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History Quiz #268

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 3 March 2014

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Q1. Which of these ships is the largest?

A
HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
B
HMS Endeavour, used for James Cook's first Pacific voyage, 1768-71
C
The "Golden Hind", captained by Sir Francis Drake for his global circumnavigation, 1577-1580
D
RRS Discovery, used by Robert F. Scott & Ernest Shackleton on their journey to the Antarctic, 1901
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Q2. France has officially been an Empire under two people from which family?

A
Bonaparte
B
Bourbon
C
Daniels
D
Rye
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Q3. When was Vatican City, the smallest independent sovereign state in the world, established?

A
2008
B
1378
C
1961
D
1929
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Q4. Which country voted in November 2012 to work to become the 51st state of the USA?

A
Nicaragua
B
Belize
C
Honduras
D
Puerto Rico
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Q5. The Gunpowder Plot, planned for 5 November 1605, was an attempt by a group of Catholics to blow up the English parliament and which monarch?

A
Henry VIII
B
James I
C
William I (William the conqueror)
D
Victoria
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Q6. What secret organisation of Irishmen in the Scranton Anthracite Mining district of Pennsylvania 1865 - 1875, was in violent conflict with the mine owners?

A
Kitty O'Sheas
B
Molly Maguires
C
Molly Malones
D
Annie Lauries
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Q7. Deliberate use of concentration camps and starvation for civilians as a military policy marked which of these?

Note: This question was updated in August 2023
A
The War of the Worlds
B
The French Revolution
C
The War of the Gargantuas
D
The second Boer War
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