History Quiz #728
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 26 December 2022
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Q1.
What was the name of the Roman road that stretched from Dover, Kent, almost to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, a distance of 322 km (200 miles)?
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Q2.
In April 2009 citizens of the Swiss canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes in the Alps voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation banning what?
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Q3.
Who was the president of France and Co-Prince of Andorra from 2012 to 2017?
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Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
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Q4.
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour was a gift in 1886 to the USA by whom?
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Q5.
Ulysses is the Roman name for which Greek king?
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Q6.
Herodotus, one of the earliest writers now to be called a historian, lived when?
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Q7.
Where was "Postimees", the first regular newspaper published in the language of the indigenous people of what became the independent country, founded in 1857?
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