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History Quiz #233

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 1 July 2013

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Q1. In 1803, part of which two Canadian provinces was bought by the USA from France with the Louisiana Purchase, and ceded to Great Britain in 1818?

A
Nova Scotia and Ontario
B
Quebec and Saskatchewan
C
Alberta and Saskatchewan
D
British Columbia and Manitoba
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Q2. What was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organisations, created by a decree issued on 20 December 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky?

A
The Cheka
B
SPECTRE
C
SMERSH
D
Tass
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Q3. Which British Prime Minister introduced "the welfare state" to the UK?

A
Attlee
B
Baldwin
C
Lloyd George
D
Wilson
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Q4. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?

A
William Howard Taft
B
William McKinley
C
Benjamin Harrison
D
Grover Cleveland
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Q5. The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870 in what war?

A
Denmark in the First Schleswig War
B
Austria in the Austro-Prussian War
C
Denmark in the Second Schleswig War
D
France in the Franco-Prussian War
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Q6. US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?

Note: This question was updated in December 2021
A
Japan
B
Panama
C
Iraq
D
The Philippines
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Q7. Spaniards Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antônio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?

Note: This question was updated in March 2022
A
Amazon
B
Sahara
C
Tibet
D
California
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