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History Quiz #305

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 17 November 2014

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Q1. Which country was proclaimed an independent republic under the leadership of Bernardo O'Higgins on 12 February 1818 after an army led by him and José de San Martín defeated the royalists?

A
Republic of Ireland
B
Argentina
C
Chile
D
San Marino
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Q2. Where in Europe was the Great February Flood of 1825, the worst natural disaster in its area in the 19th century?

A
The islands of Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney
B
Brittany, France
C
North Sea coast of Germany, and The Netherlands
D
Norway
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Q3. In which year did the space shuttle Challenger explode 73 seconds after lift off?

Note: This question was updated in June 2015
A
1990
B
1984
C
1986
D
2003
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Q4. What was the name given to the irregular mounted troops raised for service in Cuba by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American war?

A
Roughriders
B
Teddy's Cavalry
C
Chindits
D
Cossacks
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Q5. What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?

A
Isfahan, Iran
B
Mosul, Iraq
C
Baghdad, Iraq
D
Aleppo, Syria
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Q6. At the end of his life, from 1094 to 1102, El Cid ruled over which Spanish city?

A
Valencia
B
Gibraltar
C
Burgos
D
Barcelona
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Q7. What state, earlier known as the Bohemian Kingdom and part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time of the Empire's dissolution at the end of World War I, was formed in 1918?

A
Poland
B
Czechoslovakia
C
Lithuania
D
Hungary
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