1. What was abolished on New Year’s Day 1961? The first copper versions were created in the reign of James VI of Scotland/James I of Great Britain.

2. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain in the year that the Titanic sank?

3. Who was prime Minister of Britain in the year that Hitler became Chancellor of Germany?

4. In what year was the state of Israel founded?

5. In the middle of the 17th century, the Suffolk Puritan, William Dowsing, was a man who relished smashing anything which he thought was representative of Catholic idolatory. What was his favourite object of destruction, even though Protestants not only believed they were divine, but also made images of them in many of their own churches?

6. What was the title of the first ever BBC Radio soap opera, begun in 1948?

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

8. In December, 1860, which was the first US state to secede from the union, beginning the creation of the Confederate Staes and setting off the American Civil war the following year?

9. What famous structure was designed and built to be the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair? It remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for 41 years.

10. Founded in 1883 in London, what organisation was the Primrose League created to suppport?

11. How long did Louis XIX reign as King of France?

12. What name, derived from the Caribbean Arawak language for a frame on which meat is smoked, was used to describe pirates operating in the West Indies in the later 17th century?

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