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Giant Great Britain 20th Century Quiz - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 2,272 times
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- The average score is 51 of 100
Answer Stats
| Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1981 | This person takes the title of Princess of Wales after marrying Prince Charles. | Diana Spencer | 91%
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| 1990 | Rowan Atkinson performs the TV debut of this comedy character. | Mr Bean | 91%
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| 1997 | Scientists in Edinburgh announce the birth of a cloned sheep with this name. | Dolly | 90%
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| 1982 | Britain goes to war against Argentina to recapture these islands in the South Atlantic. | Falkland Islands | 90%
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| 1991 | This singer dies, soon after announcing that he is suffering from AIDS. | Freddie Mercury | 89%
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| 1983 | Use of this safety device becomes mandatory for drivers and front seat passengers. | Seatbelt | 87%
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| 1952 | Following the death of George VI this person becomes Monarch. | Elizabeth II | 84%
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| 1953 | This former wartime leader wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. | Winston Churchill | 83%
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| 1955 | This book of extremes is published for the first time. | {Guinness} Book of Records | 82%
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| 1978 | The first delivery of this liquid comes ashore in Shetland via the Brent pipeline. | North Sea {oil} | 82%
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| 1929 | This period of national economic downturn begins in Britain. | Great {Depression} | 80%
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| 1901 | This long-serving Monarch dies after a reign of over 63 years. | Queen Victoria | 78%
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| 1911 | This iconic liner is launched in a Belfast shipyard. | RMS Titanic | 78%
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| 1960 | This Rock and Roll icon stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport after doing military service in West Germany, the only time he ever visited the UK. | Elvis Presley | 77%
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| 1922 | This Scottish born inventor of the telephone dies in Nova Scotia. | Alexander Graham Bell | 76%
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| 1934 | The 'surgeon's photograph' of this mysterious creature is published in the Daily Mail. | {Loch} {Ness} Monster | 75%
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| 1926 | This bear makes his public debut in a book by A.A. Milne. | Winnie the Pooh | 74%
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| 1998 | This iconic statue by Antony Gormley, near the A1 road in Gateshead, is completed. | {Angel} of the North | 73%
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| 1940 | Operation Dynamo saw over 330,000 allied troops evacuated from this French coastal town. | Dunkirk | 73%
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| 1959 | This Mediterranean country becomes independent from the UK. | Cyprus | 72%
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| 1985 | This popular TV soap is launched on BBC1. | Eastenders | 72%
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| 1900 | This political party is formed, with Ramsay MacDonald as its first secretary. | Labour Party | 72%
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| 1938 | This Prime Minister returns from Munich declaring he's achieved “Peace for our time”. | Neville Chamberlain | 72%
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| 1988 | Panam flight 103 crashes on this Scottish town killing 270 people. | Lockerbie | 71%
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| 1963 | This group tops the singles chart for the first time with 'From Me to You'. | The Beatles | 71%
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| 1950 | The first book is published in a series chronicling the tales of this magical land. | Narnia | 70%
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| 1908 | London holds this sporting competition for the first time. | Olympic Games | 70%
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| 1996 | Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave win Britain's only gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, competing in this sport. | Rowing | 70%
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| 1945 | On 8th May this celebration marks the formal surrender of Nazi Germany. | VE Day | 69%
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| 1933 | Two British aircraft make the first ever flight over this mountain. | Mount Everest | 68%
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| 1984 | A major fire in the roof of this large cathedral causes extensive damage. | {York} Minster | 67%
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| 1976 | These confrontations over fishing rights between Britain and Iceland come to an end. | {Cod} Wars | 66%
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| 1971 | The BBC begins broadcasts for this distance learning educational establishment. | {Open} University | 65%
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| 1918 | The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service combine to form this military unit. | Royal Air Force | 65%
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| 1987 | Christie's sells an example of this Vincent van Gogh painting for £24,750,000. | Sunflowers | 63%
