History Quiz #419
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 23 January 2017
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Q1.
What was one of the ways in which Romulus established Rome?
A
Made a treaty with the neighbouring Sabine community for wives
B
Killed his grandfather, Numitor, King of Alba Longa
C
The abduction of the Sabine women
D
Agreed to co-rule Rome and Alba Longa together with his grandfather
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Q2.
What tourist facility, occupying more than 85 acres, opened in Anaheim, California, in 1955?
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Q3.
What organisation financed Henry Hudson's voyage when he explored much of what is now Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay in 1610?
C
Virginia Company with the British East India Company
D
Dutch East India Company
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4
Q4.
In 1961 16 leading people in their field signed the Morges Manifesto, which was succeeded by what?
B
The National Audubon Society
D
International Monetary Fund
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Q5.
The flag of which country, consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, white and blue (almost identical to that of the Netherlands), was first used in 1845 and officially adopted on June 23, 1972?
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Q6.
Where was the so-called Black War fought between the mid 1820s and 1832?
B
The Waikato, New Zealand
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Q7.
Since 2005, of whom or what does the name "Katrina" most often remind people in New Orleans, USA?
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