Category

1800s 16 questions.

1800-1899

Pub quiz question 7620 by pjh

Question: Q: What took place at the Oval on 16 March 1872?
Answer: A: First FA Cup final.
Categories: Sports (7) Football (3) 1800s (7)

Pub quiz question 8052 by pjh

Question: Q: Which Delacroix painting celebrated 1830's July Revolution?
Answer: A: Liberty Leading The People.
Categories: Art (9) 1800s (8)

Pub quiz question 7543 by pjh

Question: Q: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose “jailer”?
Answer: A: Napoleon
Notes: *: On St Helena
Categories: People (6) War (6) 1800s (6)

Pub quiz question 7559 by pjh

Question: Q: Which emperor is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire?
Answer: A: Napoleon III of France, in St. Michael’s Abbey
Notes: *: 1852 to 1870
Categories: People (7) Politics (7) 1800s (7) Death (7)

Pub quiz question 7573 by pjh

Question: Q: What festive feature was denounced as a “social evil” in an 1877 letter to the Times?
Answer: A: Christmas Cards
Categories: Christmas (4) 1800s (6)

Pub quiz question 8073 by pjh

Question: Q: Who was the target of the 1825 Decembrist uprising?
Answer: A: Nicholas I of Russia.
Categories: 1800s (7) Politics (6)

Pub quiz question 8101 by pjh

Question: Q: The 1814 Treaty of Ghent ended a war between which states?
Answer: A: Britain and the US.
Categories: 1800s (8) War (8) Politics (8)

Pub quiz question 7589 by pjh

Question: Q: What brand started in 1884 at Kirkgate Market, Leeds?
Answer: A: Marks & Spencer
Categories: 1800s (7) Business (7)

Pub quiz question 8460 by pjh

Question: Q: In what year was the first-ever Wimbledon Championship held?
Answer: A: 1877
Categories: Sports (6) 1800s (4)

Pub quiz question 7249 by pjh2

Question: Q: What woman's name was the last word spoken by Napoleon?
Answer: A: Josephine
Notes: *: Died: May 5, 1821
Categories: History (1) 1800s (1)