History Quiz #444
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 17 July 2017
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Q1.
Which city has been by turns, since 1320, Lithuanian, Polish-Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Russian, German, Polish, part of the USSR, and Belarussian?
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Q2.
The invasion of which country by Germany signalled the start of World War II?
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Q3.
During the 16th century Christian priests together with Spanish or Portuguese soldiers and adventurers destroyed almost all of the written "paper" records of what civilisation?
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Q4.
Where was the 2009 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting held?
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Q5.
What opened to the public in 1779 next to the Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria?
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Q6.
What was the first building in London to be erected on a steel frame, which was opened in 1904?
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Q7.
In 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten was killed when a IRA bomb exploded where?
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