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History Quiz #426

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 13 March 2017

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Q1. What was the immediate reason for riots in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, in April 2007?

A
Estonia's joining the European Union
B
Redesign of the Estonian flag
C
Relocation of a bronze monument to USSR soldiers fallen in World War II
D
Release of the IT application Skype
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Q2. What did the explorer Karl Mauch discover in 1871 while looking for King Solomon's mines and the biblical land of Ophir?

A
Great Zimbabwe, a great ruined walled city in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe
B
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
C
Malapa Fossil Site, now part of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site
D
Meroe, one of the wealthiest cities of the ancient Kingdom of Kush.
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Q3. In which country, which was neutral in World War II, was there a revolution which deposed the monarchy in 1910, then a military coup d'état in 1926, followed by a right-wing dictatorship?

A
Portugal
B
Spain
C
Great Britain
D
China
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Q4. What is the international GATT agreement concerned with primarily?

A
Trains and Transport
B
Tariffs and Trade
C
Trade and Technology
D
Transport and Tourism
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Q5. In the first decade of the 1900s, Henry Ford established the Ford Motor Company in which city of the USA?

A
Hollywood
B
Detroit
C
Las Vegas
D
Tombstone
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Q6. When the New Zealand Minister of Finance in 1944 called an effect of an 1881 Act a ‘blot on our legislation' what was he referring to?

A
A poll tax to deter Chinese immigrants
B
Restrictions on Maori serving in the New Zealand army
C
Capital punishment for murderers
D
Barring women other than property owners from voting
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Q7. In 1898 New Zealand passed what, the first of its kind in the British Empire?

A
An Act proclaiming New Zealand a Dominion within the British Empire
B
An Act giving women the right to vote in parliamentary elections
C
An Act authorising compulsory arbitration between employers and unions
D
The Old-age Pensions Act
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