History Quiz #263
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 27 January 2014
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Q1.
How many different people were Prime Minister of Australia in the first 100 years after it became a Dominion in 1901?
Note: This question was updated in October 2022
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Q2.
In the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th to 13th centuries, what was a "taifa"?
B
An independent Muslim-ruled principality
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Q3.
What is the mythological "xana"?
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Q4.
What type of building in the Roman forum, the largest of its type there, was called "Julia"?
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Q5.
Who were the parents of 5 girls and a boy, born between 1932 and 1940, who were killed by their mother in Berlin on 1 May 1945, before both parents committed suicide?
A
Joseph & Magda Goebbels
C
Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov
D
Benito and Donna Mussolini
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Q6.
On 27 April 2010, the debt rating of which country was decreased to 'junk' status by Standard & Poor's, amidst fears of default by the government?
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Q7.
Who was said to have interceded to save the life of Captain John Smith, was later taken hostage and held at Jamestown, married John Rolfe, came to England and died at Gravesend in 1617?
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