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History Quiz #292

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 18 August 2014

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Q1. When UK scientist Sir Timothy Berners-Lee finalised and implemented the first world wide web page on the internet at the end of 1990, for whom was he solving a problem?

A
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, USA
B
European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Switzerland
C
Wide Area Information Servers, Massachusetts, USA
D
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Illinois, USA
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Q2. What was the first finished product to roll off Henry Ford's moving assembly line established in 1913?

A
Camera
B
Ship
C
Car
D
TV set
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Q3. Hebrew Noah, Babylonian Atrahasis and Sumerian Ziusudra were all known in their respective Epics for having which common preoccupation?

A
Competition sport
B
Marital disharmony
C
Home brewing
D
An overwhelming flood
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Q4. In Greek legend, who, the last king of Troy, was the father of Hector and Paris?

A
Hercules
B
Laomedon
C
Priam
D
Neoptolemus
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Q5. The War of the Pacific 1879-1883 was fought where?

A
Western South America
B
West Indies
C
New Zealand
D
Western Australia
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Q6. In which country did the USA provide information to a 1963 coup, against General Abd al-Karim Qasim the then Prime Minister of the country?

Note: This question was updated in August 2015
A
Libya
B
Iraq
C
Egypt
D
Somalia
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Q7. The Treaty of Brussels, the precursor to NATO and a basis for WEU, was signed on 17 March 1948 by Belgium, France, the UK, the Netherlands and which other nation?

A
Denmark
B
Luxembourg
C
Portugal
D
United States
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