History Quiz #242
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 2 September 2013
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Q1.
The last beheading after death carried out in Britain (which was part of the penalty of "hanging, drawing and quartering"), followed conviction for treason of whom?
A
William Joyce, Lord Haw-Haw, 1946
B
Cato Street conspirators, 1820
D
Sir Roger Casement, 1916
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Q2.
Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?
B
The Battle of Bannockburn
C
Battle of Stirling Bridge
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Q3.
What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
A
The Battle of the Coral Sea
B
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
D
The Battle of Trafalgar
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Q4.
In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
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Q5.
The Boxer Rebellion which China officially waged 1900-1901 was against what?
B
Importing opium into China
C
Foreign imperialism and Christianity
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Q6.
When was Nicolae Ceaușescu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
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Q7.
In 1858 Rowland Macy established a new store named "R. H. Macy & Company", where it stayed on the same site for nearly forty years, in which city?
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