History Quiz #264
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 3 February 2014
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Q1.
What name was given to both of the Acts that united the parliaments of England and Scotland in 1707, and those of Britain and Ireland in 1800?
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Q2.
Which monastic order, founded in 529 CE, was based at a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy, until it was sacked in 580, when the monks fled to Rome and then spread throughout Europe?
Note: This question was updated in August 2022
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Q3.
The Treaty of Peace with Japan (also known as the Treaty of San Francisco and the San Francisco Peace Treaty), signed by 49 nations that officially ended World War II, came into effect in what year?
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Q4.
Which official knocks three times on the doors to the chamber of the House of Commons at the state opening of a British parliament?
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Q5.
The borders of which country which became independent in 1971 were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947, when the region became the eastern wing of the newly formed Pakistan?
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Q6.
Which of these is a Thracian shepherd captured by Romans and trained as a gladiator, who escaped and became leader of an army of escaped slaves in the first century BC?
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Q7.
Up to 1974, the title of "Negus" was used for the traditional rulers of what country?
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