History Quiz
Difficulty : Medium-Easy Get 7/10 correct to pass the quiz
Question 1 of 10
What famous military and political leader is often depicted with his right hand tucked inside his waistcoat?
Question 2 of 10
Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the UK, was in office for all of which decade?
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Question 3 of 10
What name did Karol Jozef Wojtyla take on October 16, 1978?
Question 4 of 10
Desmond Tutu was a prominent religious leader in which country?
Question 5 of 10
What is Barack Obama's middle name?
Question 6 of 10
In the 1961 Wimbledon Championships Women's Singles Final (tennis), which country were both finalists from?
Question 7 of 10
In 1960 which type of medicine was released for the first time in the USA?
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Question 8 of 10
What 1957 Leonard Bernstein musical featured the Jets and the Sharks?
Question 9 of 10
Which famous Paris hotel taken over by occupying Germans as the local headquarters of the Luftwaffe in WW2?
Question 10 of 10
What famous person said: "Sit in reverie and watch the changing colour of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind"?
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