The Ultimate History
Boys Revision Quiz
Round One
What do these images
have to do with The
History Boys
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
Q6
Q7
Q8
Q9
Q10
Round Two
Finish the Quotation
Q11
It’s just one ______thing
after another
Q12
Take it, ______ it and
pass it on
Q13
I am far too gone in age
and _____________
Q14
There is a __________
in History
Q15
The _________ certainly
wants it.
Round Three
Guess the Character
Oh! Quelles belles
jambes!
Q 16 – Who is speaking to whom?
Now, who goes home?
Q17 Who is speaking to whom?
One should have targets
Q18 Who is quoting whom?
Never such innocence
Q19 Who is quoting whom?
This is History, not
histrionics
Q20 Who is quoting whom?
Round Four
Anagrams
Q21
ROTHEC
Q22
RIATONSHIS
Q23
IELGRAEFDSCI
Q24
OHYROTD
Q25
NISATL
Round Five
True or False
The Headmaster knew
Philip Larkin
True or False
Q26
Mrs Lintott is divorced
from an accountant
True or False
Q27
The Headmaster’s first
name is Boris
True or False
Q28
Rudge gets into
Corpus Christie
True or False
Q29
Crowther and Lockwood
become magistrates
True or False
Q30
Round Six
Who says this:
Foul, festering, grubbyminded little trollop
Q31
Old Sir, tried and tested
Q32
Think charm, think polish,
think renaissance man
Q33
This is known as
Posner’s reward
Q34
History is women following
behind with a bucket.
Q35
Round Seven
Spot the mistakes
Five words have been replaced in
this passage. Can you work out
what the original words might
have been?
 Mmm,
the important thing is that he has a
role. Say Hardy is writing about the Zulu
wars or later the Boer War possibly, these
were the first battles where men… or
common soldiers…were commemorated,
the names of the lost recorded and
carved on war memorials.
Round Eight
Multiple Choice
Q37 Rudge quotes lines
from a song by
1. Duran Duran
2. Spandau Ballet
3. The Pet Shop Boys
4. Bananarama
Q38 The Head’s subject
is:
1. Geography
2. Mathematics
3. Chemistry
4. Media Studies
Q39 Posner’s parents don’t
mind him singing songs
sung by:
1. Lisa Minnelli
2. Barbra Streisand
3. Gracie Fields
4. Doris Day
Q40 Hector originally
teaches:
1. English
2. French
3. Music
4. History
Q41 Irwin went to
1. Jesus
2. Corpus
3. Oxford for a teaching Diploma
4. Exeter
Round Nine
Literary References
Who wrote the poem?
Q42 Loveliest of trees
the cherry now
Who wrote the poem?
Q43
Not waving but drowning
Who wrote the poem?
Q44 There is some
corner of a foreign field
What device is used here?
Q45 thousands of
marriages lasting a little
while longer
Who wrote the poem?
Q 46 His landmark is a
kopje-crest that breaks the
veldt around
Who wrote the poem?
Round 10
Final Round
The Genius Round
What is important about these
individual words
Q47 Otiose
Q48 Pizza
Q49 Kneeshaw
Q50 Normal
Q51 Henry VIII
Round One - Pictures
• Bike gloves, Hector, groping, facade – Irwin
• Communion, Scripps, Breaking bread
references – Hector
• Holocaust discussion
• Pass the parcel – knowledge
• Golf, Sartre – Rudge
• Brief Encounter
• Hector locks the classroom, Locks out
disturbance / progress
Round 2 – Finish line
1. F***ing – Rudge
2. Feel – Hector
3. Decrepitude –
Hector
4. vacancy –
Headmaster
5. Headmaster - Irwin
Round 3 - Character
1. Posner to Dakin
2. Hector to class
3. Dakin quoting the
Headmaster
4. Lockwood (+
others) quoting
Larkin
5. Lockwood quoting
Round 4 – Anagrams
1. Hector
2. Historians
3. Gracie Fields
4. Dorothy
5. Stalin
Round 5 – True False
1. True – Hull
2. True
3. False
4. False –
ChristChurch
5. True – in PLAY!
Round 6 – Who?
1. Hector
2. Scripps
3. Headmaster
4. Dakin
5. Lintott
Round 7 – Mistakes
Roll – Name
Battles – Campaigns
Men – Soldiers
Lost – dead
Carved - inscribed
Round 8 - Choice
1–3
2–1
3–2
4–1
5–3
Round 9 - Poems
1. AE Housman
2. Stevie Smith
3. Rupert brooke
4. Philip Larkin
5.Thomas Hardy
Round 10 – Genius
1.Pointless – General Studies
2. Better than sex
3. Nietzsche
4. What is “normal”
5. Stalin and Margaret Thatcher