History Quiz #51
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Q1. The term "coalition of the willing", to describe military and / or humanitarian interventions for which the UN Security Council cannot agree to mount a full UN peacekeeping operation, was not applied to which of these?
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Q2. What was the dolphin that accompanied vessels near French Pass, a channel used by ships sailing between Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand between 1888 and 1912?
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Q3. Joseph Smith is known as the founder of what movement?
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Q4. The Belgian Revolution, that began after a performance at the Brussels opera in 1830, led to the secession of the Southern provinces of which kingdom to establish an independent Kingdom of Belgium?
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Q5. Which of these battleships did not return to service after being attacked at Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941?
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Q6. According to Virgil's Latin epic poem "The Aeneid", who, during the Trojan War, made a wooden horse and filled it with soldiers that the Trojans took through the gates of Troy?
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Q7. What federation of free cities who had developed trade with foreign countries, formed in the 14th century, had its headquarters in Lübeck?
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