Q.1
On 29th May 1453, when the future Richard III was 6 months old, the ancient Roman Empire finally crumbled after the fall of which city?
  • Rome
  • Athens
  • Constantinople
  • Alexandria
Q.2
On 17th July 1453, the English were defeated by the French in the Battle of Castillon. This event ended the Hundred Years War and drove the English from all of France save for the Channel Islands and which town?
  • Caen
  • Cherbourg
  • Le Havre
  • Calais
Q.3
The Ottomans attempted to extend their empire further into Europe by attacking the principality of Wallachia in modern day Romania. In 1462 the Ottomans retreated after being defeated in several skirmishes by Prince Vlad III. Vlad inspired which character who is featured in a classic horror novel?
  • Count Dracula
  • Doctor Jekyll
  • Baron Frankenstein
  • Doctor Moreau
Q.4
As well as in England, civil war was breaking out elsewhere in the world. Starting in 1467 and lasting for nearly a century and a half, the Sengoku Period of civil war took place in which country?
  • Vietnam
  • Japan
  • China
  • Korea
Q.5
On 19th October 1469, the seed of a new nation was sown with the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, each heir to a kingdom. What was the name of the united kingdom ruled over by their daughter Joanna I?
  • Italy
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Poland
Q.6
On 15th April 1469 Nanak Dev was born in what is now Pakistan. He is the founder of which religion?
  • Sunni Islam
  • Sikhism
  • Shia Islam
  • Hinduism
Q.7
On 20th August 1470, the Battle of Lipnic took place in which the small principality of Moldavia, in modern day Romania, took on and beat an invading Mongol army, despite suffering huge losses. By what name was this Mongol army known?
  • The Golden Horde
  • The Dreadful Multitude
  • The Mighty Swathe
  • The Fearless Host
Q.8
In 1478 the Principality of Muscovy (modern day Moscow) annexed the nearby state of Novgorod in a step towards a unification of Russia. Who was the Muscovian leader at the time of Novgorod's capture?
  • Ivan the Blind
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • Ivan the Handsome
  • Ivan the Great
Q.9
Which notorious organisation first appeared in 1478?
  • The Knights Templar
  • The Mafia
  • The Spanish Inquisition
  • The Priory of Sion
Q.10
In 1485, the same year that the Battle of Bosworth brought the Wars of the Roses to an end, elsewhere in the world a military coup overthrew an Emperor. Praudha Raya was ousted and replaced by Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya in the Empire of Vijayanagara. Whereabouts in the world was Vijayanagara?
  • Modern day Myanmar
  • Modern day India
  • Modern day Laos
  • Modern day Thailand
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