History Quiz #498
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 30 July 2018
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Q1.
Eleven Pacific-rim countries signed what free trade agreement in March 2018?
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Q2.
When Winston Churchill wrote "Before this, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats", which event was he talking about?
A
The Charge of the Light Brigade
C
The Battle of the Bulge
D
The Second Battle of El Alamein
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Q3.
In 1930, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina began a thirty-one year dictatorship of where?
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Q4.
The Wright Brothers' first powered flight, in 1903, took place where?
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Q5.
Set up in 1954 as a merger of smaller groups, the Front de Libération Nationale fought a war for independence from France until 1962, when the French government signed a cease-fire agreement. The FLN became the only legal party in which country?
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Q6.
What are the first words of the US Declaration of Independence?
A
When in the course of human events ...
B
Four score and seven years ago ...
C
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed ...
D
To be or not to be, that is the question ...
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Q7.
Room 40, or 40 O.B., active 1914 to 1919 in the UK, was a forerunner to a complex known as what?
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