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The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 ended which two major conflicts in European history?
🕰 Hint: One of them lasted three decades...
Answer:
The Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War
🎓 Specialist Subject Round – History
Q1 (Early Modern Europe):
What 1517 event is traditionally regarded as the start of the Protestant Reformation?
A: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses.
🧠 Highbrow/Lowbrow Round – History Themed
Highbrow:
Who was the longest-reigning Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1658 to 1705?
A: Leopold I.
Lowbrow:
In the TV series Horrible Histories, which historical king is featured singing "Divorced, Beheaded, Died"?
A: Henry VIII.
📝 The List Round – History Edition
Name as many British Prime Ministers from the 20th century as you can.
Example answers: Churchill, Attlee, Macmillan, Thatcher, Major...
⚡ Quickfire Round – "Revolution or Not?"
Say whether each of the following involved a revolution (Yes or No):
The Glorious Revolution (1688) – ✅ Yes
The War of 1812 – ❌ No
The Velvet Revolution – ✅ Yes
The Boer War – ❌ No
The Cultural Revolution – ✅ Yes
❓ Odd One Out – History Version
Q: Which of these rulers does not belong, and why?
Alexander the Great
Genghis Khan
Julius Caesar
Elizabeth I
A: Elizabeth I – the only one who did not lead an empire through military conquest across vast territories.
To help try and distinguish between them, officers wore coloured sashes – tawny orange or pale blue for Parliamentarian, crimson red for Royalists.
When did Charlamagne rule?
Velvet revolution 1989 - 1 party prev. ruled for 41 years
When was the manga carta signed? 1215
The Berlin Conference of 1884–85 was held to divide which continent among European powers?
A: Africa.
Who wrote the 18th-century work The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
A: Edward Gibbon.
Weimar Republic
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of Tiananmen to protest the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles decision to allow the Empire of Japan to retain territories in Shandong that had been surrendered by the German Empire after the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914
RMS Lusitania
cruiser roles
goodbye = short for ‘god be w/you’
Spa Field riots ended in violence and highlighted the tensions between the working class and the authorities in early 20th century Britain. - ended with significant casualties and a crackdown on labor movements, emphasizing the struggle for rights and recognition. - leaders executed for high treason
Owenites had tried to get everyone to join their utopian socialist society
practice serving successive forces adopted ← French - not widely adopted initially; resentment tow. Napoleon
almond cheesecakes due to RC: prohibition dairy dur. fast days → forced English cooks to innovate w/almond milk
potatoes considered lower-class food, often associated with poverty and limited resources, became a symbol of the economic struggles faced by the working class during this time.