History Quiz #217
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 11 March 2013
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Q1.
According to global media two major, potentially world-changing events took place in the week 6 -13 November 2012. Which were they?
Note: This question was updated in April 2021
A
US Presidential election (4-yearly), and the congress to change China's leadership (10-yearly)
B
US-Japan hold a military exercise, and the CCAMLR establish an Antarctic marine reserve
C
Walt Disney Pictures acquire Star Wars, and Lance Armstrong is declared a drugs cheat
D
The Moon completes its waning fourth quarter, and Halo 4 launches worldwide
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Q2.
Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt?
Note: This question was updated in October 2021
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Q3.
During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
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Q4.
What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
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Q5.
From 2010 to 2012 a series of major earthquakes devastated areas in the South Island of which country?
Note: This question was updated in January 2022
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Q6.
In 1848, the USA offered Spain $100 million, equivalent to around $2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
A
Part of northern Mexico
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Q7.
Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Aérospatiale from France, took its first supersonic flight when?
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