1. At which location did King John meet the barons to sign the Magna Carta?

2. Which secret society was Gavrilo Princip a member of when he assassinated the Archduke?

3. What modern sporting event is named after the legend of a messenger following the Battle of Marathon?

4. Which Ottoman leader commanded the forces that captured Constantinople in 1453?

5. What was the official codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?

6. In which lunar region did the Apollo 11 Lunar Module 'Eagle' land?

7. The Indian Independence Act of 1947 partitioned British India into which two independent dominions?

8. What was the first message ever sent over ARPANET, even though the system crashed mid-transmission?

9. At which research institution was Tim Berners-Lee working when he invented the World Wide Web?

10. The bankruptcy of which major investment bank in September 2008 is seen as the climax of the financial crisis?

11. Who was the Pope that commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

12. What astronomical observation by Galileo proved that not everything in the universe revolved around the Earth?

13. What event caused Emperor Ashoka to renounce violence and convert to Buddhism?

14. What was the primary chemical process used in the Bessemer converter to turn iron into steel?

15. The raid on which monastery is traditionally considered the start of the Viking Age?

16. What is the name of the only confirmed Viking archaeological site in North America?

17. For which pharaoh was the Great Pyramid of Giza built?

18. What did the Apollo-Soyuz mission symbolize for Cold War relations?

19. Which European nation provided critical naval and land support to the Americans at the Battle of Yorktown?

20. Which device did the transistor replace, allowing electronics to become much smaller and more efficient?