History Quiz #296
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 15 September 2014
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Q1.
The Nazi Party saw which of these people as one of its leading proponents?
Select from the options above.
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Q2.
The December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 en route from London to New York and at the time over Lockerbie, Scotland, is recorded as having been blown up by whom?
A
A discontented Scottish Nationalist
C
A USA technician who had lost a pay dispute
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Q3.
What was the capital of Italian East Africa between 1936 and 1941?
Select from the options above.
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Q4.
In September 1905 the government of New South Wales, Australia, voted to buy 1,000 miles of netting in attempt to control what?
Select from the options above.
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Q5.
In which country was there a civil war between 1936 and 1939, which was won by General Franco's forces?
Select from the options above.
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Q6.
In 1985 the Greenpeace protest ship "Rainbow Warrior" was bombed and sunk by French agents in which harbour?
Select from the options above.
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Q7.
According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
Select from the options above.