History Quiz #297
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 22 September 2014
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Q1.
Who is the next in this series: Mary Ann Nichols ("Polly") , Annie Chapman ("Dark Annie", maiden name Eliza Ann Smith) , Elizabeth Stride ("Long Liz"), Catherine Eddowes (also known as "Kate Conway", "Kate Kelly" and "Mary Ann Kelly") ... ?
A
Mary Jane Kelly (called herself "Marie Jeanette Kelly", nicknamed "Ginger")
B
Margaret Thatcher ("The Iron Lady")
C
Peggy Lee ("The Queen")
D
Billie Holiday ("Lady Day")
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Q2.
In 330 AD, Constantine the Great, Emperor of Rome, moved the capital from Rome to where?
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Q3.
How many military conflicts have been generally given the name of World War?
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Q4.
Which inn at Cheapside near Friday Street (where, it is said, Shakespeare, Johnson and friends met frequently), was destroyed by the Great Fire of London?
B
Queen Victoria Public House
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Q5.
When did St Francis of Assisi found the Order of the Friars Minor?
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Q6.
Who nailed a paper with 95 theses as a basis for debate with Friar John Tetzel to a church door at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517?
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Q7.
The explorer Abel Tasman discovered Australia and New Zealand in what year?
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