Dan Snow's History Hit Quiz!

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fingers on buzzers for a very special History Hit end-of-year treat.

Tricky expert questions, history in the headlines, historical fact or fiction? It can only be the History Hit Big Quiz of 2022 - a seasonal test where you can pit your wits against our in-house history brains, or just sit back, grab a glass of whatever you fancy, and enjoy a fact-filled competition, chaired by Quizmaster supreme, Dan Snow.

Everyone is welcome - from history know-it-alls to the whole family. Who can tell the difference between Mary Tudor and Marie Antoinette; the battles of Bosworth and Bunker Hill; Cleopatra’s needle and the Washington Monument?

We’re all living through history, now let’s find out who’s been paying attention!

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:05.3	2022.
0:07.0	It's certainly been a historic year.
0:09.6	Most of them are.
0:10.7	But today, we are going to try and extract
0:12.9	every ounce of factual fun we can
0:16.4	for a turbulent 12 months.
0:18.2	CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:21.2	So, we've seen the continuing effects of pandemic,
0:24.0	a brutal war in Eastern Europe.
0:25.9	The death of Britain's longest-lived monarch,
0:28.8	who've lost his own conspiracy in Germany
0:30.6	to bring back the second Reich, which I did not have
0:32.6	on my bingo card for this year,
0:34.3	just some of the developments we've seen all over the world.
0:37.8	There's also been a host of historic anniversaries,
0:39.8	new ideas and new discoveries
0:41.6	that have got historians and history fans talking online at home,
0:46.6	and most importantly, in the pub.
0:48.3	Now we're going to find out if our two teams of top history experts
0:51.4	have been paying attention to historical nuggets
0:53.9	the last 12 months.
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