History Quiz #496
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Q1. Winston Churchill started his first term as British Prime Minister during which event?
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Q2. What 1918 Act of the US Congress forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the US government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the US government or its institutions with contempt, and allowed the Postmaster General to refuse to deliver mail that met those criteria?
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Q3. The guild known until mediaeval days in London as the Fraternity or Guylde of Our Lady and St. Clement, still exists in the 21st century under what name?
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Q4. During the reign of Ashurbanipal who reigned in the seventh century BC, the Susa-Babylon highway became the first recorded example of what?
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Q5. Which of these is not a name given to the period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964?
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Q6. Which country declared itself to be independent from Great Britain on 2 July 1776?
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Q7. American college student Otto Warmbier died in 2017 after returning from 17 months prison in which country?
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