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History Quiz #791

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 11 March 2024

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Q1. Mexican Independence Day, September 16, remembers a day in which year?

A
1503
B
1912
C
1810
D
1962
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Q2. Why is the US city of Pittsburg so named?

A
It is named after Baron Pitt of Hampstead, a British civil rights campaigner & politician
B
It is in the centre of a number of coal mines
C
It is named after Midshipman Robert Pit, who was the first to sight the land
D
It is named after William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Q3. What event in Spain on 30 July 1749 led to a Royal Proclamation by King Ferdinand VI in October and subsequently to royal intervention by the new Bourbon king, Charles III, in 1765?

A
The end of the War of the Austrian Succession
B
Arrest of up to 12,000 Romany
C
Ferdinand V married Barbara of Portugal
D
Declaration of the War of the Seven Reductions
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Q4. Countries are variable in conducting a census of their populations, the count often being associated with taxation needs as was one prime example in 1086, the Domesday Book in England. What century are censuses thought to have been first carried out in England's neighbour, France?

A
18th
B
14th
C
19th
D
16th
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Q5. Erik the Red was convicted of killing both Thorgest (after a dispute over a shovel) and Valthjof (who had killed some of his slaves) and banished from Iceland. He led a group of approximately 500 settlers to settle in what country?

A
Canada
B
Greenland
C
Scotland
D
Mexico
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Q6. Who was said to have interceded to save the life of Captain John Smith, was later taken hostage and held at Jamestown, married John Rolfe, came to England and died at Gravesend in 1617?

A
Little Sun
B
Minnehaha
C
Hinemoa
D
Pocahontas
Select from the options above.
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Q7. What was a reason behind the establishment of the World Health Organisation (WHO)?

A
A global tuberculosis and malaria epidemic
B
Health concerns for refugees from Palestine
C
Disease rife in Europe in the 1940s
D
A series since 1851 of international health conferences
Select from the options above.
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