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| # | Question | Answer |
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| 701 | Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution? | Culloden |
| 702 | Who is the second longest reigning monarch in Britain, behind Queen Victoria? | George III |
| 703 | Napoleon was born on which island? | Corsica |
| 704 | The world`s first public railway was opened in which country? | England |
| 705 | What were the first living creatures sent into space by the United States? | Mice |
| 706 | How many took part in the Last Supper? | 13 |
| 707 | Which politician`s last words are said to be `I`m so bored with it all`? | Winston Churchill |
| 708 | In which year did John Major become leader of the Conservative party? | 1990 |
| 709 | Which major British newspaper closed down for almost a year in 1978? | The Times |
| 710 | The inhabitants of which English town hung a monkey during the Napoleonic wars? | Hartlepool - they thought it was a French spy |
| 711 | Who shot Martin Luther King? | James Earl Ray |
| 712 | With which foot did Neil Armstrong first step onto the moon? His right or his left? | His left |
| 713 | Who was the first U.S. president to reside in the White House? | John Adams |
| 714 | How many stars were there on the Confederate flag? | 13 |
| 715 | What links Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, Shokaku, Soryu and Zuikaku? | They were the Japanese aircraft carriers that attacked Pearl Harbour |
| 716 | How many funnels did Titanic have? | 4 |
| 717 | In 1949, which city became the capital of West Germany? | Bonn |
| 718 | What did Britain`s roads first acquire in 1914? | White Lines |
| 719 | Who was the second ever member of the Royal Family to divorce? | Princess Margaret |
| 720 | Aboard which ship did Captain Scott sail to the Antarctic in 1901? | The Discovery |
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| 721 | Which company opened the first Burger Restaurant in Britain in 1954? | Wimpey |
| 722 | Which century saw the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire? | 19th |
| 723 | Known as The Jersey Lily, actress Lily Langtry was the mistress of which King? | Edward VII |
| 724 | Before becoming President of the United States, Bill Clinton was govenor of which state? | Arkansas |
| 725 | What is the significance of the dates August 9th 1902, June 23rd 1911, May 12th 1937 and June 2nd 1953? | They`re Coronation dates |
| 726 | What was the name of England`s wartime code breaking station? | Bletchley Park |
| 727 | For what invention is Robert Oppenheimer famous? | The atomic bomb |
| 728 | Which country has been ruled by the Grimaldi dynasty for over 700 years? | Monaco |
| 729 | Who is the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated? | Spencer Perceval (in 1812) |
| 730 | What was the operational squadron number of the Dambusters? | 617 Squadron |
| 731 | Which World War II action had the code name Operation Chastise? | The Dambusters Raid |
| 732 | Colonel James Doolittle led the first bombing raid on which city during World War II? | Tokyo |
| 733 | Born in 1599, who coined the phrase `warts and all` while sitting for a portrait? | Oliver Cromwell |
| 734 | In which year did the English Civil War start? | 1642 |
| 735 | Who did Clementine Ogilvy Hozier marry in 1908? | Winston Churchill |
| 736 | Who invented the piano? | Bartolomeo Cristofori |
| 737 | Who was the oldest to be elected president of the United States? | Ronald Reagan |
| 738 | Before becoming President of the United States, George W Bush was govenor of which state? | Texas |
| 739 | Who is the only British Prime Minister to be born overseas? | Andrew Bonar Law |
| 740 | What Viking is said to have discovered America? | Eric the Red |
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| 741 | What was Ghandi`s real first name? | Mohandas |
| 742 | Other than Scapa Flow, where was much of the British fleet protected during World War 2? | Loch Ewe |
| 743 | What was the name of the Duke of Wellingtons horse at the Battle of Waterloo? | Copenhagen |
| 744 | Which US president was the first to reside in the White House? | John Adams |
| 745 | Who was the first person to sail around the world? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| 746 | In which decade did America last have four presidents? 1850s, 1880s or 1910s? | 1880s |
| 747 | In what year did the United States enter the First World War? | 1917 |
| 748 | In Roman mythology, who was the ruler of the Gods? | Jupiter |
| 749 | In Norse mythology, what name was given to the female warriors who carried the bodies of heroes from the battlefield to feast in Valhalla? | Valkyrie |
| 750 | Which famous Greek was a student of Plato and teacher to Alexander the Great? | Aristotle |
| 751 | By what name is Edward Teach better known? | Blackbeard |
| 752 | Who is the only US president to have served more than two terms in office? | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| 753 | Who invented the ball-point pen? | Laszlo Biro |
| 754 | What was the profession of Wyatt Earp`s sidekick Doc Holiday? | Dentist |
| 755 | With what did the CIA reputedly try to assassinate Fidel Castro? | An exploding cigar |
| 756 | What was Blackbeard's origanal name? | Edward Teach |
| 757 | In which city were the 1916 Olympic Games scheduled to take place before being cancelled due to the war? | Berlin |
| 758 | Who was the command module pilot for Apollo 11 in 1969? | Michael Collins |
| 759 | Which famous sailor was born in 1758 at Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk? | Horatio Nelson. |
| 760 | Which rebellion was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685? | The Monmouth Rebellion |
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| 761 | To which country did Tanzania belong before becoming a British mandate? | Germany |
| 762 | During World War II, how was William Joyce better known? | Lord Haw-Haw |
| 763 | Who was British Prime Minister on V-J Day? | Clement Attlee |
| 764 | In which British city did the Peterloo massacre take place in 1819? | Manchester |
| 765 | In a competition in 1829, what beat Cycloped, Novelty, Perseverance and Sans Pareil? | Stephenson's Rocket (Rainhill Trials) |
| 766 | Which monarch held her nerve in the Bedchamber Crisis? | Queen Victoria |
| 767 | Who had a two ounce stone cut from his bladder in 1658? | Samuel Pepys |
| 768 | Who overthrew King Idris in 1969? | Colonel Gaddafi (in Libya) |
| 769 | What was the name of the rocket used by Yuri Gagarin for the first manned space flight? | Vostok 1 |
| 770 | What name was given to the Samuri code of honour? | Bushido |
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