11 thoughts on “History test”

  2. I slipped on 2, 3, 11, 13, 20

    I wasn’t far out with my incorrect answers but I’ve a feeling that I did a lot better than the average Brit whom I assume this survey was aimed at 🙂

  3. I knew them all except #14. Still I have lived in the UK all my life, and some of the other more recent dates coincide very closely with important events in my life. For instance, I passed my driving test three days after JFK was shot and our son was born a week after Elvis departed this mortal coil. Also, there is some debate over #5, as WW1 did not technically finish until 1919, when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, as the ANZAC war memorials in Oz point out. 🙂

  4. The murder of John Lennon was perhaps my first “I remember where I was when …” moment. I’d left work during my lunch hour and went to a local cafe where I saw the afternoon newspaper’s headlines.

  7. Since when is John Lennon’s death to be considered a key date?
    I suppose I should have remembered it for the relief it bought!

  8. christinaosborne :

    Since when is John Lennon’s death to be considered a key date?
    I suppose I should have remembered it for the relief it bought!

    CO, good evening. Be fair.

    I admit that I thought that JL was a pretentious tosser but I cannot deny the memory of switching on Radio 4 on the morning in question and listening to Brian Redhead announcing his death. Definitely a key date for my generation.

  9. MMMM- Thought we were roughly the same generation!
    If my life depended on it I couldn’t possibly identify when a singer died! Most of themare better off removed in my book, dreadful bloody racket.
    I was in Memphis when Elvis died, what a hoohaa, about time too for the shape he was in. I notice his daughter now lives in Sussex, says volumes!

  10. I was never a fan of JL but remember very well leaving work that day and seeing the newspaper posters and buying the paper. I’m told that a lot of people remember where they were when JFK was assassinated, you obviously didn’t have to be a democrat to have that memory

  11. I always thought the Beatles made good rock as a band but were poor as soloists – especially Paul who persists with his caterwalling.

    I don’t remember JL’s or Elvis’s death at all. Only JFK’s left a mark.

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