History Quiz #150
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 28 November 2011
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Q1.
Bill and Hilary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were investigated as part of what financial scandal by the US Justice Department in 1994?
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Q2.
What name was given to the left-leaning military coup that started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy?
A
The Passionate Revolution
C
The Carnation Revolution
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Q3.
The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?
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Q4.
Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?
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Q5.
Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?
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Q6.
In 1632 the Puritan William Prynne published "Histriomastix", over a thousand pages, showing that what were unlawful, incentives to immorality, and condemned by the scriptures, the fathers, modern Christian writers, and the wisest of the heathen philosophers?
D
Charging interest on loans
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Q7.
In what decade was the Korean War?
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