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?
B
Baron Adolf Nordenskiöld
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2
Q2.
Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42BC near which city in East Macedonia?
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3
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?
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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?
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