Quarantine Quizzes: History round 4

QUARANTINE QUIZZES History round 4: WW1

1. Whose assassination on 28 June 1914 sparked the war? ​Archduke Franz Ferdinand

2. Who was the Secretary of State for War during World War One, whose image featured on army recruitment posters? ​Lord Kitchener

3. Mata Hari was a Dutch exotic dancer who was executed for what crime during World War One? ​Being a spy for the Germans

4. By what other name is World War One sometimes known?​ ​The Great War / The war to end all wars

5. At the end of the war, what organisation was formed by US president Woodrow Wilson to prevent future wars? ​The League of Nations

6. The play (and later TV series) My Boy Jack is about which famous author’s son, who died in World War One? ​Rudyard Kipling

7. What type of field-weapon was used for the first time during the battle of The Somme? ​Tanks - they were first used in 1916

8. The War might have stretched out longer had it not been for which event that took place in 1917 in Russia? ​The Revolution that deposed the Romanovs from power 9. Arti​sts Paul Cummins and Tom Piper created an installation titled Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red​ in 2014, which saw the moat around the Tower of London gradually filled with what? ​Ceramic poppies. There were almost 900,000 poppies - each represented a British fatality during the war.

10. What was the name of Stephen Fry’s Character in the BBC series Blackadder Goes Forth? (For an extra point, what was the name of his pigeon) ​General Melchett / Speckled Jim