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History Quiz #89

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 27 September 2010

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Q1. Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?

A
Organising a popular music festival in aid of African drought victims
B
Baking over 2,000 scones in one day
C
Being the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons
D
Being the first woman to hold the record for tossing the caber
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Q2. John Calvin, 16th century French theologian, was the autocrat of which city for 13 years, where he improved the city and provided harsh punishments for moral transgressions?

A
Rouen
B
Avignon
C
Basle
D
Geneva
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Q3. Between 1955 and 1970, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Angela Davis were significant people in which movement in the USA?

A
Industrial Revolution
B
Civil Rights Movement
C
Rock 'n Roll
D
Feminism
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Q4. Who were the British fighting in the Crimean War at the time of the Charge of the Light Brigade?

A
Persians
B
Russians
C
Spanish
D
Irish
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Q5. The states now called North and South Carolina were originally one province, Carolina. Why was it so named?

A
After Queen Caroline of the Netherlands
B
After Princess Caroline of Monaco
C
After Carol, the mistress of Oliver Cromwell
D
After Charles I of England
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Q6. Which of these is the name of a gallows, last used in 1783, that used to stand near what is now Marble Arch in London, England?

A
Holburn
B
Tyburn
C
Winchester
D
Kensington
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Q7. The refugee camps Shatila and Shabra, the scenes of a massacre in 1982, were in which country?

A
Lebanon
B
Iraq
C
Egypt
D
Malta
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