History by Letter 'K' (Multiple Choice)

1. Who needed an Equus ferus caballus so desperately (according to William Shakespeare) that he was willing to make the provider of the item very comfortable in terms of real estate ownership?

2. When the Shintos dropped some ordnance on Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, Australia... in 1942... they also gave this town a bit of a shake up.

3. Huey Long was a controversial and corrupt governor of Louisiana and later a senator for that state. Another bullet stopper. His bodyguards shot his assassin dead. An autopsy revealed that the assassin had stopped 60 bullets. What was Long's nickname?

4. An evil-looking item of cutlery used by Gurkhas. Its curved blade makes it an ideal throat-slitter (Was that the designer's intention?).

5. This jingoistic, sword-rattling, imperialistic "God is an Englishman" poet suddenly did not have too much to say and stopped whistling "Rule Brittania"... when his son was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915.

6. British field marshal. Had a panic attack just before the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 against the Mahdists. Embarrassed his staff no end. When his officers and troops had sorted out the natives he claimed all the credit. Implemented the concentration camp system in the Second Boer War which resulted in the deaths of 27,927 Boers (mostly women and children) and 14,154 native Africans. He gurgled to death with his main male lover when the cruiser HMS Hampshire hit a German mine off Orkney. Sad. Had an impressive collection of looted ancient relics.

7. Won the1973 Nobel Peace Prize for bombing the sheet out of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

8. Australian bushranger (1854-1880). Stringybark Creek. Jerilderie. Glenrowan. Armour. Hanged in Melbourne.

9. Russian city that was fought over voraciously by the Red Army and Wehrmacht in WWII. Captured, recaptured, captured, recaptured... it is now in the Ukraine. Or is it?

10. Birthplace of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt is heavily associated with the city. Once part of Prussia, then East Prussia, now renamed and the capital of Kaliningrad Oblast.