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1. Which of these is Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana of Mexico associated with? Introducing chewing gum to North America All of these The Battle of the Alamo The Pastry War

2. What did Richard the Lionheart do with the 2,600 Saracens who surrendered to him after the siege of Acre in 1191? Sent them to the galleys Had them beheaded Had them carry his baggage to Cairo Held them to ransom

3. The Levellers were a mutinous faction of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army in the English Civil War. Cromwell himself finally settled the rebellion. How did he deal with the three ringleaders he identified? Had them summarily hanged Had them play dice to decide which one was to die Put them in a pit of snakes Sent them to work in a Welsh coal mine

4. How did the one eyed Hussite general, Jan Zizka of Bohemia, inspire his people even after his death? Had his remaining eye mounted on a royal standard Left them his wine cellar in his will Commissioned a song called "Bohemian Rhapsody" Had his skin made into a drum which led them into battle

5. What unusual object helped save John F. Kennedy's life when he was shipwrecked off the Solomon Islands in 1943? A Bombay Duck A coconut husk A boxing glove A mastic asphalt spreader

6. Which American general of considerable girth, a hero of the Mexican War, is alleged to have given his name to a well known exclamatory phase? He was also known as "Old Fuss and Feathers". General Johnny Jeepers General Winfield Scott General Barry Y. Gumm General G.Whizz

7. What finally finished off the hapless Major General Aitken's attempted invasion of German East Africa in World War 1? An outbreak of scurvy A swarm of bees Tank attack by the Germans A giant anaconda

8. The Dutch Navy was anchored off the island of Texel to the north of the Netherlands in January 1795 when it was attacked and defeated by which branch of the French military forces? The navy The cavalry The artillery The air force

9. Sergeant Clifton of the King's Light Dragoons was on patrol near Ramnagar in 1848, and was just picking an object up when his company were attacked by a Sikh force. Most of his company were hacked to death in the ensuing skirmish, but Sergeant Clifton survived because of the object he had hurriedly stowed under his cap as the alarm sounded. What saved his life? A turnip A cricket ball A bible An olive

10. During the Gallipoli landings of 1915, the British army won and promptly lost the strategically important village of Krithia on the Dardanelles Peninsula. What caused the unfortunate loss? The Turks bought the village back from the British The British went for a cup of tea A map reading mistake meant they walked right past it An anaconda scared them away