History Quiz #219
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 25 March 2013
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Q1.
The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928, with a loss of over 100 lives, particularly of women and children after it was abandoned, had a major impact on the second International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1929?
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Q2.
One of the first actions taken in China's "Great Leap Forward" was a campaign initiated by Mao Zedong, the first President, to eliminate what birds?
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Q3.
What did Napoleon Bonaparte I establish in 1804, a measure which has had worldwide effect?
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Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
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Q4.
What group did the UK join in 1973?
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Q5.
What association, currently of 27 members, holds over just 7% (in 2011) of the global population and generates approximately 20% of global GDP when thought of in terms of purchasing power parity?
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Q6.
Until the introduction of the Euro on 1 January 2002, which country had the lira as its basic currency unit?
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Q7.
What is the early English name for the road that went from London through Lincoln and York to Hadrian's Wall?
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