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Interesting Geography and History Questions #3
Can you correctly answer all these geography and history questions?
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1. Which of these landmarks is the oldest?
Angkor Wat: 1100 - 1150 Tower of Pisa: 1372; Machu Picchu: 1450; Taj Mahal 1648
Machu Picchu
Taj Mahal
Angkor Wat
Leaning Tower of Pisa
2. In 1569 Portugal won a naval battle against the Sultanate of Aceh armada. The defending fleet was composed of...
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aceh_(1569)
False - they lost
100 naus *carracks
1 single nau *carrack
100 naus and british fleet smaller crafts
3. The shortest war ever recorded was fought by the UK against the Zanzibar Sultanate for the succession of the Zanzibar crown. Ended with British victory. How long did it last?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War
3 months
38 minutes
4 days
1 year
4. Who were the first people to land in the Americas in the CE?
The first humans are believed to have migrated to the Americas via the then frozen Bering Strait. However in "Modern History", the first society to land in Newfoundland were the Vikings in the year 1000
The Portuguese
The Romans
The Vikings
The Spanish
5. Order the following empires from the oldest to the newest: 1.Aztec; 2.Tuʻi Tonga; 3.Mali; 4.Mongol.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires
4, 2, 3, 1
3, 1, 2, 4
1, 2, 3, 4
2, 4, 3, 1
6. What did Vikings call community meetings for deciding laws and such?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)#:~:text=The%20main%20distinction%20between%20Iceland,period%20and%20the%20Middle%20Ages.
Jarldom
Thing
Meeting
Danelaw
7. It is believed that 1 in ___ men is a descendent of the great conquerer Genghis Khan.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/mar/02/science.research#:~:text=One%20in%20every%20200%20men,as%20the%20great%20Mongol%20leader.
1 000 000
1 000
200
50
8. What misterious event in 1200 BCE affected a great number of civilizations of the time?
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
The Youngest Toba eruption
4.2 Kiloyear Event
The Late Bronze Age Collapse
The Black Plague
9. San Marino is the only country in the world where there are more ____ than people.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita
Streets
Cars
Houses
Sheep
10. Because of lack of written records, it's believed that our knowledge of human history only accounts for about __%.
Modern Humans appeared about 200000 years ago and written records started about 6000 years ago.
3%
97%
50%
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