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History Quiz #440

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 19 June 2017

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Q1. What is the name of the superocean surrounding a southern hemisphere prehistoric supercontinent?

A
Panthalassa
B
Pangaea
C
Gaia
D
Iapetus
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Q2. When war was declared on Germany on 3 September 1939, at the start of what was to become World War II, who were the Allies?

A
Poland and the UK
B
France, Poland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa
C
France, Poland and the UK
D
The UK on its own
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Q3. What does the acronym "MOAB", the title of the bomb deployed by the USA against IS tunnels and caves in Afghanistan in April 2017, stand for?

A
Massive Ordnance Air Blast
B
Mother of All Bombs
C
Military Outsize Airburst Bomb
D
Military Over-All Biggie
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Q4. What was the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, signed by Charles VI, Habsburg ruler over a swathe of European territories and the Holy Roman Emperor, designed to achieve?

A
Centralising of the Seventeen Provinces of the Holy Roman Empire
B
A General Church Council with authority superior to that of the Pope
C
The Habsburg hereditary possessions could be inherited by a daughter
D
Removal of the independence of the French clergy
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Q5. Which of these, one of the two most powerful battleships built by Germany in World War II, was destroyed while hiding near Tromsø on the Norwegian coast by RAF bombers?

A
Royal Oak
B
Bismarck
C
Graf Spee
D
Tirpitz
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Q6. Roland, a military commander in the late 8th century in the army of Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and eventually Holy Roman Emperor, died at the Pass of Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees. According to Charlemagne's biography who killed him?

A
Angevins
B
Spanish Moors
C
Basques
D
His stepfather, Ganelon
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Q7. In 1994 the international Wassenaar Agreement replaced CoCom, with the aim of contributing to regional and international security by preventing the export of what, in quantity or of a kind which could lead to destabilising accumulation?

A
Materials which can be used to make nuclear weapons
B
Chemical weapons
C
Arms, and goods or IT which can be used as weapons, including by terrorists
D
Oil
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