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History Quiz #322

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 16 March 2015

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Q1. Who was the first person to be officially designated Prime Minister in Britain?

A
Sir Robert Walpole, 1721
B
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1905
C
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1547
D
William Pitt ‘the Younger', 1783
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Q2. Estonia, New Zealand, Italy and Austria share what?

A
They have all been president of the UN Security Council in 2003-2014
B
They have declared themselves to be nuclear free zones
C
Sign language is one of the official languages
D
They have astronauts in a space station in 2015
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Q3. In February 1939 Madison Square Gardens was the venue for a rally some 20,000 strong in vociferous support of what or whom?

A
Boycotting Nazi Germany
B
Hitler and Nazi Germany
C
Presidential hopeful Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D
Evangelist Billy Graham
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Q4. What term, used by US President George W. Bush in November 2002, came to refer to the countries who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent military presence in post-invasion Iraq since 2003?

A
Attack Force
B
Friends of the USA
C
Coalition of the Willing
D
The Alliance
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Q5. Prolonged deep-sea diving was first made possible in Europe by the invention of a diving bell in what century?

A
18th
B
17th
C
19th
D
16th
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Q6. August 23 1991 saw what?

A
The first stone thrown down from the Berlin Wall
B
Sergei Bubka breaks the world record for men's pole vault
C
Debut of the World Wide Web as a publicly available service on the internet
D
The raising of the Russian flag over the Kremlin signalling the end of the Soviet Union
Select from the options above.
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Q7. What did the Congress of Vienna, September 1814 to June 1815, achieve?

A
The basis for European economic union
B
An alliance and a method of countering Napoleon's rising power
C
A stable and benign equilibrium of power among the territories of Europe
D
A system for face to face formulation of international treaties
Select from the options above.
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