Name the Country
Baku is the capital of this country.
Azerbaijan
Name one story or novel by the author Roald Dahl.
The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, The Giraffe, Pele and Me, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Landlady, Lamb to the Slaughter.
The type of vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - that was held on Thursday 23 June, 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the European Union.
Referendum
The name of the first female British Prime Minister (1979-1990).
Margaret Thatcher
The planet nearest to the Earth.
Mercury
The present name of the African country that was formerly called Rhodesia.
Zimbabwe
The English author who is considered by many as one of the greatest novelists of the Victorian Times. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters (Oliver Twist, Scrooge, Pip, David Copperfield) that are still known today.
Charles Dickens
Of the 5 countries in the United Kingdom, name 1 country (of 2) that voted to STAY IN the European Union.
Scotland, Northern Ireland
The name of the Norman king who invaded England in 1066.
William the Conquerer
The largest planet in our solar system.
Jupiter
Name one country on the South American continent that is in the Northern Hemisphere.
Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname
What the initial J in the name of author JK Rowling represents.
Jo
The EU flag is compromised of these 2 colours.
Blue and Yellow
What was the Doomsday Book?
A survey of all people and who owned which property, who else lived there, how much the land was worth, number of livestock, so William the Conquerer would therefore know how much tax he could charge
The first man-made object sent into space.
Sputnik 1
The country formerly known as Burma, which has been in the news for its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.
Myanmar
The name of the Shakespeare tragedy in which the line "to be or not to be" is recited.
Hamlet
What Prime Minister Teresa May has agreed to do on 7 June.
Step down as prime minister
The primary reason Henry VIII broke away from Rome and established his own church, the Church of England?
The Pope wouldn't give him a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Henry wanted to marry Anne Boleyn.
The first person to set foot on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong
Which 2 countries lie south of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula?
Yemen and Oman
The author of the classic novels Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, written in the 18th century.
Jane Austen
This politician used to be the leader of the nationalist UKIP party, and is now leading the Brexit Party.
Nigel Farage
Over 170,000 people were sent to Australia from Elizabethan times up until 1868. Why?
Convicts were punished under the system of Transportation, which meant exile from Britain. Punishments varied from a few years to a life of hard labor.
The Earth formed x billion years ago. (round to the nearest tenth)
4.54 billion years ago