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
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?
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Q3.
Which of these events came first?
A
Italy became the present Italian Republic
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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 ...?
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Q5.
In the late 1950s the American Medical Association publicised, and commissioned research on, what?
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?
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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
D
Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws
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