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Which Germanic god is closely connected to the pagan festival of Yule?

Which Persian king did Alexander defeat at the Battle of Gaugamela?

In which year was Pompeii buried under pumice and ash following the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius?

Which king was the last to live at the Palace of Westminster?

In which year is Tutankhamun thought to have been born?

Which powerful queen was co-ruler of Ancient Egypt for 22 years from around 1473 BC?

Which day in 1940 saw the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, bringing the so-called Phoney War to an end?

To which debtors’ prison was Charles Dickens’ father sent in 1824, when the novelist was 12 years old?

Denmark’s current monarch, Queen Margrethe II, traces her lineage back to which 10th-century king?

In which Roman fort were the wooden tablets found that contain the earliest handwriting ever discovered in Britain?

Roughly how long ago did the earliest human migrations begin?

What name is given to the king of Rome’s gods?

Dated c.14,000–300 BC, which is the earliest major culture of prehistoric Japan?

Which historical figure is said to have observed undersea life from a submersible glass sphere in 332BC?

Which English king defeated a 230-strong French fleet at the Battle of Sluys in 1340?

First discovered in Iraq, and dating to the third millennium BC, the Royal Game of Ur is a precursor to which modern board game?

Which city was the capital of Ancient Egypt during the Old Kingdom?

Which legendary leader established the Xia dynasty in c.2070 BC, inaugurating dynastic rule in China?

The historic boundary-marker known as the London Stone, indicating the downstream limits of the City’s jurisdiction, is located at which point on the Thames Estuary?

On which Scottish island would you find the Neolithic henge and stone circle known as the Ring of Brodgar?