Firstly, this isn’t a quiz about the Bible’s “Eve”. Rather, it’s a quiz about the ‘first woman’ that achieved a great historic feat, or in some cases, fate. Why take our fun trivia quiz to find out how much you know of great or infamous “first” women from history? Take the “First Woman” achievers quiz!…
Lasting more than a millennium and once stretching more than 1.7 million square miles, the Roman Empire obviously rates as one of the greatest civilisations of all time. Reg (John Cleese) in The Life Of Brian hilariously asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?”. The uproarious replies listed, “Sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public…
Did you know the word ”Bible” comes from the Greek word “biblios”, meaning scrolls? Most of us know that it’s the world’s best-selling book with an estimated 5-7 Billion being sold to date. What you probably don’t won’t know is that there are 58 different English language versions of the Bible alone. However, almost all…
Did you know ‘John’ is derived from the old Hebrew biblical name of Yohanan, which means ‘graced by god’. Yohanan was then translated to Greek as Ioannes, later in Latin as Johannes, which then became John in English. It’s one of the most popular names in the Western World, where its various linguistic forms include,…
The title of ”general” is used in most countries to denote the highest rank of a military officer that nominally commands an army in the field. Are you a budding military historian or already a big fan of military history? What do you know about those individuals who’ve risen through the ranks to become generals?…
A Famous Ships Quiz Ships are one of the oldest forms of transport known to man. It’s thought the first sea-going ships were launched some 5,000 years ago. In antiquity, they were used by almost all advanced civilisations for purposes of invasion, exploration, adventure and transportation of goods. In more recent history they have been…
The native Indian settlement of the North American continent began in tens of thousands of years ago. Historically, there were hundreds of different tribes, peoples and clans, who were all led by a tribal chief. The subsequent contact with European settlers that began in the early 16th century led to the American-Indian Wars that lasted…
Who were the Gunfighters? We have all seen the classic movies about Gunfighters of the Old Wild West. However, how much do you really know about them? The term ”gunfighters” refers to the outlaws and lawmen who gained fame and notoriety as killers during the 19th-century American Wild West. Many of these sharpshooters have been…
Did you know that 15 February 2021 was the 50th anniversary of the introduction of a decimal currency system in the UK? It’s likely you’ll be aged 60 plus (or a budding numismatist) to have any great knowledge of the old British currency system. However, what do you know of LSD? That’s the short name…
What do you know of Royal Navy ships? As an island nation, the sea has always been of the greatest importance to the United Kingdom. The history of the country is indelibly linked to that of the Royal Navy. From the mid-18th century until the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the world’s largest…
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