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History Quiz #118

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 18 April 2011

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Q1. What news source operating from the US Department of Defense that publishes daily newspapers for the US Armed Forces serving overseas was first published in November 1861, during the American Civil War?

A
Hail to the Chief
B
War Cry
C
Stars and Stripes
D
The Star Spangled Banner
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Q2. How did US president John F Kennedy die?

A
Land mine explosion
B
Skiing accident
C
Assassination
D
Plane crash
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Q3. What, in Norse mythology, is a series of major events, that includes the death of a number of major gods, a great flood, and the repopulation of the world by two human survivors?

A
Ragarock
B
Ragnarök
C
Ayers Rock
D
Punk Rock
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Q4. The "numbered treaties", a series of eleven treaties signed between the aboriginal peoples and the reigning Monarch (Victoria, Edward VII or George V) from 1871 to 1921, apply in which country?

A
Canada
B
New Zealand
C
Australia
D
India
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Q5. International Workers' Day is observed in many countries of the world on 1 May. What does it commemorate?

A
The achievements of the international labour movement
B
The formation of the first Communist Party
C
The first General Strike, in the UK
D
The sentencing of the Tolpuddle martyrs
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Q6. In an operation headed by Ali Hassan al-Majid (a cousin of then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein), Iraq used the deadly nerve gas Sarin against what minority in 1987 and 1988?

A
Kurds
B
Chechens
C
Romanians
D
Poles
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Q7. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965?

A
Brunei
B
Burma
C
Papua-New Guinea
D
Singapore
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