Wednesday, January 01, 2025
2025 anniversary quiz
Here are 25 events celebrating an anniversary in 2025. How many can you identify?
a) established Jan 1675 (350 years): meridian telescopes
b) reigned Jan 1725 (300 years): a Great empress
c) written Jan 1775 (250 years): a comedy of errors
d) buffered Feb 1975 (50 years): City crash
e) reigned Mar 1625 (400 years): lost his head
f) born Mar 1875 (150 years): French Boléroist
g) began Apr 1775 (250 years): loss of Concord
h) born Apr 1775 (250 years): preferred landscape to portrait
i) born Apr 1925 (100 years): ex-Viscount Stansgate
j) founded Apr 1975 (50 years): coding by Gates
k) founded May 1725 (300 years): plug, then taps, then bubbles
l) born May 1975 (50 years): Posh sidekick
m) fought Jun 1950 (75 years): north versus south
n) born Jul 1975 (50 years): subPrime Minister
o) died Aug 1875 (150 years): author of Scandi noir
p) swum Aug 1875 (150 years): continental daytrip
q) born Aug 1875 (150 years): a life in 39 steps
r) opened Sep 1825 (200 years): doing the Locomotion
s) broadcast Sep 1975 (50 years): Lord Melbury comes to stay
t) born Oct 1825 (200 years): the waltzmeister
u) born Oct 1925 (100 years): ferrous lady
v) born Oct 1925 (100 years): Murder She Acted
w) born Nov 1925 (100 years): Liz Taylor's fifth
x) born Dec 1775 (250 years): author on a tenner
y) born Dec 1925 (100 years): Mary's chimneysweep
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