20th Century - The First 50 Years

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

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 J R R Tolkien Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Buchan

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

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

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 Winston Churchill William Shakespere The unknown soldier

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

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