Statistics for Giant Great Britain 20th Century Quiz

Click here to take the quiz!

General Stats
Answer Stats
Score Distribution
Your Score History

General Stats

This quiz has been taken 1,841 times
(1,606 since last reset)
The average score is 51 of 100

Answer Stats

Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1981	This person takes the title of Princess of Wales after marrying Prince Charles.	Diana Spencer	91%
1997	Scientists in Edinburgh announce the birth of a cloned sheep with this name.	Dolly	91%
1990	Rowan Atkinson performs the TV debut of this comedy character.	Mr Bean	91%
1982	Britain goes to war against Argentina to recapture these islands in the South Atlantic.	Falkland Islands	90%
1991	This singer dies, soon after announcing that he is suffering from AIDS.	Freddie Mercury	89%
1983	Use of this safety device becomes mandatory for drivers and front seat passengers.	Seatbelt	87%
1952	Following the death of George VI this person becomes Monarch.	Elizabeth II	84%
1978	The first delivery of this liquid comes ashore in Shetland via the Brent pipeline.	North Sea {oil}	83%
1953	This former wartime leader wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.	Winston Churchill	83%
1955	This book of extremes is published for the first time.	{Guinness} Book of Records	82%
1929	This period of national economic downturn begins in Britain.	Great {Depression}	80%
1901	This long-serving Monarch dies after a reign of over 63 years.	Queen Victoria	78%
1960	This Rock and Roll icon stops off at Glasgow Prestwick Airport after doing military service in West Germany, the only time he ever visited the UK.	Elvis Presley	77%
1911	This iconic liner is launched in a Belfast shipyard.	RMS Titanic	77%
1922	This Scottish born inventor of the telephone dies in Nova Scotia.	Alexander Graham Bell	76%
1959	This Mediterranean country becomes independent from the UK.	Cyprus	75%
1934	The 'surgeon's photograph' of this mysterious creature is published in the Daily Mail.	{Loch} {Ness} Monster	75%
1926	This bear makes his public debut in a book by A.A. Milne.	Winnie the Pooh	75%
1940	Operation Dynamo saw over 330,000 allied troops evacuated from this French coastal town.	Dunkirk	73%
1900	This political party is formed, with Ramsay MacDonald as its first secretary.	Labour Party	72%
1988	Panam flight 103 crashes on this Scottish town killing 270 people.	Lockerbie	72%
1938	This Prime Minister returns from Munich declaring he's achieved “Peace for our time”.	Neville Chamberlain	72%
1963	This group tops the singles chart for the first time with 'From Me to You'.	The Beatles	72%
1998	This iconic statue by Antony Gormley, near the A1 road in Gateshead, is completed.	{Angel} of the North	71%
1985	This popular TV soap is launched on BBC1.	Eastenders	71%
1996	Matthew Pinsent and Steve Redgrave win Britain's only gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, competing in this sport.	Rowing	71%
1950	The first book is published in a series chronicling the tales of this magical land.	Narnia	70%
1908	London holds this sporting competition for the first time.	Olympic Games	70%
1933	Two British aircraft make the first ever flight over this mountain.	Mount Everest	69%
1945	On 8th May this celebration marks the formal surrender of Nazi Germany.	VE Day	69%
1976	These confrontations over fishing rights between Britain and Iceland come to an end.	{Cod} Wars	67%
1984	A major fire in the roof of this large cathedral causes extensive damage.	{York} Minster	67%
1918	The Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service combine to form this military unit.	Royal Air Force	65%
1971	The BBC begins broadcasts for this distance learning educational establishment.	{Open} University	64%
1909	F.W. Woolworth & Co. opens its first UK high street store in this northern city.	Liverpool	63%
1987	Christie's sells an example of this Vincent van Gogh painting for £24,750,000.	Sunflowers	63%
1935	This future portrayer of nanny Mary Poppins is born in Surrey.	Julie Andrews	61%
1902	Newton Heath Football Club changes its identity to this prestigious name.	Manchester United	60%
1907	Robert Baden-Powell leads the first camp on Brownsea Island for this youth movement.	Scouting	60%
1964	This popular weekly music programme airs on BBC TV for the first time.	Top of the Pops	60%
1999	Forming the new national sports stadium for Wales, this venue opens in Cardiff.	Millennium Stadium	59%
1923	A shake up of the organisation of this mode of transportation, sees the grouping of many small companies into four major ones.	Railways	59%
1904	Two men meet for the first time in Manchester and go on to agree production of this luxury motor car brand.	Rolls-Royce	59%
1994	Europe's first inverted roller coaster, Nemesis, opens at this Staffordshire theme park.	Alton Towers	57%
1975	Brian Clough is appointed manager of this struggling Second Division football team and leads them to great sucess over the next 18 years.	Nottingham Forest	57%
1917	The last major raid on Britain by this type of airship occurs during October when eleven are launched against the country.	Zeppelin	57%
1910	Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off from Cardiff on a fateful voyage to this distant place.	Antarctica	56%
1954	This person becomes the first person to break the four-minute mile.	Roger Bannister	54%
1974	Welsh man Ray Reardon wins his third World Championship title in this sport.	Snooker	54%
1962	A new cathedral is consecrated in this Midlands city to replace the one destroyed in WW2.	Coventry	52%
1924	The Meteorological Office issues its first "Weather Shipping" radio broadcast as an aid to sailors. It later became known by this name and is still transmitted to this day.	Shipping {Forecast}	52%
