“My father is deceas’d! Come, Gaveston/And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend”. These are the opening lines of a play by whom?
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • William Shakespeare
  • Ben Jonson
  • Edmund Spenser
“I would rather have four of my teeth pulled out than deal with that man again,” said Hitler of whom?
  • Francisco Franco
  • Neville Chamberlain
  • Sir Oswald Mosley
  • The Duke of Windsor
Who coined the term “eugenics”, meaning the study of ways in which the physical and mental quality of people could be improved by selective breeding?
  • Charles Darwin
  • Francis Galton
  • GK Chesterton
  • Gregor Mendel
Who was protected by an elite military unit usually known in English as the ‘Varangian Guard’?
  • The Byzantine emperor
  • Napoleon
  • The king of Sweden
  • The Aztec emperor
Before he retired at the age of 49 to paint full-time, what was the occupation of Henri Rousseau (1844–1910)?
  • Customs officer
  • Waiter
  • Postman
  • Soldier
Jim Kardach is known for developing a system that allows mobile phones to wirelessly communicate with computers. In 1997 he named it after a real historical figure who featured in the novel he was reading at the time, Frans Bengtsson’s ‘The Long Ships’. Name the historical figure:
  • Harald ‘Blåtand’ Gormsson
  • Haakon Haraldsson
  • Eric Bloodaxe
  • Sweyn Forkbeard
Below are three Republican presidents of the United States and one Democrat. Which one is the Democrat?
  • Harry Truman
  • Richard Nixon
  • Gerald Ford
  • Dwight Eisenhower
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