1. What exclusive category of prisoners was incarcerated in Dartmoor Prison when it first opened in 1806?

2. What happened in May 1849 at New York’s Astor Place Theatre as a result of two rival productions of Macbeth being staged in the city at the same time?

3. In February 1941, the SS Politician ran aground off the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides, an event inspiring the plot of which novel and later film?

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

5. Where was Catherine the Great of Russia born?

6. Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Adolf Hitler?

7. What caused 7,343 deaths in Britain in 1934, but only 1,602 in 2024 beause of improved technical advances, safety measures and legislation?

8. The famous suffragist Emily Pankhurst had three daughters who were also activists for women’s emancipation. Sylvia is fairly well known, but can you name either of the other two?

9. The flag of the Confederate States of America had thirteen stars on it, yet there were only eleven states in the Confederacy. Can you name either (or both) of the two extra states?

10. From 1925 untill 1979, the Pahlavi dynasty ruled which nation?

11. Which American president launched and first used the term “The War on Drugs”?

12. What was the name of the first company in Britain to begin selling in 1958 what is known as “soft serve” ice cream?