History Quiz #550
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 29 July 2019
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Q1.
In which country was Pol Pot Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge"?
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Q2.
When did the first African American woman take her seat in the US House of Representatives?
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Q3.
When did the Congress of the USA hold its first session in Washington D.C. as the capital of the country?
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Q4.
What multi-venue rock music concert, held on 13 July 1985, was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia?
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Q5.
The Africanised bee, Apis mellifera scutelatta, was introduced by accident in 1957 to which area, where it is now an efficient killer and from where it has cross-bred further and has spread to multiple areas both north and south?
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Q6.
The House of Representatives of which country unanimously voted to become a secular and inclusive democratic republic on 28 May 2008, giving the King 15 days to vacate the palace, to re-open it as a public museum?
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Q7.
The anniversary that commemorates Captain Arthur Phillip's establishing in 1788 the first British settlement as a colony in what became known as Australia, is celebrated on which day every year?
Note: This question was updated in December 2023
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