Question: In which city does the Council of Europe sit?
Answer: Strasbourg

Question: In which year were East and West Germany unified?
Answer: 1990

Question: On which of the Greek islands did Bacchus find Ariadne, according to legend?
Answer: Naxos

Question: Which country's parliament is called the Storting?
Answer: Norway

Question: Which German city is known as "Aix-la-Chapelle in French?
Answer: Aachen

Question: What emblem appears on the flag of Albania?
Answer: Eagle

Question: Where did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in 1945 to plan the final defeat of Germany?
Answer: Yalta

Question: Which country first tried unsuccessfully to build the Panama Canal?
Answer: France

Question: Which family ruled Florence for three centuries from 1434?
Answer: Medici

Question: Who were the Celtic-speaking peoples living in France and Belgium during Roman times?
Answer: Gauls

Question: Which king of England had a mother and a son who were both beheaded?
Answer: James I

Question: Which battle of 1746 ended the Jacobite revolution?
Answer: Culloden

Question: What Soviet "man of steel" was educated for the priesthood but was expelled from the seminary?
Answer: Joseph Stalin

Question: What country sold land including the present-day states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma to the USA in 1803?
Answer: France

Question: Which British monarch married Anne of Denmark?
Answer: James I

Question: In which year did Dublin's Easter Rising take place?
Answer: 1816

Question: Which US president was shot five days after the end of the American Civil War?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln

Question: """What was the name of the Austrian-born dictator who succeeded Hindenburg as Germany's head of state?"
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: Who was the black educationist who was born a slave but became a leader in the search for civil rights in the early 1900s?
Answer: Booker T. Washington

Question: Which French revolutionary was nicknamed "the Incorruptible"?
Answer: Robespierre

Question: Where did Florence Nightingale establish a hospital to treat casualties of the Crimean War?
Answer: Scutari

Question: Which rebellion was effectively ended by the Battle of Culloden?
Answer: Jacobite rebellion

Question: Who was the first president of independent Kenya?|
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta

Question: Which country was ruled by the Romanov dynasty 1613-1917?
Answer: Russia

Question: Which country's liberalization program was halted by the invasion of 600,000 Soviet troops in 1968?
Answer: Czechoslovakia

Question: Which Axis Power changed sides during World War II, declaring war on Germany in October 1943?
Answer: Italy

Question: Who was the first democratically elected Marxist head of state?
Answer: Salvador Allende

Question: What was the name of the basalt slab that became the key for deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Answer: Rosetta Stone

Question: What title did Charlemagne, already king of the Franks, acquire in 800?
Answer: Holy Roman Emperor

Question: In which industrial process was the inventor Joseph Arkwright responsible for an important breakthrough in 1768?
Answer: Spinning Cotton

Question: What is the name of the British political regime 1649-60 established by Oliver Cromwell?
Answer: The Commonwealth

Question: Which 17th-century king of Sweden was known as the "Lion of the North"?
Answer: Gustavus Adolphus

Question: Who are the only two English sovereigns from whom Prince Charles is not descended?
Answer: Charles II and James II

Question: Who succeeded the Roman emperor, Trajan?
Answer: Hadrian

Question: Who was the admiral of the French fleet defeated by Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Answer: Pierre de Villeneuve

Question: Which royal house consisted of Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI?
Answer: House of Lancaster

Question: In which Indian city did British troops open fire without warning on a crowd of 10,000 in 1919?
Answer: Amritsar

Question: In which war was the Battle of Ramillies?
Answer: War of Spanish Succession

Question: Which sultan of Egypt, who precipitated the third Crusade, subsequently made peace with Richard I?
Answer: Saladin

Question: In which year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
Answer: 1941

Question: In which naval battle did Rome decisively defeat the forces of Antony and Cleopatra?
Answer: Battle of Actium

Question: Which new policy in 1958 was an attempt to achieve "true communism" in China?
Answer: The Great Leap Forward

Question: Who was appointed successor to Hitler in 1939 but expelled from the Nazi party six years later?
Answer: Hermann Goering

Question: What was ceded to Britain in 1713 as part of the settlement of the War of Spanish Succession?
Answer: Gibraltar

Question: Who was the queen of the British king, Charles I?
Answer: Henrietta (Maria)

Question: Where did George Washington's army endure the winter of 1777-78?
Answer: Valley Forge

Question: Whom did Charles V confront at the Diet of Worms in 1521?
Answer: Marin Luther

Question: What was the name of the Libyan king deposed by Colonel Kaddafi in 1969?
Answer: King Idris

Question: Which US president ended his country's participation in the Vietnam War?
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What was the first considerable engagement in the American Revolution?
Answer: Bunker Hill

Question: Who succeeded Henry I as king of England in 1135?
Answer: Stephan

Question: In which war was the Battle of Shiloh?
Answer: American Civil War

Question: Which treaty after World War I established the League of Nations?
Answer: Versailles

Question: What is the official residence of the president of France?
Answer: Elysee Palace

Question: Who set out his political ideas in Mein Kampf?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: Who preceded Ronald Reagan as American president?
Answer: Jimmy Carter

Question: In which year was Ulster incorporated into the UK, under the Home Rule Act?
Answer: 1920

Question: Of what electoral system are "single transferable vote" and "party list" forms?
Answer: Proportional representation

Question: Who was the USA's vice president in 1990?
Answer: Dan Quayle

Question: Which prime minister took Britain into the European Community in 1973?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: How did the suffragette Emily Davison meet her death in 1913?
Answer: She threw herself under the king's horse in the Derby

Question: What was enforced by Parliament in 1379 and was the trigger that caused the Peasants' Revolt?
Answer: Poll tax

Question: In which country did Pol Pot lead the feared Khmer Rouge?
Answer: Cambodia

Question: How often are American presidential elections held?
Answer: Every four years

Question: Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime minister from then until 1963?
Answer: Ben-Gurion

Question: Who did Margaret Thatcher succeed as leader of the Conservative Party?
Answer: Edward Heath

Question: Who said 'A week is a long time in politics'?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: Which Elizabethan politician, philosopher and essayist was fined L40,000 for taking bribes?
Answer: Frances Bacon

Question: Who succeeded Clement Attlee as Labour Party leader in 1955?
Answer: Hugh Gaitskell

Question: Whose book Sexual Politics was a landmark in feminist thinking?
Answer: Kate Millett

Question: Which American economist is the foremost advocate of monetarism?
Answer: Milton Friedman

Question: In what year did the Representation of the People Act give the vote to all women over 21?
Answer: 1928

Question: Who was Italy's Fascist lender from 1925-43?
Answer: Mussolini

Question: Which British company was effectively the ruler of much of India until the India Act of 1858?
Answer: East India Company

Question: What offence was former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega tried for in the USA?
Answer: Drug Trafficking

Question: Which are the two main political parties in the USA?
Answer: Democrats and Republicans

Question: Which party leader was a Royal Marine commando?
Answer: Paddy Ashdown