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History Quiz #117

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 11 April 2011

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Q1. What regular feature on page 3 of the Sun newspaper first appeared in November 1970?

A
Stock market information
B
Crossword
C
Picture of a bare-breasted woman
D
Sudoku
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Q2. The national holiday celebrated in the USA on 4 July each year is to commemorate events surrounding which war?

A
American Civil War
B
American War of Independence
C
Korean War
D
World War I
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Q3. Which of these is a legendary creature, similar to the Egyptian sphinx, with the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice?

A
Hippogryph
B
Wyvern
C
Gryphon
D
Manticore
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Q4. What led to Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia variously controlling the Cameroons, Togoland, Ruanda-Urundi, the Kionga Triangle, South West Africa, the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands, Kiautschou, Western Samoa, part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru?

Note: This question was updated in August 2016
A
The end of World War I
B
The end of World War II
C
Formation of the League of Nations
D
Formation of the United Nations
Select from the options above.
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Q5. Trop v. Dulles (1958) was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to do what to US citizens as punishment?

A
Hang them
B
Torture them
C
Revoke their citizenship
D
Beat them with canes
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Q6. What Australian weekly magazine founded by two Sydney journalists, J.F. Archibald and John Haynes, which first appeared on 31 January 1880, ceased publication on 23 January 2008?

A
The Herald
B
The Age
C
Newsweek
D
The Bulletin
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Q7. What name was popularly given to the event on 6 December 1989 when Marc Lépine killed 14 women and injured 10 women and 4 men, now commemorated annually in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women?

A
The Murders on the Rue Morgue
B
The École Polytechnique Massacre
C
The Quebec Murders
D
The Feast of St Stephen
Select from the options above.
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