Right Time, Wrong Place Trivia Quiz

Answer: Hastings

The Battle of Hastings is considered to be the culmination of the Norman invasion of England. The Normans were victorious and it is generally accepted that this was the turning point, where William, the Duke of Normandy gained control.

William was the cousin of the previous king, Edward the Confessor, and believed that he was the rightful heir to the throne. When Harold II was crowned, he considered this an act of war and started to gather troops. William invaded England on 28th September 1066 and the Battle of Hastings took place less than three weeks later on October 14th.

Answer: Palos de la Frontera

Columbus started his first voyage in Palos de la Frontera, a small village which lies opposite the modern day Port of Huelva. After a delay in the Canary Islands, land was sighted on October 12th, 1492. It was the Bahamas, named San Salvador by Columbus.

Answer: Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea is significant as it was the first attempt to govern or steer the Christian church by a majority rule or consensus. The Nicene Creed stems from this first council. Throughout the Christian world, the creed is considered a profession of faith: it outlines beliefs, but is not an exhaustive statement of them.

Answer: Philadelphia

The U.S. Declaration of Independence is a powerful statement of the right of a young emerging nation to govern itself. The text of the document was long debated and there is a great deal of interest in the text itself, its ideas and influences.

Answer: Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is on dispay in The British Museum in London, England. It was discovered by a French army engineer during construction on Fort Julien. After fighting between British and French troops in Egypt, it was appropriated by the British, although stories are not clear on how exactly this happened.

The Reverend Stephen Weston is credited as the first to make early translations of the stone, however it was a French linguist, Jean-François Champollion, who is credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Answer: Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle changed our understanding of the origins of mankind and allowed him to develop his theories on human evolution.
John Hadley was an English scientist who invented the reflecting telescope and there is a valley on the moon named after him.
James Hargreaves was the inventor of the spinning jenny, a more efficient method of spinning wool than a spinning wheel.
Humphrey Davy was the inventor of the first electric light by connecting wires to a battery and a piece of carbon which then glowed.

Answer: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

The Wright brothers promised their father that they would not fly together, for fear that an accident could result in the loss of both sons. They only ever flew together once, in 1910, and they requested permission from their father to make that flight. On that same day, Orville Wright took their father Milton up for his only flight.

Answer: Sarajevo

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was essentially the first shot of World War I. Tensions had been growing between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and also Russia. Ironically, the Archduke was not greatly mourned by his nearest and dearest and the significance of this assassination only became clear in the aftermath. Thirty seven days after this assassination, which also killed the Archduke's wife and their unborn fourth child, World War I started.

Answer: Battle of Britain

The name of the battle comes from a speech given on 18 June 1940 by Winston Churchill in which he stated 'The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin..'

The significance of the battle lies in the fact that Germany failed to achieve air superiority over British forces. Had they gained such superiority, it would have opened to door to other forms of attack, including invasion.

Answer: General Post Office

The General Post Office or G.P.O is still standing in Dublin's O'Connell Street. It is the headquarters of An Post, the Irish postal service.
It is a Georgian building with six Ionic columns making up part of a portico on the exterior. These columns bear the marks of the Easter Rising; the pockmarks of bullets can be still be seen on them.