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History Quiz #258

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 23 December 2013

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Q1. In both world wars, what did the British call German submarines?

A
U Boats
B
V Boats
C
F Boats
D
B Boats
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Q2. What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?

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The Treaty of the Five Tribes
B
The Oklahoma Settlement
C
The Medicine Lodge Treaty
D
The Native American Debacle
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Q3. In the USA in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt formed the Progressive Party when he lost the Republican nomination to William Howard Taft. What was the party also known as?

A
Bull Moose Party
B
Bull Donkey Party
C
Bull Elephant Party
D
Bull Bear Party
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Q4. What year did Jean-Francois Champollion publish the first correct translation of Egyptian hieroglyphs from the Rosetta Stone, the Roman Catholic Church take Galileo Galilei's "Dialogue" off their list of banned books, and Britain repeal the death penalty for over 100 crimes?

A
1922
B
1622
C
1822
D
1422
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Q5. What did a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr., crash into at 9:40 a.m. on 28 July 1945?

A
St Paul's Cathedral, London
B
The Reichstag, Berlin
C
Coventry Cathedral, England
D
The Empire State Building, New York
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Q6. When was the Sami Parliament in Norway first elected?

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1989
B
1996
C
1993
D
1160
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Q7. Sometimes thought of as the Stone of the Hebrew Old Testament Jacob, also known as Jacob's Pillow, the Stone of Destiny, and, most usually, as the Stone of Scone what has it been used for most recently?

A
Religious sacrifice
B
Assisting prophecy
C
The coronation variously of the monarchs of Scotland, England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom
D
The lintel of the Arc de Triomphe
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