History Quiz #129
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 4 July 2011
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Q1.
What country that adopted its federal constitution in 1848 finally joined the United Nations in 2002?
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Q2.
What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?
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Q3.
Thomas Cranmer held what position during the reign of Henry VIII, between 3 December 1533 and 4 December 1555?
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Archbishop of Canterbury
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Q4.
Which colony centred at Fort Christina (now in Wilmington, Delaware) that included parts of the now US states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania was established in 1638, and in 1655 surrendered and was taken over by the Dutch?
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Q5.
During a speech in January 1992, then-president George H. W. Bush mentioned that he wanted to "make American families a lot more like ... which family? ... and a lot less like the Simpsons".
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Q6.
What name was given to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France from the 16th to the 18th centuries, many of whom emigrated in the late 17th century, who were inspired by the writings of John Calvin in the 1530s?
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Q7.
What historical period in Europe is commonly dated from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 15th or early 16th century, marked by the rise of nation-states and the beginnings of European overseas expansion?
Note: This question was updated in July 2022
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