Test your knowledge of history in this 30-year special edition of Brainwaves with Marty Smith

Could remember the answer to a trivia question you were asked 12 months ago? Find out in this themed quiz Marty Smith created last year to celebrate 30 years of Brainwaves. Marty's 10 quizzes from last year were such a hit we have dragged them out again to test your long-term memory. The theme for the following quiz is history.  

An undated artist's impression of Florence Nightingale.

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** To celebrate 30 years of Brainwaves, Marty Smith and advertiser.com.au have produced 10 for this summer, made up of some of his best questions. This quiz’s theme is: History. Decide your answer then click on the answer button to see if you were correct. We’ll tally your score as you go. **

question: What are the three major classical orders of Greek architecture?

option: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

answer: 1

question: In which country was composer-pianist Percy Grainger born in 1882?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: According to legend, who rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, to win relief for the people from a burdensome tax?

option: Lady Godiva

answer: 1

question: Name the ancient Greek leader who said: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”

option: Pericles

answer: 1

question: What did US President Abraham Lincoln say was stronger than the bullet?

option: The ballot

answer: 1

question: In which year did the Eureka Stockade, an armed rebellion of goldminers, take place at Ballarat in Victoria?

option: 1854

answer: 1

question: How many wives of King Henry VIII of England were beheaded?

option: Two (Catherine Howard, Anne Boleyn)

answer: 1

question: Which ancient Greek physician is known as the father of medicine?

option: Hippocrates

answer: 1

question: In which country was the Rum Rebellion of 1808?

option: Australia

answer: 1

question: Who was formally canonised as a saint of the Catholic Church on May 16, 1920?

option: Joan of Arc

answer: 1

question: How many ships were in the First Fleet?

option: 11

answer: 1

question: Name the German airship which crashed and was destroyed by fire in the American state of New Jersey in 1937.

option: Hindenburg

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II did Singapore fall?

option: 1942

answer: 1

question: Which French monarch was called the Sun King?

option: Louis XIV

answer: 1

question: Name the American inventor of the cotton gin.

option: Eli Whitney

answer: 1

question: What nationality was Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach the South Pole?

option: Norwegian

answer: 1

question: In which year was Australian bushranger Ned Kelly executed?

option: 1880

answer: 1

question: Which religious order was founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534?

option: Society of Jesus (members are called Jesuits)

answer: 1

question: Which battle was fought in England on August 22, 1485?

option: Battle of Bosworth (Field), the last battle of the Wars of the Roses

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II did Japanese planes bomb the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii?

option: 1941

answer: 1

question: Name the legendary English medieval outlaw who robbed the rich to give to the poor.

option: Robin Hood

answer: 1

question: Which magazine was founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden in 1923?

option: Time

answer: 1

question: Who was the captain of HMS Bounty at the time of the famous mutiny in 1789?

option: William Bligh

answer: 1

question: In which country was gunpowder invented?

option: China

answer: 1

question: What was the Roman name for Scotland?

option: Caledonia

answer: 1

question: In which year did Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov ask for political asylum in Australia?

option: 1954

answer: 1

question: Who was Queen Elizabeth I’s mother?

option: Anne Boleyn

answer: 1

question: In which year during World War II did the Battle of the Coral Sea take place?

option: 1942

answer: 1

question: In which country was physicist Albert Einstein born in 1879?

option: Germany

answer: 1

question: In which year did Queen Victoria die?

option: 1901

answer: 1

question: Which famous British statesman lived from 1874 to 1965?

option: Sir Winston Churchill

answer: 1

question: Who was the second prime minister of Australia?

option: Alfred Deakin

answer: 1

question: Which war was described as the “war to end all wars”?

option: World War I

answer: 1

question: What kind of famine afflicted Ireland in the 1840s?

option: Potato

answer: 1

question: In which London theatre were most of William Shakespeare’s plays first performed?

option: Globe

answer: 1

question: On which ship did the Pilgrim Fathers sail from England to America in 1620?

option: Mayflower

answer: 1

question: What was the Penny Black?

option: First adhesive postage stamp issued in England in 1840

answer: 1

question: Which English king died at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

option: Harold II

answer: 1

question: In which year was the Great Fire of London?

option: 1666

answer: 1

question: Name the site of the monetary and financial conference in 1944 which led to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

option: Bretton Woods (in the American state of New Hampshire)

answer: 1

question: Which ancient king had a pet dog called Peritas?

option: Alexander the Great

answer: 1

question: Which English king won the Battle of Agincourt?

option: Henry V

answer: 1

question: Who invented dynamite in 1867?

option: Alfred Nobel

answer: 1

question: In which Italian city was Florence Nightingale, the English reformer of hospital nursing, born?

option: Florence

answer: 1

question: How is the painting Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 by US artist John Whistler better known?

option: Whistler’s Mother

answer: 1

question: In which city was the Titanic built?

option: Belfast

answer: 1

question: Who was the first of England’s Lancastrian kings?

option: Henry IV

answer: 1

question: What was the first leap year after the end of World War I?

option: 1920

answer: 1

question: Which prison in Paris was stormed on July 14, 1789?

option: The Bastille

answer: 1

question: The Lion’s Mound is a large artificial hill at the site of which famous battle?

option: Battle of Waterloo

answer: 1