Answers to the Quiz - 100 years on
In what year
- Did England win the World Cup for Soccer? 1966
- Did a king abdicate? 1936, Edward VIII
- Did the USA drop the first atomic bomb?1936 1945
- The first man walk on the moon? 1969, N Armstrong
- Was President Kennedy assassinated? 1963
- Did the Beatles release their first single? 1962, ‘Love love me do’
- Was the Armistice signed for the First World War? 1918
- Did President Nixon resign? 1974
- Was Everest first climbed? 1953, Hillary, Tenzing
- Was Queen Elizabeth II crowned? 1953
- Did the ‘Queen Mother’ die? 2002
- Was the General Strike? 1926
- Was Sputnik launched? 1957
- Was the Indian Ocean tsunami? 2004
- Was Pearl Harbour bombed? 1941
- Was VE day? 1945
- Did the Berlin Wall fall? 1989
- Were The Twin Towers destroyed 2001
- Did India gain independence? 1947
- Fidel Castro become PM of Cuba? 1959
- Did Britain first win the Eurovision song contest 1967, Sandy Shaw with ‘Puppet on a string’
- Did Lindberg fly the Atlantic? 1927
- Amelia Earhart fly the Atlantic? 1932
- Was the first man in space? 1961, Gagarin
- The first 4-minute mile run? 1954, Roger Bannister