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History Quiz #119

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 25 April 2011

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Q1. What name was given to an amateur archeologist's find of gold and silver treasures dating back 1400 years in England in September 2009?

A
The Staffordshire Moorlands
B
The Staffordshire Terrier
C
The Staffordshire China
D
The Staffordshire Hoard
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Q2. Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010?

Note: This question was updated in August 2019
A
The Champs Elysees, Paris
B
Pall Mall, London
C
Broadway, New York
D
Saint Mark's Square, Venice
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Q3. US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?

A
Troopergate
B
Watergate
C
Iran-Contra affair
D
Travelgate controversy
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Q4. On 8 April 1933, the state government of Western Australia held a referendum on which subject, in which 68% of the 237,198 voters voted in favour?

A
Providing an aboriginal reservation
B
Introducing daylight saving
C
Starting Sunday trading
D
Seceding from the Commonwealth of Australia
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Q5. What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?

Note: This question was updated in September 2021
A
Napoleonic invasion, 1803-1805
B
French invasion of Wales, 1797
C
Norman conquest under William the Conqueror, 1066
D
German Invasion ("Operation Sealion"), 1940
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Q6. Which of these events happened first in American history?

A
Civil War
B
Declaration of Independence
C
Custer's Last Stand
D
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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Q7. What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?

A
Underground mining operations
B
The building of the Aswan Dam
C
They were bought and moved to the USA
D
Sand dunes were covering them
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