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?
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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
C
The east coast of Russia
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Q4.
How many sons of Philip IV of France became King?
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Q5.
Early in the 12th century a boy named Astrolabe was born to whom?
B
Pierre Abélard and Héloïse d'Argenteuil
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Q6.
Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
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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
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