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History Quiz #832

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 23 December 2024

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Q1. Which supertanker carrying 120,000 tons of crude oil was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967, resulting in Blackburn Buccaneer planes dropping forty-two 1,000lb bombs on it?

A
The Marie Celeste
B
The Exxon Valdez
C
The Torrey Canyon
D
The Andrea Doria
Select from the options above.

Q2. An English physicist in 1913 demonstrated the first justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of what?

A
Composition of the Sun
B
Protons
C
Stellar nucleosynthesis
D
Atomic number
Select from the options above.

Q3. Benjamin Franklin founded America's first what in Philadelphia in 1736?

A
University
B
Library
C
Fire-fighting company
D
Stove factory
Select from the options above.

Q4. In 1948 Australia and New Zealand both enacted legislation formally defining and establishing what?

A
Rights of returning World War II servicemen and women
B
Citizenship
C
A professional joint fire service
D
Free trade in sheep
Select from the options above.

Q5. The father of Charlemagne, who was later to become a major force in Europe and Holy Roman Emperor, seized the Frankish throne from what dynasty in 751 CE?

A
Carolingian
B
Merovingian
C
Desiderius
D
Umayyad
Select from the options above.

Q6. What war was described as "the equivalent of two bald men fighting over a comb"?

A
Falklands War
B
Korean War
C
Six Day War
D
Seven Years' War
Select from the options above.

Q7. What name was given to the statues dating from 210 BCE, which include warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians belonging to Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China, discovered in 1974 by local farmers near Xi'an?

A
The Plastic Crowd
B
The Terracotta Army
C
The China Mob
D
The Tea Set
Select from the options above.
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