1. What began in Pudding Lane in London in 1666?

2. The Chincha Islands War of 1864-66 was fought over control of what natural resource located on these small islands off the coast of Peru?

3. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

4. What caused 7,343 deaths in Britain in 1934 but only 1,556 in 2025?

5. During the American Civil War, what were Confederate agents seeking to buy in Glasgow and the west of Scotland in 1862?

6. Name one of Emily Pankhurst’s three daughters, all suffragette activists.

7. From 1925 till 1979, the Pahlavi Dynasty ruled which nation?

8. In 1486, 36 years after Johann Gutenberg set up the first printing press in Mainz, what was the first-ever printed book to be banned by the Catholic Church?

9. In what modern-day nation was the biblical Queen of Sheba’s kingdom located?

10. Name one of the three men who were at various times deputy leader of the Labour Party when Harold Wilson was Prime Minister.

11. What was the name of the play that Abraham Lincoln was attending at Ford’s Theatre when he was assassinated?

12. Which British foreign secretary held that office for the longest tenure of any? He uttered the immortal phrase, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our life-time.”