History Quiz #68
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 3 May 2010
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Q1.
About which conflict did Winston Churchill say "never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"?
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Q2.
The "seven Champions of Christendom" were St George, St Andrew, St David, St Patrick, St Denys, St James and which other?
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Q3.
What term was popularized in the books "The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man" (1962) and "Understanding Media" (1964) by Marshall McLuhan to describe how the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time has heightened human awareness of responsibility?
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Q4.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the last Emperor of which country, ruling from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918?
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Q5.
Where, in 1934, was land distributed to peasants, church property nationalised, the railway taken over by its employees and, in 1938, the property of US and British oil companies confiscated?
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Q6.
The earliest known example of what was built by Micah, according to Judges 17, verse 5?
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Q7.
What ancient people, whose major cities were Tyre and Sidon, founded Carthage?
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