylan Smithers, and Wayland's chambered tomb, which is named after a Saxon or Germanic figure from their myths, despite it being a pre Celtic site,

95 Yes,

96 Aberdeen, and Alex,

97 Former St Mirren managers,  

98 Sinzo Abe, 

99  George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon

100 Christopher Reeve 

101  Mid Wales

102 Perth

103 Yes, Homer mentioned them, 

104 Guinea,

105  Newcastle Upon Tyne

106 Bjorn Borg and the Borg.

107 Tonga, .  

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