History Quiz #107
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 31 January 2011
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Q1.
Betty Lou Oliver held a long-standing Guinness World Record for what event that occurred at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?
A
A fastest time in the New York marathon
B
Giving birth to the heaviest baby recorded
C
The longest survived fall in an elevator
D
Obtaining the largest payout in a New York City lottery
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Q2.
Ex-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plays which musical instrument?
Note: This question was updated in October 2017
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Q3.
What motto, coined by Thomas J. Watson while managing the sales and advertising departments at the National Cash Register Company became a motto for IBM?
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Q4.
What relationship had the Sword of Damocles to Damocles?
A
He was killed by it in battle
C
It was discovered by him
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Q5.
Which ancient country to the south west of the Caspian Sea had rulers called Deioces, Phraortes, Cyaxares and Astyages?
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Q6.
Where was ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair born?
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Q7.
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
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