1 Which is the oldest university in the USA, founded in 1636?
Harvard
2 What was the name of the US Mail Service, founded in 1860, that used horses and riders?
The Pony Express
3 What was the second largest city in Britain at the time of the Black Death and now home to the world's greatest football team ....... Rovers?
Bristol
4 What was the original name of New York?
New Amsterdam (Extra point if you put Nieuw Amsterdam)
5 Which was the first country to introduce an old age pension?
Germany in 1891
6 Where was the first Hard Rock Cafe opened?
London
7 What was the first capital of the USA?
Philadelphia
8 What nationality was Karl Marx?
German
9 What structure was over 26 miles long before being demolished in 1989?
The Berlin Wall
10 Name the pandemic that killed almost one per cent of the world's population in 1918
Spanish Flu
