History Quiz #552
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 12 August 2019
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Q1.
Complete Joseph Stalin's famous quotation "One death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a … "
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Q2.
After the signing of the Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913, Mubarak Al-Sabah was recognised by the Ottomans and British as the ruler of the autonomous caza of which city and its hinterlands?
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Q3.
To which organisation, formed in Tennessee in 1865, was Brian A Scates elected as Leader and President in 1867?
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Knights of the White Camellia
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Q4.
According to The Bible, who was the older brother of Moses, who set up a golden calf on Mt Sinai for people to worship?
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Q5.
Members of which family were, at various times, Kings or Emperors of Germany, Austria, Rome, Hungary, Spain and Bohemia between 1273 and 1918?
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Q6.
The first of which make of car came off the assembly line at Fisherman's Bend in September 1948?
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Q7.
According to a fragment of "The Achilleid", written by Statius in the first century AD, when Achilles the mythological Greek hero was born, his mother tried to make him immortal by dipping him in the river Styx. Where was he left vulnerable?
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