History Quiz #789
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 26 February 2024
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Q1.
What event between 1857 and 1859 was centred on the cities of Meerut, Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Oudh, Jhansi and Gwalior?
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Q2.
Winchester was the capital of which Anglo-Saxon kingdom?
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Q3.
Who was the first person to sign the American Declaration of Independence?
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Q4.
According to Greek mythology, who spent eternity in the underworld with food and drink just out of reach?
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Q5.
Shortly after the King's acceptance of the Magna Carta in England in 1215 several still-dissatisfied barons invited an incursion from where?
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Q6.
Which railway, started in 1937, partly completed in 1949, fully completed in 1956, runs approximately 1,110 km (690 mi) north-south from border to border across its country?
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Q7.
When did the Catholic Church Inquisition declare that heliocentrism (the theory that the Earth, the other planets and the universe all revolve around the Sun) was "formally heretical" as well as "foolish and absurd" in philosophy?
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