History Quiz #469
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 8 January 2018
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Q1.
When was the Domesday Book compiled?
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2
Q2.
English couple Fred and Rosemary West were famous as what?
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3
Q3.
A popular vote in Switzerland in November 2009 approved banning the building of what in the country?
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Q4.
In 1983 the official length of one metre was established as what?
A
The length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second
B
The length of a pendulum having a half-period of one second
C
One ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant through Paris
D
1 650 763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of krypton-86 in a vacuum
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Q5.
A child's skull found in 1829 in Engis, Belgium, (labelled Engis 2) was eventually recognised as the earliest remains of what to be found?
A
Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals
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6
Q6.
Which of these is a Chinese dynasty?
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Q7.
Who was the head of the Vichy Government at the end of World War II?
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