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| 1935 | This future portrayer of nanny Mary Poppins is born in Surrey. | Julie Andrews | 61%
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| 1909 | F.W. Woolworth & Co. opens its first UK high street store in this northern city. | Liverpool | 61%
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| 1964 | This popular weekly music programme airs on BBC TV for the first time. | Top of the Pops | 61%
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| 1994 | Europe's first inverted roller coaster, Nemesis, opens at this Staffordshire theme park. | Alton Towers | 60%
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| 1902 | Newton Heath Football Club changes its identity to this prestigious name. | Manchester United | 59%
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| 1999 | Forming the new national sports stadium for Wales, this venue opens in Cardiff. | Millennium Stadium | 59%
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| 1923 | A shake up of the organisation of this mode of transportation, sees the grouping of many small companies into four major ones. | Railways | 59%
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| 1904 | Two men meet for the first time in Manchester and go on to agree production of this luxury motor car brand. | Rolls-Royce | 59%
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| 1907 | Robert Baden-Powell leads the first camp on Brownsea Island for this youth movement. | Scouting | 59%
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| 1975 | Brian Clough is appointed manager of this struggling Second Division football team and leads them to great sucess over the next 18 years. | Nottingham Forest | 56%
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| 1917 | The last major raid on Britain by this type of airship occurs during October when eleven are launched against the country. | Zeppelin | 56%
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| 1910 | Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off from Cardiff on a fateful voyage to this distant place. | Antarctica | 55%
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| 1974 | Welsh man Ray Reardon wins his third World Championship title in this sport. | Snooker | 55%
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| 1954 | This person becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile. | Roger Bannister | 54%
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| 1962 | A new cathedral is consecrated in this Midlands city to replace the one destroyed in WW2. | Coventry | 52%
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| 1924 | The Meteorological Office issues its first "Weather Shipping" radio broadcast as an aid to sailors. It later became known by this name and is still transmitted to this day. | Shipping {Forecast} | 52%
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| 1993 | This author dies, having become best known for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'. | William Golding | 52%
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| 1912 | Britain's first national strike by this group of workers begins in February. | Coal miners | 51%
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| 1916 | This Liberal politician forms a coalition government and becomes Prime Minister. | David Lloyd George | 51%
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| 1936 | The paper, 'On Computable Numbers', is formally presented by this mathematician. | Alan Turing | 50%
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| 1905 | This Birmingham based football team beat Newcastle United, 2-0, in the F.A. Cup Final. | Aston Villa | 50%
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| 1932 | This dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley is first published. | Brave New World | 49%
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| 1956 | Devon Loch, ridden by Dick Francis, slips and falls within 40 yards of 'certain' victory in this prestigious horse race. | Grand National | 49%
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| 1989 | Golfer Nick Faldo becomes the first English winner of this prestigious competition. | US Masters | 49%
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| 1931 | This guidance and set of rules for road users is published for the first time. | Highway Code | 48%
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| 1944 | The first attack by this German rocket powered missile is launched against London. | V-2 | 46%
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| 1957 | This musical venue opens in Liverpool as a jazz club. | {Cavern} Club | 43%
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| 1966 | This football player scores a hat trick to help England win the World Cup final. | Geoff Hurst | 41%
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| 1992 | This publication, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, finishes after over 150 years. | Punch | 40%
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| 1961 | This coin, used since the thirteenth century, ceases to be legal tender in Britain. | Farthing | 39%
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| 1977 | This English tennis player wins the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon. | Virginia Wade | 39%
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| 1939 | The first of these cheap shelters, issued to householders as protection against air-raids, is built in a garden in Islington in preparation for the expected war. | {Anderson} shelter | 37%
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| 1946 | BBC radio begins broadcasting this long running topical series by Alistair Cooke. | {Letter} from America | 37%
