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History Quiz #848

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 14 April 2025

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Q1. Which great city was founded in Russia in 1703?

A
Saint Petersburg
B
Moscow
C
Astrakhan
D
Novgorod
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Q2. Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase, if legend is to be believed?

A
"Stand and deliver"
B
"Forward, men"
C
"Put your back into it"
D
"Injuns ahead"
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Q3. In 1610, English explorer Sir Henry Hudson explored which large inland sea in the north of Canada?

A
Hudson Bay
B
Hudson Estuary
C
Hudson Creek
D
Hudson Reserve
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Q4. Of up to 20 major extinction events identified in Earth's history, which is considered to have caused the greatest loss of species?

A
Triassic-Jurassic 200 mya
B
Pre-Cambrian 542 mya
C
Cretaceous 66 mya
D
Permian-Triassic at the end of the Permian period 251 mya
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Q5. Which was a name in the 19th century for the area now known as the Mekong Delta?

A
Saigon
B
The Republic of Vietnam
C
Cochinchina
D
Khmer Krom
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Q6. Which Irish Republican, an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was elected to the UK Parliament while leading the 1981 hunger strike to protest against the removal of Special Category Status?

A
Kieran Doherty
B
Bobby Sands
C
Michael Devine
D
Patsy O'Hara
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Q7. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965?

A
Brunei
B
Burma
C
Papua-New Guinea
D
Singapore
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