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History Quiz #664

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 4 October 2021

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Q1. Which is the oldest identified era of activity by homo sapiens and relatives?

A
Bronze Age
B
Palaeolithic
C
Iron Age
D
Jurassic
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Q2. Who was Prime Minister of the UK on 28 March 1979, when the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence, forcing a general election that was won by Margaret Thatcher?

A
Edward Heath
B
Harold Wilson
C
Alec Douglas-Home
D
James Callaghan
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Q3. What concept was described and highlighted in a 1983 book edited by European-British historian Eric Hobsbawm and British Africanist Terence Ranger?

A
Pizza effect
B
Invented tradition
C
Imagined community
D
Folklorismus
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Q4. How did US president William McKinley die in 1901?

A
Plane crash
B
Skiing accident
C
Land mine explosion
D
Assassination
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Q5. What is notable about the date Friday 15 October 1582 in Western history?

A
It was the first day observed under the Gregorian calendar
B
John Dee revealed the occult Enochian language
C
The first play by William Shakespeare was staged
D
The Douay-Rheims Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate into English, was published
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Q6. Which of these was a ruler of the Aztec empire?

A
Ataturk
B
Montezuma
C
Santa Anna
D
Nicholas
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Q7. A celebrated case in 1734 in England concerned Judith Defour, found guilty of murdering her two-year old daughter. What was the reason she gave?

A
She needed to sell the child's clothes to buy gin
B
The child cost too much to keep
C
The child would not stop crying
D
Her current man did not like the child
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