History Quiz #337
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 29 June 2015
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Q1.
Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
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Q2.
Nelson beat Napoleon's fleet, which lost 13 of 17 ships, in which battle in Aboukir Bay on 1 August 1793?
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Q3.
French intelligence service (DGSE) agents Captain Dominique Prieur and Commander Alain Mafart were convicted of the manslaughter of photographer Fernando Pereira and sinking a ship, Greenpeace's the "Rainbow Warrior", in 1985, in which harbour?
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Q4.
Who did the British fight at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879?
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Q5.
When and where did the Austro-Hungarian Schutzkorps first operate?
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1908, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
C
1914, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Q6.
Which company made the Zero fighter that Japan used in World War II?
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Q7.
From 1985 onwards, Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika" in an attempt to modernise the country. What do these two words mean?
C
Openness and Restructuring
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