History Trivia Quiz #3
This is a picture of:
a) musicians practicing the cannon blast in the 1812 Overture
b) a doctor and patient admiring the recently invented armed wheelchair
c) Hiram Maxim demonstrating his machine gun to King Edward VII

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ANSWER: c) Hiram Maxim (kneeling) demonstrating his automatic machine gun to King Edward VII.

Hiram Maxim had invented an improved version of the hair-curling iron and the incandescent lamp but saw his life change while visiting the Paris Electrical Exhibition in 1881, when someone said to him "If you want to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these fool Europeans to kill each other with greater facility." He moved to London and produced the world's first automatic machine gun there in 1883.

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History Trivia Quiz #2

Everybody has heard of the Molotov cocktail. But who was Molotov?
a) The longest surviving Soviet communist official
b) The head cocktail waiter in the Paris Ritz
c) A bomb designer


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ANSWER: a) The longest surviving Soviet communist official.

"Molotov" was the alias of Russian diplomat Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin (1890-1986). He was the longest surviving member of the top rank of Soviet communist officials, having been a member of the Bolshevik Party (which predated the Communist Party), participated in the revolution, survived Stalin's purges of the 30s and became ambassador to Outer Mongolia in 1957.

His main claim to fame is that the Molotov cocktail, a home-made bomb, was named after him in irony by the Finns who used them against the Russian tanks in 1940 during the Soviet invasion of Finland known as the Winter War of 1939.

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History Trivia Quiz #1 Aircraft

Which aircraft is generally held to have won the day battle over Germany in World War 2?
a) The Mustang
b) The Spitfire
c) The Hawker Hurricane

CLUE 1 - It was a single seater long range (1000 miles) fighter.

CLUE 2 - The prototype was built from scratch in America in 120 days by NAA (North American Aviation) in 1940 for the RAF who were running out of planes during the Battle of Britain.

CLUE 3 - Initially it performed badly at high altitudes but when the engine was changed to a Merlin Rolls Royce engine, it could reach over 30,000 feet.

CLUE 4 - It was versatile - it could escort long-range bombers deep into enemy territory because it carried fuel in its wings and drop tanks, could engage in dogfights (6 machine guns) and could bomb from the air (2x 1000 lb bombs)

CLUE 5 - Chuck Yeager famously flew one of these

CLUE 6 - It made its name in long range escort duty, protecting heavy bombers from Luftwaffe raids, outmatching any attacking Fw190 or Bf109s.

CLUE 7 - It was used in the Korean War as a ground attack fighter.


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ANSWER - The P-51DMustang