1. In what year was Russia’s Vladimir Putin first elected President of The Russian Federation?

2. In what year did a magnitude 9 earthquake strike Japan’s north-east coast, resulting in a tsunami  which killed almost 20,000 people?

3. In which year did England’s King Henry VIII marry his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves?

4. In what year did first industrial moving assembly line begin operation – at the Ford Motor Company?

5. In what decade was the internet created?

6. In what year was the Hungarian uprising against Soviet influence?

7. In what period of history did major human migrations out of Africa accelerate?

8. In which year did a British Midland 737 crash into an embankment on the M1 Motorway near Kegworth, killing 47 people

9. In what year did an armed group of 6 terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London, leading to a 6-day siege, broken only when the SAS stormed the building after landing by helicopter on its roof?

10. Future English King Charles I was born in 1600.  But in which country?