History Quiz #513
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 12 November 2018
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Q1.
What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed (as a "Kingdom") in 1929?
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Q2.
In what country, with considerable mineral and coal wealth and so abundantly fertile it has been described as a jewel of Africa, did the inflation rate during 2008 skyrocket to 231,150,888.87%?
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Q3.
In 2017, SpaceX, the company headed by the inventor Elon Musk, did what?
A
Sent a spacecraft to the International Space Station
C
Conducted the first successful re-launch and landing of the first stage of an orbital class rocket
D
Launched a commercially viable nitrogen-powered vehicle
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Q4.
Evidence has been found in which cave, that modern man (homo sapiens) may have reached South-East Asia at least 60,000 years ago?
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Q5.
What religion was the temple complex of Angkor Wat built, in the early 12th century, to serve?
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Q6.
What was the Second League of Armed Neutrality (or the League of the North) formed in 1800 or 1801, designed to do?
A
Protect fishing rights in Scandinavian waters
B
Protect free trade with France against British policy to restrict it
C
To ring fence northern countries against involvement in impending British naval wars
D
To ring fence northern countries against involvement in impending Central American wars
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Q7.
In 1993, in the course of the wars during the breakup of Yugoslavia, a 15th century bridge was destroyed in which city (now the largest financial centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina)?
Note: This question was updated in November 2022
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