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History Quiz #609

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 14 September 2020

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Q1. The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" signed into law in the US state of Arizona on 23 April 2010 to take effect on 28 July 2010, concerns what?

A
Funding for "Neighbourhood Watch" groups
B
Illegal immigration
C
Installation over 10,000 CCTV cameras
D
Harsher penalties for drunk drivers
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Q2. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, what did Kennedy threaten if Khrushchev did not agree to remove missiles from the Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile site under construction in Cuba?

A
A fact-finding mission to explore launching US missiles stationed in Turkey into the USSR
B
Sanctions to prevent export of Russian caviar
C
A "naval quarantine", when the US Navy would inspect all ships arriving in Cuba
D
A mid-Atlantic blockade to prevent all Russian ships crossing
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Q3. Before taking office, both US president George W Bush and his vice president Dick Chaney had been convicted of what?

A
Failing to file an annual company return
B
Tax evasion
C
Insurance fraud
D
Drink driving
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Q4. George Washington became president of the USA in which century?

A
18th
B
17th
C
19th
D
16th
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Q5. What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?

A
Frayed-knot
B
Fearnowt
C
Whistlenow
D
Dreadnought
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Q6. The wreck of which warship, one of the largest in the English navy of King Henry VIII in the first half of the 16th century, was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in October 1982?

A
Andrea Doria
B
Marie Celeste
C
Mary Rose
D
Queen Elizabeth I
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Q7. The first flag for the USA had how many stars on it?

A
20
B
13
C
10
D
50
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