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History Quiz #132

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 25 July 2011

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Q1. What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed (as a "Kingdom") in 1929?

A
Poland
B
Turkey
C
Yugoslavia
D
Portugal
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Q2. What was the first of the World Trade Centre buildings to be rebuilt after 9/11?

A
5 World Trade Center
B
The Marriott World Trade Center (a hotel)
C
6 World Trade Center for US Customs and the US Commodities Exchange
D
7 World Trade Center
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Q3. The Easter Rising, an insurrection staged during Easter Week 1916 with the aim of ending British rule, was where?

A
Ireland
B
India
C
Australia
D
Ceylon
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Q4. The Singapore Declaration issued in 1971 and the Harare Declaration issued in 1991 are considered to be the two most important documents to what union of nations?

A
Channel Islands
B
United Nations
C
Commonwealth of Nations
D
European Union
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Q5. The Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg), fought on 17 September 1862, the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil has what other distinction in US history?

A
The bloodiest single-day battle
B
The last battle when muzzle-loading rifles were used
C
The first battle on American soil
D
The first battle to use iron cannon balls
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Q6. Which of these historical periods in Britain is most recent?

A
Tudor
B
Elizabethan
C
Stuart
D
Regency
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Q7. Why was the Eiffel Tower built?

A
Monument to fallen French soldiers
B
Memorial to Gustave Eiffel
C
As part of the 1889 World's Fair
D
Radio transmission tower
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