Each week there is a great themed quiz , so you can include an extra round or simply use as additional quiz content. The answers are on the PDF download, just click the download button at the bottom of this page.

1540 English King Henry VIII annulled his 6 month marriage to his 4th wife Anne of Cleves.
1776 US Congress proclaimed the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain.
1841 Thomas Cook organised the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
1877 The first ever Wimbledon tennis championship began. Men’s singles only.
1885 Louis Pasteur successfully gave an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life.
1913 The world’s official highest recorded temperature was recorded at 134 °F at Death Valley, California.
1917 British battleship HMS Vanguard exploded at Scapa Flow with the loss of 804 lives.
1922 Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100m freestyle becoming the first to swim 100m in under a minute.
1928 Sliced bread went on sale for the first time.
1942 Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the secret annexe above her father’s office in Amsterdam.
1946 The bikini designed by Louis Reard made its debut at the Paris fashion show.
1947 The alleged Roswell UFO incident took place.
1953 Roger Moore married Dorothy Squires.
1954 The BBC broadcast its first television news bulletin.
1957 John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete.
1957 Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were divorced after 6 years of marriage.

1971 Lee Trevino won the 100th British Open.
1975 Cher divorced Gregg Allman 10 days after their marriage.
1982 Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the Queen’s bedroom.
1985 17 year old Boris Becker became the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon.
1990 Martina Navratilova won her record 9th Wimbledon singles title.
1991 Boris Yeltsin was sworn in as first elected President of the Russian Federation.
1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com
1996 The Spice Girls released their debut single ‘Wannabe’.
1996 Dolly the sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
2001 ‘The Office’ created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, made its TV debut on BBC2.
2002 Serena Williams beat older sister Venus to win her first Wimbledon singles title.
2003 Barry White died.
2007 Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson were divorced after a year of marriage.
2012 The Shard in London became the tallest building in Europe.
2016 Pokémon Go was released, the real-world mobile game by Niantic.

Here’s a question that made me laugh but didn’t  make it onto this week’s quizzes and was left on the cutting room floor. (answer on the pdf download)

Why have Elephants got Big Ears?