1. Where did this ship dock on 22 June 1948?

   1. Felixstowe

   2. Liverpool

   3. Southampton

   4. Tilbury

2. 

   Where was this short-lived celebration?

   1. Berlin

   2. Budapest

   3. Paris

   4. Prague

3. 

   Where did these three famously meet?

   1. Geneva

   2. Nuremberg

   3. Potsdam

   4. Yalta

4. 

   Prime Minister Harold Wilson, with pipe and sunburnt legs, is on holiday where?

   1. Anglesey

   2. Isles of Scilly

   3. Isle of Wight

   4. Isle of Skye

5. 

   This Pablo Picasso masterpiece depicts the carnage of the Spanish civil war in which region?

   1. Asturias

   2. Basque Country

   3. Galicia

   4. Catalonia

6. 

   One of the most famous fights in history took place where?

   1. Kinshasa

   2. Las Vegas

   3. Manila

   4. Mexico City

7. 

   This didn't end well. Where did it all start?

   1. Belgrade

   2. Sarajevo

   3. Versaille

   4. Vienna

8. 

   This is somewhere between Ibiza and the Norfolk Broads – but where exactly?

   1. Brixton

   2. Camden

   3. Hackney

   4. Soho

9. 

   It's a wrap! Where did this take place?

   1. Berlin

   2. Moscow

   3. Paris

   4. Stockholm

10. 

    Gazza's tears made him the most famous person in the UK for a while, but where was this match played?

    1. Milan

    2. Naples

    3. Rome

    4. Turin

11. 

    Where are these matchstick men and women?

    1. Birmingham

    2. Liverpool

    3. Manchester

    4. Newcastle

12. 

    Fidel could always draw a crowd - where was this one?

    1. Havana

    2. Moscow

    3. New York

    4. Rio de Janeiro

13. 

    Where did the Arab spring begin?

    1. Egypt

    2. Libya

    3. Lebanon

    4. Tunisia

14. 

    The barefoot runner, the nasty fall ... but in which Olympics did this controversial race take place?

    1. Moscow

    2. Barcelona

    3. Seoul

    4. Los Angeles

15. 

    Nelson Mandela was freed just over 30 years ago. Where was the jail he walked out of to greet cheering crowds?

    1. Paarl, near Cape Town

    2. Robben Island

    3. Sun City, south of Johannesburg

    4. Pretoria Central

16. 

    Which English town did Malcolm X visit just nine days before he was assassinated?

    1. Halifax

    2. Northampton

    3. Oldham

    4. Smethwick

Solutions

1:D - The Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury on the River Thames, bringing one of the first large groups of postwar West Indian immigrants to the UK., 2:D - Residents wave Czechoslovakian flags while standing on an overturned truck and surround Soviet tanks during the Prague Spring, 1968., 3:D - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin with their advisers in February 1945 meet at Yalta, on the Crimean peninsula. The agreement they reached at the conference was instrumental to the partitioning of Germany and the inception of the United Nations., 4:B - The Wilsons had a small bungalow built on the island of St Mary's in 1959; it was still being used by Lady Wilson until her death in 2018. He is buried on the island., 5:B - Guernica (1937) is one of his best known works, painted in response to the bombing of the Basque town of of Guernica by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy at the request of Franco., 6:A - George Foreman (left) lost to Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), in 1974., 7:B - Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the Duchess of Hohenberg moments before their assassination on 8 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia – one of the incidents that sparked the outbreak of the first world war., 8:A - Floral tributes to David Bowie on his death in January 2016, in Brixton, the south London neighbourhood where he was born., 9:A - The Wrapped Reichstag was an art project by Christo and Jeanne-Claude that covered the German parliament building in almost 100,000 square metres of polypropylene fabric in 1995., 10:D - Paul Gascoigne after England's defeat to West Germany in the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup at Turin's Stadio Delle Alpi., 11:C - LS Lowry's Going To Work (1943) depicts factory workers in the snow outside the Park Works of the Mather and Platt engineering firm in Newton Heath, Manchester., 12:C - According to the New York Daily News, in 1959 "Fidel Castro came to New York, hired a public relations firm, ate hot dogs, kissed ladies like a rock star, and held babies like a politician.", 13:D - An anti-government protests in Tunisia in 2011, which sparked the Arab Spring, a series of uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world., 14:D - In the 1984 LA Games, Mary Decker crashes out of the 3,000m after colliding with Zola Budd (151). , 15:A - Mandela spent the last 14 months of his 27-year incarceration in a house at the former Victor Verster prison in Paarl, 16:D - The civil rights campaigner visited on 12 February 1965. Smethwick was then a hotbed of racial tension. The Conservative council was attempting to buy houses for resale to white people only; the previous year, Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths had played the race card to take the seat from Labour and become the MP for Smethwick.

Scores

1. 13 and above.

   Past master!

2. 9 and above.

   You're an old hand at this

3. 0 and above.

   Best stick to Where's Wally!

4. 5 and above.

   You're history!