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History Quiz #423

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 20 February 2017

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Q1. What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?

A
Hampton Court
B
Kensington Palace
C
Balmoral
D
Clarence House
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Q2. After watching US president Barack Obama giving a speech, David Letterman commented that it was nice to have a president who could pronounce which word?

A
Disarmament
B
Hurricane
C
Iraq
D
Nuclear
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Q3. Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister of what country from 1972 to 1975?

A
Fiji
B
New Zealand
C
Australia
D
South Africa
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Q4. What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programmes in the mid 1930s with the goals of "the 3 R's": Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?

A
Depression delights
B
The New Deal
C
Peace and Love
D
Watergate
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Q5. Beginning in 1966 and proposed formally in 1980, Britain and Argentina looked at a "lease-back" deal over the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas. What brought this to an abrupt halt?

A
The Falkland Islanders turned the deal down
B
The death of Argentina's President
C
The Falklands War 1982
D
The assassination of Britain's Treasury Secretary, who had been negotiating the deal
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Q6. According to some Christian tradition, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?

A
The Supremes
B
Three blind mice
C
Three coins in a fountain
D
Three wise men
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Q7. What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?

A
Pussy Bank Occident
B
Piggy Bank Accident
C
Dogger Bank Incident
D
Horsey Bank Underspent
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