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1. Timothy has gone back in time to the year 1937 and has arrived at the opening of a new cartoon film by a person called Walt Disney. The film is about a princess who is being chased by a jealous queen and who lives in hiding for a while in a forest with seven little miners. What was the title of this film?
2. Timothy gets back into his time machine and he goes back to the year 1953. He lands on the top of the highest mountain on earth which has just been climbed for the first time ever by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. What was the name of this mountain?
3. Timothy gets into his time machine and travels further back in time until he lands on the deck of a large ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It is 15th April 1912 and the ship has struck an iceberg and is, sadly, beginning to sink and the passengers are being loaded into lifeboats. What was the name of this ill-fated passenger liner?
4. Timothy has taken his time machine even further back in time and he has arrived in England during a great battle being fought at a place near Hastings. The two armies are led by King Harold and William, Duke of Normandy. In which year did this battle take place?
5. Timothy takes his time machine through time and space and lands on the moon on July 20th 1969. He lands at the same time as the very first space mission which landed humans on the moon. What is the name of the man who was first to walk on the surface of the moon?
6. Timothy took his time machine to the year 1666. It was Sunday 2nd September and Timothy had landed in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, London, England. It was in this building that night that something started which ravaged the city for several days and destroyed almost 80 percent of London. What was it that started that fateful night?
7. Timothy jumps into his time machine and travels a very long way back in time. His landing spot is on Salisbury Plain in the county of Wiltshire, England. He sees a circular setting of large standing stones within some earthworks. Timothy is very impressed. What do you think he is looking at?
8. Timothy travelled in his time machine to the year 1687 and he arrived in the city of London in England where he met a great scientist called Isaac Newton. It was during this year that Isaac had put forward his theory of gravity and he told Timothy that he had developed his laws of gravity by watching something falling to the ground in his garden in Lincolnshire. What did Isaac tell Timothy he had seen falling?
9. Timothy travels in his time machine to a small town in Warwickshire called Stratford-upon-Avon. The year is 1582 when he arrives and in this town Timothy meets a young man who has just got married to a lady called Anne. The man was later to become a playwright and poet and was to be considered by many people as the greatest playwright of all time. Who do you think Timothy met?
10. Timothy boarded his Time Machine and travelled back in time. He landed in the city of Florence in Italy in the year 1506 where he met a man who was a painter, a sculptor, an engineer, an inventor and an architect. This great man had painted a picture which has become known as The Mona Lisa. Who did Timothy meet?
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