[history quiz] ten questions to test your memory

1] What was Operation Sea Lion in the Second World War?
The invasion of Britain

... and Operation Dynamo?
The evacuation at Dunkirk

2] What was the name of Haile Selassie before he was crowned in 1930?
Ras Tafari

3] Which American City is named after a British Prime Minister?
Pittsburgh

4] Which Republic exists in France since 1958?
The Fifth Republic

5] Which two other countries joined the EEC at the same time as Ireland?
Denmark and the UK

6] Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France?
Georges Pompidou

7] Who was the last British Prime Minister not to have a wife?
Margaret Thatcher

8] The Roman Appian Way went from Rome to where?
Brindisi (Brundusium)

9] Enola Gay was the name of the bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, but what was the name of the bomber that dropped it on Nagasaki?
Bock's Car

10] Eboracum is the roman name for which city?
York