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History Quiz #317

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 9 February 2015

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Q1. Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?

A
Medici
B
Hapsburg
C
Saxe-Coburg
D
Romanoff
Select from the options above.
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Q2. In what year did the airship Graf Zeppelin complete the first round-the-world flight in September, and inaugurate the first commercial transatlantic service in October?

A
1935
B
1929
C
1938
D
1919
Select from the options above.
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Q3. The coldest temperature recorded in Canada was -63 °C (-81.4 F) on 3 February 1947; where was it?

A
Upper Stewiacke, Nova Scotia
B
Eureka, Nunavut
C
Snag, Yukon
D
Vancouver, British Columbia
Select from the options above.
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Q4. The early Great Wall of China built in the years following 221 BCE, new or by reinforcing existing remains of walls, by the Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was intended to protect the newly unified empire against whom?

A
The hordes of Genghis Khan
B
The Xiongnu people from the north
C
The Huns to the west
D
European traders
Select from the options above.
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Q5. Which of these did not happen during the period from the end of 1990 to end of 1991?

Note: This question was updated in October 2016
A
Restoration of the monarchy in Spain
B
Dissolution of the USSR
C
Re-unification of Germany
D
End of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait
Select from the options above.
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Q6. Which US state was the first to secede from the Union, in 1860, leading to the American Civil War?

A
Maine
B
California
C
South Carolina
D
New York
Select from the options above.
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Q7. The first electric what were installed in 1914 in Ohio, USA?

A
Traffic lights
B
Civil Defence sirens
C
Fire alarms
D
Washing machines
Select from the options above.
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