History Quiz #195
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 8 October 2012
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Q1.
The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed by 44 nations in 1944, were about what?
D
Setting up the new country of Israel
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Q2.
Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct what from ice?
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Q3.
Where was agreement reached in November 1995 for the document formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 called "The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina", which ended the 3.5 year long war in Bosnia?
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Q4.
What name is given to the murder of 7 people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929?
A
The Saint Valentine's Day massacre
B
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
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Q5.
What land was recorded by the American captain Benjamin Morrell of the schooner Wasp in March 1823, in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica, the existence of which was not disproved until during Antarctic expeditions in the early 20th century?
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Q6.
Where, in 1857, was there a brutal and unsuccessful uprising against British control, with estimates of the number of deaths in the hundreds of thousands?
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Q7.
How many different people were Prime Minister of New Zealand in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1907?
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