1. In what year did scientists announce that skeletal remains discovered under a car park in Leicester, UK, belonged to 15th Century king Richard III?

2. Edward I of England had just conquered the Welsh and was on his way to do battle with the Scots under Robert the Bruce.  But he died on the journey to Scotland.  What year was that?

3. In what year did President William Henry Harrison become the first ever USA President to die in office?

4. In what year was William Tell reputed to have shot an apple off his son’s head?

5. King Louis XIV, France’s longest-reigning monarch, died in 1715, after how many years on the throne?

6. In what year did British Navy wives protest at a decision to allow Wrens – female service personnel – to go to sea?

7. George IV of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, reigned from 1820 to 1830, and served as Prince Regent for his father, the insane George III, from 1811.  But when was he born?

8. In what year did Josef Tito of Yugoslavia become the first Communist Head of State to visit Britain?

9. In what decade was the internet created?

10. Which Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sea?