What event is known in Gaelic as An Gorta Mor, meaning the Great Hunger?
Question 2 of 15
Jules Verne wrote a 1873 novel about going around the world in how many days?
Question 3 of 15
Which 2010 movie, featuring blue humanoids, became one of the biggest movies of all time?
Question 4 of 15
Which famous actor was born in 1979?
Question 5 of 15
There was a siege at the embassy of which country in London in 1980?
Question 6 of 15
The artificial what was invented in 1969?
Question 7 of 15
Which famous explorer named the Australian region known as New South Wales?
Question 8 of 15
The Good Friday Agreement was signed between the British and which other country's government?
Question 9 of 15
After he died, Ferdinand Marcos was left rotting because Imelda would only bury him in what country?
Question 10 of 15
In the 1950s, Project Washtub was a US plan to frustrate a Soviet invasion with a guerrilla army of bush pilots, trappers and assorted secret agents. Where?
Question 11 of 15
What year was the Marshall Plan announced?
Question 12 of 15
Which country singer was born in 1932?
Question 13 of 15
Much in the news in early 1997, who or what was Hale-Bopp?
Question 14 of 15
In the 1890s, what law student lived with an Anglo-Indian family at 20 Baron's Court Road in London?
Question 15 of 15
Napoleon was exiled to which island?
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