1993	This author dies, having become best known for his novel 'Lord of the Flies'.	William Golding	52%
1936	The paper, 'On Computable Numbers', is formally presented by this mathematician.	Alan Turing	51%
1912	Britain's first national strike by this group of workers begins in February.	Coal miners	51%
1905	This Birmingham based football team beat Newcastle United, 2-0, in the F.A. Cup Final.	Aston Villa	50%
1916	This Liberal politician forms a coalition government and becomes Prime Minister.	David Lloyd George	50%
1989	Golfer Nick Faldo becomes the first English winner of this prestigious competition.	US Masters	50%
1932	This dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley is first published.	Brave New World	49%
1956	Devon Loch, ridden by Dick Francis, slips and falls within 40 yards of 'certain' victory in this prestigious horse race.	Grand National	49%
1931	This guidance and set of rules for road users is published for the first time.	Highway Code	47%
1944	The first attack by this German rocket powered missile is launched against London.	V-2	46%
1957	This musical venue opens in Liverpool as a jazz club.	{Cavern} Club	43%
1966	This football player scores a hat trick to help England win the World Cup final.	Geoff Hurst	42%
1992	This publication, Britain's oldest satirical magazine, finishes after over 150 years.	Punch	41%
1977	This English tennis player wins the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon.	Virginia Wade	39%
1961	This coin, used since the thirteenth century, ceases to be legal tender in Britain.	Farthing	38%
1946	BBC radio begins broadcasting this long running topical series by Alistair Cooke.	{Letter} from America	37%
1939	The first of these cheap shelters, issued to householders as protection against air-raids, is built in a garden in Islington in preparation for the expected war.	{Anderson} shelter	36%
1949	This Act comes into effect which requires men aged 18–26 in England, Scotland and Wales to serve full-time in the armed forces for 18 months during peacetime.	National Service	35%
1941	This leading Nazi party member parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission.	Rudolf Hess	35%
1937	The first issue of this children's comic is published by D.C. Thomson of Dundee.	The Dandy	34%
1903	This future comedian, actor, singer and dancer is born in London. He went on to be an American icon and lived to be 100.	Bob Hope	33%
1948	Stoke Mandeville Games are held for the first time, the predecessor of this 4 yearly event.	{Paralympic} Games	33%
1980	This pirate radio station ceases transmission when the ship on which it is based runs aground and sinks off the Thames Estuary.	Radio {Caroline}	33%
1925	This Luton carmaker is purchased by General Motors but retains its identity.	Vauxhall	31%
1995	'Rogue trader' Nick Leeson is jailed in Singapore for fraud related to the financial collapse of this London based Merchant Bank.	Barings	30%
1921	This explorer sets sail on his last expedition to Antarctica.	Ernest Shackleton	30%
1951	This celebration is staged to lift spirits and sustain post-war confidence.	{Festival} of Britain	30%
1970	The 120-year-old Britannia Bridge over this North Wales waterway is destroyed by fire.	{Menai} Strait	30%
1967	The giant QE2 ocean liner is launched at John Brown & Company's yard on this river.	Clyde	29%
1928	The first full version of this language resource is published in 10 bound volumes.	Oxford English Dictionary	29%
1965	This film is released - the fourth in the James Bond series.	Thunderball	28%
1947	The film 'Hue and Cry' is released by this London studio, the first in a series of comedies.	Ealing	26%
1969	Best known for this book, the naturalist Gavin Maxwell dies at the age of 55.	Ring of {Bright} Water	26%
1906	The first section of this line opens from Baker Street station on the London Underground system.	Bakerloo	25%
1919	After WW1 the captured German fleet is scuttled in this bay in the Orkney Islands.	Scapa Flow	25%
1915	This novel by John Buchan first appears in print. Featuring the adventuring hero Richard Hannay, it is later made into numerous radio and film adaptations.	The Thirty-Nine Steps	25%
1958	Britain's first motorway opens, bypassing this town in the north-west of England.	Preston	23%
1927	At Pendine Sands in Wales this driver sets a world land speed record of 174.88 mph.	Malcolm Campbell	22%
1930	This person becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.	Amy Johnson	17%
1914	This large seaplane carrier is commissioned, the second ship to carry this famous name.	HMS Ark Royal	16%
1968	On the run for killing Martin Luther King Jnr., this person is arrested at Heathrow Airport.	James Earl Ray	16%
1913	This suffragette dies after a lifetime of fighting for votes for women.	Emily Davison	15%
1979	A Force 10 storm in the Irish Sea hits this major biennual yacht race, killing 15 and causing 24 boats to be abandoned, of which five were sunk.	Fastnet	15%
1943	This future Doctor Who actor is born in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute.	Sylvester McCoy	15%
1972	This credit card brand is launched to compete with the established Barclaycard.	Access	13%
1942	The city of Bath is blitzed, one of a number of German air raids named for this series of tourist guide books which were used to identify targets for bombing.	Baedeker	13%
1920	This author, whose novels feature the protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, is one of the first women to be awarded a degree at the University of Oxford.	Dorothy L. Sayers	13%
1986	These islands in the Outer Hebrides become Scotland's first World Heritage Site.	St. Kilda	11%
1973	Robert Watson-Watt, a pioneer of this technology dies in Inverness at the age of 81.	Radar	10%