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Which Old Testament figure is famed for his drunkenness?

At which battle in 490 BC did an Athenian army repulse the first Persian invasion of Greece?

Hadrian was born in AD 76. In which year did he become emperor?

When is the Iron Age usually said to have begun in Britain…?

Located in 1985, the wreck of the Titanic lies how far below the surface of the Atlantic?

Which Greek goddess was the personification of the Earth?

What is the writing material known as ‘vellum’ made from?

What name is given to the chalk ridge that once provided a land connection between England and France?

The death of which monarch led to the accession of George I?

In Greek myth, who carried the heavens on his shoulders?

In which year did the eruption of Mount Vesuvius bury Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and mud?

At which narrow pass did a small Greek force including 300 Spartans fight a heroic rearguard action against a substantially larger Persian army in 279 BC?

Which stone circle is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney?

In honour of which god were the Ancient Olympics held?

What name is given to the now-submerged geographical feature which allowed early humans to gain access to the Americas?

Julius Caesar raided Britain in 55 and 54 BC. But which emperor began the Roman conquest in earnest in AD 43?

Which Anglo-Saxon king’s stronghold in Athelney, Somerset, was investigated in Time Team’s first ever episode?

Once the capital of the Kingdom of the East Angles, which busy Suffolk port was carried away by coastal erosion?

Zeus is the king of the gods. But who was his queen?

The arrival of which 42,900-ton German battleship in Norwegian waters posed a grave threat to Allied shipping convoys in January 1942?