History Quiz #186
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 6 August 2012
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Q1.
Which supertanker carrying 120,000 tons of crude oil was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967, resulting in Blackburn Buccaneer planes dropping forty-two 1,000lb bombs on it?
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Q2.
What did the British nickname the V1 rocket during the London Bitz during World War II?
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Q3.
The World Trade Centre complex that was in New York City's downtown financial district until 2001 was made up of how many buildings when the last was built in 1985?
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Q4.
In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
Note: This question was updated in February 2023
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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Q5.
What was named after American frontiersman James Bowie?
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Type of formal neckwear
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Q6.
What, the largest of its type at the time, was destroyed by fire at Alexandria in the first century BCE?
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Q7.
What name was given to a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005?
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