Weekly History Quiz No.226

Growing up in Dorset she became famous for collecting fossils, by the time she was 18 she was known as an authority on them. She came from a poor background and had no formal education, learning about fossils through her own experiences and ingenuity.

A very successful event for France, this traditional European sport has seen a steady haul of medals for several European countries and is also part of another Olympic sport, the modern pentathlon.

Pompey and Julius Caesar came into competition for power after the fall of the First Triumvirate. This led to a civil war, which Caesar won decisively. Pompey sought asylum in Egypt, but was murdered on Ptolemy XIII’s orders as soon as he arrived.

This painting is seen as the first painting of the Neo-Impressionism movement. Seurat used the optical effect of miniature dots or small brushstrokes of colours that when unified optically in the human eye were perceived as a single shade or hue.

The International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg established many principles of international law, including establishing crimes against humanity and the prohibition on waging aggressive war in order to gain territory.

Born in Pembroke Castle in 1457, son of Margaret Beaufort, an English heiress of royal descent, and a half-Welsh, half-French earl named Edmund Tudor, Henry was far from the line of Royal succession. He was exiled to Brittany for much of the Wars of the Roses, returning to defeat Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and seize the crown.

Donoghue was served a drink in a Scottish cafe in 1928, and found a decomposing snail in the ginger beer bottle, after she had consumed it. She became sick, and sued the manufacturer of the drink.

English traders had been importing tea from China since the 1600s. Scottish botanist Robert Fortune introduced the plants to British controlled India around 1850, dramatically reducing its cost.

The book follows a group of young, high status Florentines who travel to the mountains to escape the plague sweeping urban Italy. It was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and takes the form of a series of short stories, told by each of the members of the group.

Over 2.5 million Indian soldiers served in the British Indian army during the conflict, making them by far the largest all volunteer army fighting in the war. Without the Indian contingent the British and Allies would have been unable to hold back the Japanese, Germans and Italians in many theatres of the conflict.