History Quiz #463
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Q1. The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a sash, invariably made of wool, which was wrapped around the body and was generally worn over a tunic. Approximately how long was the sash?
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Q2. Who or what were the first living creatures sent up to test the hot air balloon invented and first flown (unmanned) by the Montgolfier brothers in France earlier in 1783?
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Q3. In 1967 during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, the American ship USS Liberty which was monitoring the conflict from international waters in the Mediterranean, was hit with rockets, cannon fire and napalm and then torpedoed. Whose forces carried out the attacks?
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Q4. When was the first Zeppelin, of which the Hindenburg was the last disastrous example in 1937, first successfully flown?
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Q5. What kind of ship was the British ship HMS Hermes, laid down in January 1918, launched on 11 September 1919 but not commissioned until 1923, the first ship of its kind to be designed and built anywhere in the world?
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Q6. Yemen, in addition to being devastated by civil war from 2014, bombings by external allies of the factions, and lack of food, water and medicines, suffered the worst known outbreak of what disease in 2016/7?
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Q7. What two countries were signatories to the first of the two Treaties of Tilsit in 1807?
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