[history quiz] ten questions to test your memory

Via Appia, Roma

1] What was Operation Sea Lion in the Second World War? ... and Operation Dynamo?

2] What was the name of Haile Selassie before he was crowned in 1930?

3] Which American City is named after a British Prime Minister?

4] Which Republic exists in France since 1958?

5] Which two other countries joined the EEC at the same time as Ireland?

6] Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as president of France?

7] Who was the last British Prime Minister not to have a wife?

8] The Roman Appian Way went from Rome to where?

9] Enola Gay was the name of the bomber that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, but what was the name of the bomber that dropped it on Nagasaki?

10] Eboracum is the roman name for which city?

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