History Quiz #747
Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 8 May 2023
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1
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
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2
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?
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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3
Q3.
Which is the guillotine most popularly associated with?
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4
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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5
Q5.
When the USSR dissolved in 1991, which Russian territory became an exclave?
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6
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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7
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?
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