History questions often ask about dates. You'll need to work harder here, though, as you have not only to identify the 'when', but then work the logic backwards too...
Through these ten questions, we flit back and forth through time to investigate some of the trivia beneath literature of various ages. Hold tight as our journey goes back almost 3,000 years and extends far into the future too. Enjoy...
If your name is Tom Baker, you might never have made a loaf of bread, but your ancestors surely did. In medieval times, people were known by their trade, such as 'Tom the Baker', and many of those trades have been handed down as surnames.
Society has been executing people for various reasons since before Socrates was sentenced to death by poisoning more than 2,400 years ago. Here we remember ten others who were executed...
"And the man in the back said everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz..." except it wasn't the man at the back who said it, but the guy at the front. This quiz is dedicated to men (or women) at the back!
Animal-specific terms range from the names for babies, particular terms for male or female members of the species, collective nouns and many more. Here are some of the more unusual ones...
Phobophobia is the irrational fear of phobias. By the time you have been through this somewhat irreverent look at some of the strange things that scare people, you should know if you have it :) Hopefully, though, I haven't given it to you!
We all remember the classic albums. How well, though, do you know the catalogues of even the most famous bands? There is one question for bands formed in each year of the 1960s...
As we travel around the world keeping track of time, you need to identify which currencies will be needed to purchase lunch. (All times are standard, not accounting for daylight saving time).
Many animals have rather misleading names such as 'bear' or 'dog' when they are really nothing of the sort. Can you identify the closest relatives of these animals?
We visit Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and step back to ancient times in this whirlwind test of worldwide historical general knowledge.