Holtby Trader International Quiz
100 years on: Big events in the last century
In what year (Bonus point for)
- Did England win the World Cup for Soccer?
- Did a king abdicate? (Who?)
- Did the USA drop the first atomic bomb?
- The first man walk on the moon? (Who?)
- Was President Kennedy assassinated?
- Did the Beatles release their first disc? (Which?)
- Was the Armistice signed for the First World War?
- Did President Nixon resign?
- Was Everest first climbed? (Who?)
- Queen Elizabeth II crowned?
- Did the ‘Queen Mother’ die?
- Was the General Strike?
- Was Sputnik launched?
- Was the Indian Ocean tsunami?
- Was Pearl Harbour bombed?
- Was VE day?
- Did the Berlin Wall fall?
- Were The Twin Towers destroyed
- Did India gain independence?
- Fidel Castro become President of Cuba?
- Did Britain first win the Eurovision song contes (Who?)
- Did Lindberg fly the Atlantic?
- Amelia Earhart fly the Atlantic?
- Was the first man in space?
- The first 4-minute mile run? (Who?)
And to help you out, here are the dates in numerical order:
- 1918
- 1926
- 1927
- 1932
- 1936
- 1941
- 1942
- 1945
- 1945
- 1947
- 1953
- 1953
- 1957
- 1959
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1966
- 1967
- 1969
- 1974
- 1989
- 2001
- 2002
- 2004