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History Quiz #532

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 25 March 2019

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Q1. The term "coalition of the willing", to describe military and / or humanitarian interventions for which the UN Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation, was not applied to which of these?

A
The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003
B
The Australian-led INTERFET operation in East Timor
C
The Korean War
D
Possible operations against North Korea during the 1994 stand-off over nuclear weapons
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Q2. Who was the daughter of Mahomet and his first wife Kadijah?

A
Atalie
B
Salome
C
Ruth
D
Fatima
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Q3. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution came about after what event?

A
American Civil War
B
American War of Independence
C
USA entering World War I
D
The assassination of president John F Kennedy
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Q4. Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, known as Cortes, conquered which empire in the Americas?

A
Ottoman
B
Roman
C
Mongol
D
Aztec
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Q5. In which country do these laws apply: the 1975 State Protection Act (Article 10 b), which grants the government the power to imprison persons for up to five years without a trial, and the Law to Safeguard the State Against the Dangers of Those Desiring to Cause Subversive Acts (Article 10 a)?

A
Thailand
B
Fiji
C
Myanmar
D
Pakistan
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Q6. Which German Nazi leader flew solo from Ausberg in 1941 and landed by parachute near Glasgow on a private peace mission?

A
Himmler
B
Goering
C
Goebbels
D
Hess
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Q7. What was the family name of the rulers of Russia from 1613 to 1917?

A
Hapsburg
B
Stroganoff
C
Romanoff
D
Medici
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