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History Quiz #723

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 21 November 2022

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Q1. What country, an ideal of the "Illyrian Movement" began to become a reality after the 1918 collapse of Habsburg Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I, and was formally renamed (as a "Kingdom") in 1929?

A
Poland
B
Turkey
C
Yugoslavia
D
Portugal
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Q2. Where did Gustav Fabergé from the Baltics establish the jewellery firm in 1842 which later, under his son, created the Fabergé eggs?

A
Moscow
B
Pernau (now Pärnu)
C
Saint Petersburg
D
Paris
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Q3. In January 2013, South African police were deployed to join a massive hunt round the Limpopo River for what?

A
Four escaped prisoners convicted of murder and aggravated robbery
B
A shark
C
10-15,000 Nile crocodiles which had been accidentally released from a farm
D
Survivors after a major flood
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Q4. The USA PATRIOT Act (commonly known as the Patriot Act) of 2001 was enacted in response to what?

A
Desire to increase special recognition of war veterans
B
Terrorist attacks on US soil, using anthrax and suicide planes
C
Request for new Presidential medals
D
Celebration of the millennium
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Q5. Who is credited with the quote, famous in US history: "I have not yet begun to fight"?

A
Benjamin Franklin
B
General Douglas MacArthur
C
Sonny Liston
D
John Paul Jones
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Q6. Until 971 the Southern Han dynasty in southern China kept a permanent military corps of what?

A
Cross-bow archers
B
Elephants
C
Wild boars
D
Rocket launchers
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Q7. What was or Is the Lycian League?

A
An international trading group
B
A system of government
C
An occult group in Germany in World War II
D
A fictional organisation in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle
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