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History Quiz #747

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 8 May 2023

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Q1. What characterised the two centuries of the Sengoku period in Japan?

A
Drought and crop failures
B
Flowering of calligraphy
C
Civil war and social upheaval
D
Hedonism
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Q2. What voting system for General Elections was first implemented in the Australian colony of Tasmania on 7 February 1856 and introduced to Britain in 1872 by the Ballot Act?

A
Secret ballot
B
Women were entitled to vote
C
Pocket boroughs, small electorates under the control of one landowner, were eliminated
D
Seats in parliament were granted to cities resulting from the Industrial Revolution
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Q3. Which is the guillotine most popularly associated with?

A
Fox hunting
B
Trimming books
C
French Revolution
D
Scientific research
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Q4. Where was the Battle of Salamis fought in 480 BCE?

A
On the river flats at the foot of Mt. Cithaeron
B
At the pass of Thermopylae
C
The Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea
D
In marshes on the Attic Peninsula
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Q5. When the USSR dissolved in 1991, which Russian territory became an exclave?

A
Vladivostok
B
St Petersburg
C
Irkutsk
D
Kaliningrad
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Q6. In the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after Germany conquered Poland in 1939 what happened to Poland?

A
It was assimilated into Germany
B
It was partitioned, between Germany and the USSR
C
A caretaker German government was installed
D
It became a Soviet state
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Q7. Although Chinese emperors had kept a fleet, when needed for waging coastal wars and invading neighbouring lands, when did they first establish a standing navy?

A
1865
B
Late 14th century
C
Early 12th century
D
1924
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