History Quiz #663
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 27 September 2021
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Q1.
Of the first underground railways to open in Europe, which was the next to open after the Metropolitan Railway (now part of the London Underground), in 1863?
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Q2.
Why was Captain William Kidd hanged in 1701?
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Q3.
What was the first US Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies, passed in 1890, that still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the United States federal government?
D
The Parker Brothers Act
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Q4.
In Greek mythology Autolycus, a gifted, cunning and prolific trickster and robber, was the grandfather of Odysseus and which other Greek hero (making them first cousins)?
C
Jason, of the Argonauts
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Q5.
The names of Cannae, Gaugamela and Austerlitz are associated with what?
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Q6.
The first commercial (non-state) flights to carry a civilian to the edge of space happened in which year?
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Q7.
What place was Pliny the Elder (23 - 79 CE) describing in his "Natural History" when he wrote "twice in every day the ocean … hides Nature's everlasting controversy about whether this region belongs to the land or to the sea"?
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