Category

1800s 16 questions.
1800-1899
Pub quiz question 7590 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who is the only US president to have killed someone in a duel?
  2. Answer: A: Andrew Jackson
  3. Notes: *: 1806
  4. Categories: 1800s (7) America (7) Politics (7)
Pub quiz question 7254 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What was the longest, widest, tallest passenger ship ever built when she was launched in 1882?
  2. Answer: A: RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2)
  3. Categories: 1800s (2) History (2) Travel (2)
Pub quiz question 7253 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which ship was found abandoned between Portugal and the Azores in 1882?
  2. Answer: A: Mary Celeste
  3. Categories: History (4) Travel (4) 1800s (4)
Pub quiz question 7252 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What is the only remaining classic clipper, which can be seen at Greenwich?
  2. Answer: A: Cutty Sark
  3. Categories: Travel (5) History (5) 1800s (5)
Pub quiz question 7620 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What took place at the Oval on 16 March 1872?
  2. Answer: A: First FA Cup final.
  3. Categories: Sports (7) Football (3) 1800s (7)
Pub quiz question 8052 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which Delacroix painting celebrated 1830's July Revolution?
  2. Answer: A: Liberty Leading The People.
  3. Categories: Art (9) 1800s (8)
Pub quiz question 7543 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Sir Hudson Lowe was whose “jailer”?
  2. Answer: A: Napoleon
  3. Notes: *: On St Helena
  4. Categories: People (6) War (6) 1800s (6)
Pub quiz question 7559 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which emperor is buried in Farnborough, Hampshire?
  2. Answer: A: Napoleon III of France, in St. Michael’s Abbey
  3. Notes: *: 1852 to 1870
  4. Categories: People (7) Politics (7) 1800s (7) Death (7)
Pub quiz question 7573 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What festive feature was denounced as a “social evil” in an 1877 letter to the Times?
  2. Answer: A: Christmas Cards
  3. Categories: Christmas (4) 1800s (6)
Pub quiz question 8073 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who was the target of the 1825 Decembrist uprising?
  2. Answer: A: Nicholas I of Russia.
  3. Categories: 1800s (7) Politics (6)