History Quiz #538
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Q1. Where was the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, scuttled by her captain in 1939 to prevent it falling into British hands?
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Q2. Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
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Q3. In May 1869 at Promontory Summit, a "Golden Spike" ceremony was performed to mark the completion of a railway across which country?
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Q4. In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
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Q5. The theatres for which war included Odessa, Yevpatoriya, Sevastopol, Balaklava, Inkerman, and Kinburn?
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Q6. Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?
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Q7. What are "Kraken"?
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