History Quiz #97
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 22 November 2010
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Q1.
Presidents of the USA Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover had what religious upbringing?
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Q2.
Which of these is a legendary island said to have sunk?
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Q3.
The membership of which British intellectual socialist group formed in London in 1884 included George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Ramsay MacDonald, Emmeline Pankhurst and Bertrand Russell?
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Q4.
According to the Bible's Book of Genesis, the Five Cities of the Plain near the Dead Sea were Adimah, Zebolim, Zour, Gomorrah and which other?
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Q5.
In the US presidential election, 2000, in which US state was there a controversy over requests for hand recounts of votes that went as far as the U.S. Supreme Court?
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Q6.
The Clipper ship "Dunedin" caused excitement when it arrived in London after a 98 day voyage in 1882. Where had it come from?
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Q7.
Thomas Becket was murdered in which English Cathedral?
Note: This question was updated in March 2017
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