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• Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, USA (6.50)
• Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy (6.00)
• Edward Teach was Blackbeard, the infamous pirate (7.86)
• Hugo Boss designed the SS uniform (7.29)
• Hundred Years' War lasted 116 years (7.50)
• In the UK, there are 12 members of a jury (7.20)
• In the War of the Roses, the House of Lancaster's badge was a red rose and York's a white one (8.00)
• In World War I, Britain (& others) fought against the Central Powers which comprised Germany, Austro-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) & Bulgaria (8.75)
• King Canute, ruler of England from 1016 to 1035, was Danish (8.00)
• King James I was married to Anne of Denmark (8.00)
• Last year's Royal Wedding had a 29 theme going on... (8.00)
• Mary Celeste is known as the Ghost Ship as there was no-one aboard when it was discovered (5.14)
• Moluccas (in Indonesia) used to be known as the Spice Islands (7.17)
• Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica (8.75)
• Napoleon was exiled to the island of Elba (8.14)
• Nelson lost his right arm and the sight in his right eye (7.00)
• Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years (7.67)
• Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island off Cape Town, South Africa (8.00)
• Roman Emperors (order of first 5) - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius & Nero (8.00)
• State Security in Soviet Russia was called the KGB (5.80)
• The 13 Original Colonies (now States) of the USA: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, North & South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and New Hampshire (8.67)
• The Battle of Marathon was between Greece and Persia (8.00)
• The Battle of Thermopylae was between Sparta & Persia (8.33)
• The Bayeux Tapestry is a 70 m cloth depicting the events of the Norman Conquest (6.67)
• The captain of the Titanic was Edward John Smith (7.40)
• The English Civil War was fought between Charles I and Oliver Cromwell (8.00)
• The Gettysburg Address (just over 2 mins) was given by American President Abraham Lincoln (8.00)
• The House of Lancaster (Red) defeated the House of York (White) in the War Of The Roses (8.00)
• The last battle in the English Civil War (1642/51) was Worcester (7.80)
• The shortest war on record was the Anglo-Zanzibar War in 1896 which lasted 38 minutes (5.00)
• Westminster Abbey was reconstructed by Henry III (7.25)
• Who was in charge of the Cavaliers and Roundheads? (7.00)

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