20th Century - The First 50 Years

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1. At which airfield did Neville Chamberlain land after returning from Munich in 1938? Gatwick Heathrow Croydon Heston

2. In which year did police in the United Kingdom (UK) first adopt fingerprinting as a means of identification? 1910 1921 1901 1914

3. In 1910 Paul Ehrlich developed a cure for which disease? Tuberculosis Typhoid Syphilis Smallpox

4. Which author was created Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in 1935 by King George V? Dick Francis John Buchan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle J R R Tolkien

5. The General Strike of 1926 was called in support of which industry? Coal Textiles Steel Railways

6. In which city was the Rotary Club founded in 1905? Washington New York Chicago London

7. The VW Beetle was first produced in 1948. True False

8. Upon whose tomb, in the UK, is the inscription "They buried him among Kings because he had done good toward God and toward his house"? Captain Lawrence Oates The unknown soldier William Shakespere Winston Churchill

9. Who was British Prime Minister when India was granted independence? Eden Churchill Attlee Chamberlain

10. In 1918 an influenza pandemic spread around the world. How is it popularly known? American flu Asian flu Spanish flu Mexican flu