History Quiz #45
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 23 November 2009
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Q1.
Who formally became Emperor of Japan in 1926 and became its constitutional monarch in 1946?
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Q2.
What was the name of an iron case containing gunpowder that was used to destroy a gate or palisade?
Note: This question was updated in May 2014
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Q3.
What was the first airship to cross the Atlantic, in 1919?
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Q4.
What, the first of its kind in Britain, was established by John Tate in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1489?
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Q5.
Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement?
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Q6.
According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
Note: This question was updated in August 2014
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Q7.
Which propagandist broadcaster during World War II was jailed for 10 years in October 1949?
Note: This question was updated in November 2013
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