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| 561 | At which battle in World War I were tanks used for the first time? | The Battle Of The Somme | |
| 562 | In 1319, which country was Sweden united with under the rule Magnus VII? | Norway | |
| 563 | In which century were the War of the Roses fought? | 15th | |
| 564 | Which famous person in history was born in 356 BC and had a horse called Bucephalus? | Alexander the Great | |
| 565 | Which English King was publicly beheaded in front of his palace in 1649? | Charles I | |
| 566 | What large plant-eating dinosaur has a name that means `thunder lizard`? | Brontosaurus | |
| 567 | The first Opium War was a conflict between which two nations? | Great Britain and China | |
| 568 | Which famous person in history, when he died he left his property in his will to his two daughters, sister, three nephews and many friends, but left nothing to his wife Anne? | William Shakespeare | |
| 569 | In 1993, Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of which country? | Canada | |
| 570 | Why was Louise Brown famous in 1978? | She was the first test-tube baby | |
| 571 | When was Adolf Hitler born? 1879, 1889 or 1899? | 1889 | |
| 572 | For what event in particular is baker Thomas Farynor best known? | Starting the Great Fire of London | |
| 573 | Who was British Prime Minister from 1955 to 1958? | Anthony Eden | |
| 574 | How many husbands did Mary Queen of Scots have? | 3 | |
| 575 | In what year was the first television broadcast in the UK? 1930, 1933 or 1936? | 1936 | |
| 576 | Who patented the sewing machine in 1851? | Isaac Singer | |
| 577 | Who was shot in the back by Jack McCall in 1876 in the Number 10 Saloon in Deadwood, South Dakota? | Wild Bill Hickok | |
| 578 | In what year was Hong Kong returned to China? | 1997 | |
| 579 | Who was responsible for the introduction of the penny post in Britain in 1840? | Sir Rowland Hill | |
| 580 | Who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe? | Sir Francis Drake | |
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| 581 | Who replaced Asquith as leader of a coalition government during World War I? | David Lloyd George. | |
| 582 | How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known? | Mother Theresa | |
| 583 | Where was Napoleon Bonaparte`s place of exile? Corsica, St Helena or Jersey? | St Helena | |
| 584 | How many of Henry VIII`s wives were called Catherine? | 3 | |
| 585 | In which year was the Declaration Of Independence signed in America? | 1776. | |
| 586 | In what year did London`s last tram run? 1932, 1942 or 1952? | 1952 | |
| 587 | Which English King was nicknamed `The Hammer of the Scots`? | Edward I | |
| 588 | Who, at 42 years old, was the youngest President of the United States of America? | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| 589 | Which British Prime Minister was assassinated in 1812? | Spencer Perceval | |
| 590 | In what year was the battle of Trafalgar? | 1805 | |
| 591 | When women first got the vote in Britain in 1918, how old did they have to be? | 30 | |
| 592 | In which city is Karl Marx buried? | London | |
| 593 | Which Canadian city was originally called York in 1793? | Toronto | |
| 594 | What was the name of the blind Benedictine monk who invented Champagne? | Dom Perignon | |
| 595 | In which century did the Battle Of Agincourt take place? | 15th | |
| 596 | In what year did King John sign the Magna Carta? | 1215 | |
| 597 | In what century was Joan of Arc born? | 15th | |
| 598 | Who was the dance the `Lindy Hop` named after? | Charles Lindbergh | |
| 599 | How many colonies made up the original United States in 1776? | 13 | |
| 600 | Who were the parents of Queen Elizabeth the first? | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn | |
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| 601 | Which two countries fought in the hundred years war? | England and France | |
| 602 | Captain Matthew Webb, famous for swimming the English Channel, drowned in 1883 attempting to swim what? | The rapids below Niagra Falls | |
| 603 | In which century was William Wallace born? | 13th | |
| 604 | Who was the first American president to resign from office? | Richard Nixon | |
| 605 | What nationality was Nostradamus? | French | |
| 606 | What was the name of the world`s first test-tube baby? | Louise Brown | |
| 607 | Who was the third crew member along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission? | Michael Collins | |
| 608 | Which historical event does the London structure called the Monument commemorate? | The Great Fire Of London. | |
| 609 | Who, in 1901, was the first man to send a Radio Telegraph signal across the Atlantic Ocean? | Guglielmo Marconi | |
| 610 | Who was the first American President to die while in office? | William Harrison | |
| 611 | Which monarch`s last words were `All my possessions for a moment of time`? | Elizabeth I | |
| 612 | What was the name of the suffragette who threw herself under the King`s horse in the 1913 Derby? | Emily Davison | |
| 613 | By what name was Sir Arthur Wellesley better known? | Duke of Wellington | |
| 614 | Who was the third President of America and chief authour of the Declaration Of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson | |
| 615 | Which famous person in history invented the greeting, `Hello` first used for answering the telephone? | Thomas Edison | |
| 616 | In which year did Richard Nixon begin the secret bombing of Cambodia? | 1969 | |
| 617 | Who was the first American President to visit China? | Richard Nixon | |
| 618 | In what year did the first successful Mars landings take place? 1970, 1973 or 1976? | 1976 | |
| 619 | Which famous museum opened in London, in April 1928? | Madam Tussauds | |
| 620 | By what title was Oliver Cromwell known? | Lord Protector | |
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| 621 | Who did Queen Elizabeth I succeed to the throne? | Mary I | |
| 622 | Which English queen was married to Lord Guildford Dudley? | Lady Jane Grey | |
| 623 | In which country did the cloning of Dolly the sheep take place? | Scotland | |
| 624 | As at the year 2001, who has been the tallest American President? | Abraham Lincoln | |
| 625 | In which month in 1914, did Britain declare war on Germany? | August | |
| 626 | Which king was the target of the Gunpowder plot of 1605? | James I | |
| 627 | In what year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister? | 1979 | |
| 628 | What was King William II killed by? An arrow, the plague or old age? | An Arrow | |
| 629 | In which century was the world`s first public railway opened? | 19th | |
| 630 | The explorer Sir Edmund Hillary was from which country? | New Zealand | |
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