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History Quiz #506

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 24 September 2018

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Q1. Longstanding conflict in an island in southeast Asia/western Pacific became eventually full-scale armed clashes finally mediated by New Zealand in 1997, and resulted in the establishment of what?

A
The Chatham Islands Independent Territory
B
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
C
The Free Mainland
D
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea
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Q2. When the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette came to France and married Louis, later crowned Louis XVI, how old was she?

A
18
B
3
C
14
D
36
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Q3. Which of these events came first?

A
Italy became the present Italian Republic
B
American Revolution
C
French Revolution
D
Russian Revolution
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Q4. In 2018 the leader of North Korea travelled outside his country, unusually, and met the leaders of several other countries, including South Korea, China and ...?

A
Germany
B
UK
C
USA
D
Myanmar (Burma)
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Q5. In the late 1950s the American Medical Association publicised, and commissioned research on, what?

A
Problems from leprosy
B
The potentially harmful effects of the use of drugs in sport
C
The need for a vaccine for smallpox
D
A virus, which they named Conficker
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Q6. Which department store headquartered in Piccadilly, London was founded as a grocery store in 1707?

A
Marks & Spencer
B
Harrods
C
Selfridges
D
Fortnum & Mason
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Q7. By what 1803 agreement did the USA buy 828,000 square miles (2.14 million km²), approximately a third of all present mainland USA territory - and doubling its territory at the time - stretching diagonally from Montana in the north to New Orleans in the south?

A
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
B
Seward's Folly
C
Louisiana Purchase
D
Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws
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