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| 1941 | This leading Nazi party member parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission. | Rudolf Hess | 36%
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| 1949 | This Act comes into effect which requires men aged 18–26 in England, Scotland and Wales to serve full-time in the armed forces for 18 months during peacetime. | National Service | 35%
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| 1937 | The first issue of this children's comic is published by D.C. Thomson of Dundee. | The Dandy | 35%
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| 1948 | Stoke Mandeville Games are held for the first time, the predecessor of this 4 yearly event. | {Paralympic} Games | 34%
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| 1980 | This pirate radio station ceases transmission when the ship on which it is based runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary. | Radio {Caroline} | 34%
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| 1903 | This future comedian, actor, singer and dancer is born in London. He went on to be an American icon and lived to be 100. | Bob Hope | 33%
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| 1995 | 'Rogue trader' Nick Leeson is jailed in Singapore for fraud related to the financial collapse of this London based Merchant Bank. | Barings | 31%
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| 1925 | This Luton carmaker is purchased by General Motors but retains its identity. | Vauxhall | 31%
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| 1951 | This celebration is staged to lift spirits and sustain post-war confidence. | {Festival} of Britain | 30%
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| 1970 | The 120-year-old Britannia Bridge over this North Wales waterway is destroyed by fire. | {Menai} Strait | 30%
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| 1967 | The giant QE2 ocean liner is launched at John Brown & Company's yard on this river. | Clyde | 29%
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| 1921 | This explorer sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica. | Ernest Shackleton | 29%
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| 1928 | The first full version of this language resource is published in 10 bound volumes. | Oxford English Dictionary | 29%
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| 1906 | The first section of this line opens from Baker Street station on the London Underground system. | Bakerloo | 28%
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| 1947 | The film 'Hue and Cry' is released by this London studio, the first in a series of comedies. | Ealing | 27%
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| 1969 | Best known for this book, the naturalist Gavin Maxwell dies at the age of 55. | Ring of {Bright} Water | 27%
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| 1965 | This film is released - the fourth in the James Bond series. | Thunderball | 27%
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| 1915 | This novel by John Buchan first appears in print. Featuring the adventuring hero Richard Hannay, it is later made into numerous radio and film adaptations. | The Thirty-Nine Steps | 26%
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| 1919 | After WW1 the captured German fleet is scuttled in this bay in the Orkney Islands. | Scapa Flow | 24%
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| 1927 | At Pendine Sands in Wales this driver sets a world land speed record of 174.88 mph. | Malcolm Campbell | 22%
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| 1958 | Britain's first motorway opens, bypassing this town in the north-west of England. | Preston | 22%
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| 1930 | This person becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. | Amy Johnson | 17%
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| 1914 | This large seaplane carrier is commissioned, the second ship to carry this famous name. | HMS Ark Royal | 17%
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| 1968 | On the run for killing Martin Luther King Jnr., this person is arrested at Heathrow Airport. | James Earl Ray | 17%
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| 1913 | This suffragette dies after a lifetime of fighting for votes for women. | Emily Davison | 16%
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| 1943 | This future Doctor Who actor is born in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute. | Sylvester McCoy | 16%
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| 1979 | A Force 10 storm in the Irish Sea hits this major biennual yacht race, killing 15 and causing 24 boats to be abandoned, of which five were sunk. | Fastnet | 15%
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| 1972 | This credit card brand is launched to compete with the established Barclaycard. | Access | 14%
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| 1942 | The city of Bath is blitzed, one of a number of German air raids named for this series of tourist guide books which were used to identify targets for bombing. | Baedeker | 13%
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| 1920 | This author, whose novels feature the protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, is one of the first women to be awarded a degree at the University of Oxford. | Dorothy L. Sayers | 13%
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| 1973 | Robert Watson-Watt, a pioneer of this technology dies in Inverness at the age of 81. | Radar | 11%
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| 1986 | These islands in the Outer Hebrides become Scotland's first World Heritage Site. | St. Kilda | 11%
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