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History Quiz #196

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 15 October 2012

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Q1. In 1961 US President John F Kennedy negotiated for the release of the 1,189 survivors out of 1,500 men directed and trained by the USA who had tried to invade which country?

A
Cuba
B
Greece
C
Guatemala
D
Russia
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Q2. According to Greek mythology, who spent eternity in the underworld with food and drink just out of reach?

A
Tantalus
B
Sisyphus
C
Actaeon
D
Timolus
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Q3. The first vice-president of the USA to be elected President, the father of a future President, assistant in drafting the Declaration of Independence and negotiating peace with Great Britain, and architect of vital government loans from the Netherlands, was who?

A
George Washington
B
Lyndon Johnson
C
John Adams
D
Theodore Roosevelt
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Q4. Who is the only president of the USA to serve non-consecutive terms?

A
Lyndon Johnson
B
Grover Cleveland
C
Thomas Jefferson
D
Bill Clinton
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Q5. Until Tony Blair, which of Britain's Labour Prime Ministers was in office for the longest overall time?

A
Harold Wilson
B
James Callaghan
C
Ramsay MacDonald
D
Clement Attlee
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Q6. In 1961 in Paris, the French police attacked a peaceful but illegal demonstration of around 30,000 people, killing between 40 and 200, who were protesting about what?

A
Religious persecution of protestants
B
Increased tax on wine
C
Algerian War
D
Abolition of the death penalty
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Q7. What was the cause of the sinking of the "Lusitania" in May 1915 and the subsequent deaths of 1,198 people?

A
She hit an iceberg
B
She was torpedoed
C
A saboteur blew a hole in her hull with a bomb
D
She was sunk by pirates
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