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History Quiz #798

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 29 April 2024

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Q1. When did Circassia, or Adiga Xheku, a land in the North Caucasus along the northeast shore of the Black Sea, cease to exist as a separate land?

A
1864
B
1917
C
1220
D
1815
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Q2. Crimea, over which multiple wars have been fought, was annexed from Ukraine in 2014 by which country?

A
Russia
B
Poland
C
Slovakia
D
Belarus
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Q3. Which of these people was not assassinated between 1900 and 1910?

A
Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt
B
Umberto I, King of Italy
C
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
D
Carlos I, King of Portugal and Luiz Filipe, Crown Prince of Portugal
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Q4. What is the city, founded in the 8th century AD and for more than 400 years a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre for the Islamic world until it was destroyed by the Mongols in 1258?

A
Isfahan, Iran
B
Mosul, Iraq
C
Baghdad, Iraq
D
Aleppo, Syria
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Q5. The Millennium Dam, now known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and built between 2011 and 2020, is on which river?

A
White Nile
B
Blue Nile
C
Awash
D
Limpopo
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Q6. In 1291 a number of mainly alpine European communities formed a protective alliance which with the later addition of others became what is now known as what?

A
Swaziland
B
Switzerland
C
Sweden
D
Swansea
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Q7. British marine biologist William Saville-Kent's work in Australia is credited in the development of which of these?

A
Salmon fishing in Tasmania
B
A national marine research laboratory in Poland
C
Blister and spherical cultured pearls of commercial quality
D
The Parramatta Industrial School for Girls
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