1. In what year was Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III, after marrying his second wife Anne Boleyn?

 
 
 
 
 

2. The Great Wall of China was mainly built to protect against which group?

 
 
 
 
 

3. In which year was Suffragette campaigner Emily Davison killed when she threw herself under the King’s horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby?

 
 
 
 
 

4. In what year did USA President Richard Nixon become the first American President to resign from office, following the Watergate scandal?

 
 
 
 
 

5. In what year were notorious bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow shot dead by Texas Rangers in Louisiana?

 
 
 
 
 

6. In which year was Gibraltar ceded to Britain following the Treaty of Utrecht?

 
 
 
 
 

7. In what year did Captain James Cook lead the first Europeans to set foot in Australia?

 
 
 
 
 

8. In which year did the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise after leaving Zeebrugge with its bow door open, killing 193 people?

 
 
 
 
 

9. In what year was the first Congress of the United States held in New York?

 
 
 
 
 

10. In what year did all 155 people have a miracle escape from a US Airways flight when it ditched on The Hudson River, New York City after hitting a flock of birds?

 
 
 
 
 

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