They filled the newspapers and TV screens in their day, but have you forgotten all about them in the meantime? Here’s a chance to get some of those long neglected brain cells cranked up – with apologies to you youngsters for whom all this is ancient history!
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Question of
Who caused uproar in the United Kingdom in 1968 when he talked about “rivers of blood” in the context of immigration policy?
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Harold Wilson
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Edward Heath
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Enoch Powell
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Norman Tebbitt
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Question of
How did President Sadat of Egypt die in 1981?
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In a plane crash
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Assassinated while watching a military parade
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A heart attack
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After a fall from a balcony
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Question of
When Nikita Kruschev banged his shoe on the table during a speech at the United Nations in 1960 given by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, what did the latter reply?
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What size do you take?
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What are you going to do with other one?
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That’s very kind of you, but I don’t think anyone has actually gone to sleep yet.
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Could I have that translated, please?
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Question of
Which communist leader, who died in 1969, once worked as a pastry chef in London?
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Ho Chi Minh
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Walter Ulbricht
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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Mao Zedong
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Question of
Who replaced Ehud Barak as prime minister of Israel in 2001?
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Shimon Peres
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Ariel Sharon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Ehud Olmert
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Question of
Who was the Taoiseach of Ireland immediately prior to Bertie Ahern (he held office from 1994 to 1997)?
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Enda Kenny
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Charles Haughey
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Albert Reynolds
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John Bruton
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Question of
Who was the United Kingdom’s first Labour Prime Minister?
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Ramsay Macdonald
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Harold Wilson
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Clement Attlee
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James Callaghan
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Question of
Who was the father of Svetlana Alliluyeva, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1967?
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Joseph Stalin
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Boris Yeltsin
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Michael Gorbachev
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Question of
Who was British Prime Minister during the Suez crisis in 1956?
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Harold Macmillan
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Anthony Eden
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Clement Attlee
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Alec Douglas-Home
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Question of
Who became President of France after the resignation of Charles de Gaulle in 1969?
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Jacques Chirac
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Francois Mitterand
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Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
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Georges Pompidou
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7 out of 10. And I got the toad correct. ? Great quiz! ?
i love putin and i got 5
got 6 out of 10 right!
it was a difficult one
not familiar with history..got 2
4/10. Could have done much better!
You got 5 out of 10 right!
Not so bad
Six out of ten on this quiz that was very good to take.
5 out of 10 correct, learned a lot!
7 out of 10 – that was rather tough!
Ummmm I got 1/10, not my best subject, gotta study more! 🙂
John, all I can say is I hope you don’t set examination papers for students. The poor souls won’t stand a chance 🙂 No offence meant but your quizzes are very tough.
When I was researching these questions there were only three that would have tripped me up if I had been answering rather than asking them – so I will only admit to “quite tough”, as opposed to “very”!
You got 8 out of 10 right.
Well, there are some questions that I do not know at all, but it’s a fun challenge!
I got 6 out of 10 right!
That’s quite good – some of those were not so easy!