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History Quiz #363

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 28 December 2015

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Q1. Who was the first person to sail through the North East Passage north of Russia from Europe to the Pacific Ocean in 1878/79?

A
James Burrough
B
Baron Adolf Nordenskiöld
C
William Barents
D
Henry Hudson
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Q2. Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42BC near which city in East Macedonia?

A
Babylon
B
Baghdad
C
Philippi
D
Jerusalem
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Q3. For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890?

A
The first person to be executed via the electric chair
B
The first person to break out of a prison ringed with barbed wire
C
The first warder to be convicted of murdering a prison inmate
D
The first prison manager to allow conjugal visits
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Q4. Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?

A
Organising a popular music festival in aid of African drought victims
B
Baking over 2,000 scones in one day
C
Being the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons
D
Being the first woman to hold the record for tossing the caber
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Q5. On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?

A
American Civil War
B
World War II
C
World War I
D
Hundred Years' War
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Q6. 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what?

A
Eating thre world record number of hot dogs
B
Setting off a bomb in Jakarta's Ritz-Carlton Hotel
C
Sailing around the world solo
D
Free-jumping from the Empire State Building
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Q7. What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?

A
Anne
B
Catherine
C
Jane
D
Mary
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