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History Quiz #241

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 26 August 2013

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Q1. Who is the next in this series: Mary Ann Nichols ("Polly") , Annie Chapman ("Dark Annie", maiden name Eliza Ann Smith) , Elizabeth Stride ("Long Liz"), Catherine Eddowes (also known as "Kate Conway", "Kate Kelly" and "Mary Ann Kelly") ... ?

A
Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly", nicknamed "Ginger")
B
Margaret Thatcher ("The Iron Lady")
C
Peggy Lee ("The Queen")
D
Billie Holiday ("Lady Day")
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Q2. US TV personality Jerry Springer was once mayor of which city?

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Cincinnati
B
Mexico City
C
New York
D
Chicago
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Q3. Who emigrated to the USA in 1842, opened a detective agency in Chicago in 1861, and organised the US Secret Service?

A
Robert Peel
B
Allan Pinkerton
C
Eliot Ness
D
J Edgar Hoover
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Q4. Leif Ericson, a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America before Christopher Columbus, established a settlement at Vinland, which has been tentatively identified as being where?

A
New York
B
Newfoundland
C
Rhode Island
D
Mexico
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Q5. What Spanish city became famous in the middle ages for swords and fine steel?

A
Bilbao
B
Toledo
C
Seville
D
Valencia
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Q6. According to Greek mythology, Penelope was whose faithful wife?

A
Odysseus
B
Horatio
C
Julius Caesar
D
Hamlet
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Q7. In which country, independent since 10 October 1970, have there been four coups: two in 1987 (when the military began ruling directly or heavily influencing governments), one in 2000 and one in late 2006?

A
Samoa
B
Fiji
C
Vanuatu
D
Australia
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