History Multiple Choice #1 - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
Which event triggered World War One? The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
87%
How many wives did Henry VIII have? 6
84%
Which of the following was a result of Mao's "Great Leap Forward", a plan to remake China's agrarian economy? A famine that killed 36 million people
80%
In terms of weapons, what is a pike? A very long spear
79%
Which of these countries did the Soviet Union NEVER invade? Sweden
78%
Who was the first person to orbit the Earth? Yuri Gagarin
78%
Why did whalers hunt sperm whales? For oil to make candles
76%
Where did Zoroastrianism originate? Persia
73%
The spinning jenny was one of the earliest innovations in the Industrial Revolution. What was a spinning jenny? A device for making cloth
66%
Which of the following was NOT originally invented in China? Concrete
66%
What was the Byzantine Empire? A continuation of the Roman Empire
63%
Which of these writers was NOT English? Oscar Wilde
56%
What does a dendrochronologist use to establish dates? Tree rings
55%
Which of these cities was NOT founded by the Romans? Alexandria
50%
When was the last time Moscow was ever captured by a foreign power? By Napoleon in 1812
38%
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