Quiz No. 8/27 Worldwide

1-Who was “Lord Haw_Haw”?

Ans:    An Irish-born broadcaster from Germany in the Second World war, who was hanged as a traitor after the war

2- Who fought the Thirty Years’ War?

Ans:    German Protestants Catholics (1618 – 48)

3- Why was 1848 called the ‘Year of revolutions’?

Ans:    Because there were so many of them in Europe

4- After which American President are teddy bears named?

Ans:    Theodore Roosevelt. The facts are disputed but it stemmed from a cartoon in 1902 which showed the president refusing to shoot a captive bear cub.

5- Where is the magnificent Bridge?

Ans:    Sydney Harbour, Australia

6- Where can the world’s first iron bridge be seen?

Ans:    At Coalbrookedale in Shropshire. Abraham Darby and John Wilkinson built it in 1779

7- Which explorer found the sea route to India by way of the Cap of Good Hope?

Ans:    The Portuguese navigator, Vasco da Gama

8- Who was the first Briton to visit Australia?

Ans:    The buccaneer and navigator, William Dampier, in 1688

9- A magnificent steel arch bridge was completed in 1932. Where?

Ans:    Sydney

10- Why Australians are sometimes called ‘Diggers’?

Ans:    The nickname comes from Gold Rush days in the 1850s, when the diggers dug