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History Quiz #376

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 28 March 2016

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Q1. The Balfour Declaration, made by Lord Balfour on behalf of the British Government in 1917, was a promise to do what after World War I?

A
Act as the co-ordinators for a "League of Nations"
B
Provide money to France to erect a defensive line along the French - German border
C
Make Palestine into a "national home" for Jews
D
Scuttle the British navy as an incentive for world disarmament
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Q2. Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrim's activities in Plymouth in 1621?

A
Columbus Day
B
Thanksgiving
C
Halloween
D
Memorial Day
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Q3. In his voyage west for Spain in 1492 what did Christopher Columbus hope to discover?

A
An easy sea route to India and China
B
Unknown lands
C
The east coast of Russia
D
Australia
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Q4. How many sons of Philip IV of France became King?

A
3
B
4
C
2
D
5
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Q5. Early in the 12th century a boy named Astrolabe was born to whom?

A
Saladin
B
Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil
C
Marco Polo
D
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Q6. Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?

A
Iraq
B
Turkey
C
Iran
D
Israel
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Q7. Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?

A
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
B
Sir Horace Walpole
C
Benjamin Disraeli
D
Sir Robert Walpole
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