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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?

Note: This question was updated in October 2018
A
Chasewater
B
Watergate
C
Whitewater
D
Chasegate
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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
B
The Velvet Revolution
C
The Carnation Revolution
D
The Gentle Revolution
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Q3. The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?

Note: This question was updated in May 2019
A
Yobboes
B
Lollards
C
Disestablishmentarians
D
Presbyterians
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Q4. Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?

Note: This question was updated in August 2019
A
Barack Obama
B
Teddy Roosevelt
C
John Kennedy
D
Abraham Lincoln
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Q5. Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?

A
HMS Belfast
B
Repulse
C
Cutty Sark
D
Victory
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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?

A
Arranged marriages
B
Sculptures
C
Stage plays
D
Charging interest on loans
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Q7. In what decade was the Korean War?

A
1970s
B
1940s
C
1960s
D
1950s
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