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History Quiz #176

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 28 May 2012

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Q1. Which city, originally a monastic settlement founded by Saint Finbarr in the 6th century, built on the River Lee, became a major point of Irish emigration to North America after the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s?

A
Stoppa
B
Cork
C
Khap
D
Bungh
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Q2. A "land run" into which current state of the USA began at noon on 22 April 1889, when an estimated 50,000 people lined up to race to claim 160 acre (0.65 km2) pieces of the available 2 million acres (8,000 km²)?

A
Alaska
B
Montana
C
California
D
Oklahoma
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Q3. Over several weeks after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power on February 7, 1990, the constituent republics of the USSR held their first competitive elections. How many republics were there?

A
15
B
10
C
8
D
4
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Q4. Which country set up the "Committee on Public Information" from April 1917 to June 1919 to run a propaganda campaign, and told citizens to seek out spies, which led to the creation of "patriotic organizations"?

Note: This question was updated in September 2022
A
Great Britain
B
Germany
C
USA
D
France
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Q5. When did the United Kingdom convert to decimal currency?

A
25 March 1949
B
29 December 1963
C
15 February 1971
D
1 January 1988
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Q6. In which year was the first robbery for which it is known that Jesse James was responsible, of the Davies's County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri, during which Jesse shot and killed the cashier, Captain John Sheets?

A
1815
B
1722
C
1869
D
1925
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Q7. After the Parthenon had stood in Athens for over 2,000 years it was destroyed in 1687 by which two countries?

A
Greece and England
B
Venice and Turkey
C
Russia and Turkey
D
Greece and Persia
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