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History 431 questions.
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Pub quiz question 4396 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who served as Vice-President to Bill Clinton and gained over half a million votes more than George W Bush when Bush was elected President in 2000?
  2. Answer: A: Al Gore
  3. Categories: Politics (5) History (5) 2000s (5)
Pub quiz question 7123 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What century saw the start of the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
  2. Answer: A: 18th (1760-1820/40)
  3. Categories: History (5)
Pub quiz question 3252 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who founded the cubism movement with George Braque?
  2. Answer: A: Pablo Picasso
  3. Categories: History (5) Art (5)
  4. Times used:
Pub quiz question 380 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Whose seaplane was nicknamed "The Spruce Goose?"
  2. Answer: A: Howard Hughes
  3. Categories: History (5) General Knowledge (5)
Pub quiz question 6478 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: In ancient Egypt, what was kept in canopic jars?
  2. Answer: A: Entrails of mummies
  3. Categories: History (3) Egypt (3)
Pub quiz question 3802 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What number is represented by the Roman numeral M?
  2. Answer: A: 1,000
  3. Categories: History (2) Mathematics (2)
Pub quiz question 7084 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What disaster swept London the year before the Great Fire?
  2. Answer: A: The Great Plague/Black Death
  3. Categories: London, UK (2) History (2)
Pub quiz question 585 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who gave up the title of Viscount Stansgate to remain an MP?
  2. Answer: A: Tony Benn
  3. Notes: *: He disclaimed the peerage in 1963 on the day the Peerage Act 1963 passed into law and made it possible for him to do so.
  4. Categories: Politics (6) History (8) 1960s (7)
  5. Times used:
Pub quiz question 4275 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What now-common fairground ride was first erected at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with an axle that was at the time the world's largest piece of forged steel?
  2. Answer: A: Ferris Wheel/Big Wheel
  3. Notes: *: The original was also known as the Chicago Wheel
  4. Categories: Leisure (3) History (3)
Pub quiz question 3122 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which English city appointed Swansea-born dandy Beau Nash as its Master of Ceremonies?
  2. Answer: A: Bath
  3. Categories: People (8) Geography (8) History (8)