Friday, May 8, 2020
Moments in history quiz: where in the world
You may be familiar with these iconic images, but where did the events take place?
Where did this ship dock on 22 June 1948?
Felixstowe
Liverpool
Southampton
Tilbury
Where was this short-lived celebration?
Berlin
Budapest
Paris
Prague
Where did these three famously meet?
Geneva
Nuremberg
Potsdam
Yalta
Prime Minister Harold Wilson, with pipe and sunburnt legs, is on holiday where?
Anglesey
Isles of Scilly
Isle of Wight
Isle of Skye
This Pablo Picasso masterpiece depicts the carnage of the Spanish civil war in which region?
Asturias
Basque Country
Galicia
Catalonia
One of the most famous fights in history took place where?
Kinshasa
Las Vegas
Manila
Mexico City
This didn't end well. Where did it all start?
Belgrade
Sarajevo
Versaille
Vienna
This is somewhere between Ibiza and the Norfolk Broads – but where exactly?
Brixton
Camden
Hackney
Soho
It's a wrap! Where did this take place?
Berlin
Moscow
Paris
Stockholm
Gazza's tears made him the most famous person in the UK for a while, but where was this match played?
Milan
Naples
Rome
Turin
Where are these matchstick men and women?
Birmingham
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle
Fidel could always draw a crowd - where was this one?
Havana
Moscow
New York
Rio de Janeiro
Where did the Arab spring begin?
Egypt
Libya
Lebanon
Tunisia
The barefoot runner, the nasty fall ... but in which Olympics did this controversial race take place?
Moscow
Barcelona
Seoul
Los Angeles
Nelson Mandela was freed just over 30 years ago. Where was the jail he walked out of to greet cheering crowds?
Paarl, near Cape Town
Robben Island
Sun City, south of Johannesburg
Pretoria Central
Which English town did Malcolm X visit just nine days before he was assassinated?
Halifax
Northampton
Oldham
Smethwick
13 and above.
Past master!
9 and above.
You're an old hand at this
0 and above.
Best stick to Where's Wally!
5 and above.
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