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Choose the right answer for these various history questions.
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Last updated: January 24, 2021
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1. Which fictional character did Wilbert Awdry create?
Thomas the Tank Engine
Rupert the Bear
Paddington Bear
Mr Tickle
2. The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which Pharaoh?
He was known as Cheops to the ancient Greeks
Ramesses
Khufu
Khafre
Sneferu
3. What was Couto Mixto?
A Renaissance era ceramic artist
A tiny state between Spain and Portugal
An ancient abandoned Mexican civilisation
An infamous apartment complex in St Louis that was demolished
4. Which poet wrote 'To a Mouse'?
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley"
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
William Shakespeare
Emily Dickinson
5. What was unusual about the Chinese emperor Wu Zetian?
She was the only woman to hold the title Huangdi
He was the only emperor to resign
He was the only emperor to be overthrown and executed
He was the only emperor never to marry
She was a woman
6. Why were dangerous 'radium clocks' so popular in the 1920s?
Radium was widely used in many products before people realised its deadly effects
They were more accurate
They glowed in the dark
They were portable
They ran on batteries which never ran out
7. What is Robert Recorde famous for inventing?
He came from Tenby in Wales
The tape recorder
Leaded gasoline
The first mail order business
The equals sign
8. How did King Henry II of England die?
Leprosy
Impaled with a red hot poker
Food poisoning from eating lampreys
Drowning in the English Channel while drunk
9. What was interesting about the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest?
Four countries were tied for first place
Most of the footage for that year was destroyed in a fire
It was the first year the contest was broadcast in colour
Morocco was a participant
10. Which was discovered first?
São Tomé and Príncipe, 1470; the first microbes, 1660s; Uranus,1781; Antarctica, 1820
Antarctica
Uranus
São Tomé and Príncipe
Microscopic organisms
11. Which of these women was nicknamed 'Bloody Mary'?
Mary Tudor
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary of Guise
Mary of York
12. When Samoa became independent in 1962, what title did the head of state take?
It literally means 'Head of the Government', despite Samoa's government is actually a prime minister
Captain Regent
Ngwenyama
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
O le Ao o le Malo
13. What did Edwardian ladies use Deadly Nightshade extracts for?
It often caused their pupils to fall out
To whiten their skin
To get rosy lips
To make their pupils dilate
As a weight loss treatment
14. What were Ziggurats?
The largest was Etemenanki, a temple of the god Marduk, believed to have inspired the story of the Tower of Babel
Pyramidal Mesopotamian temples
Priests/followers of the ancient Egyptian god Ziggur
Religious zealots who whipped themselves during the Black Death epidemic
Large balloons used as obstacles for invading aircraft in WW2
15. Who had the largest funeral attendance of all time?
Princess Diana
Josef Stalin
Abraham Lincoln
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai
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MrBlister
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Level 66
Jan 26, 2021
For those interested, Q9: (a) The four way tie (Spain-France-UK-Netherlands) was in 1969, causing many countries to leave in protest in 1970 (the first tiebreak rules were introduced the same year). (b) The fire happened at Danmark Radio(DR) in the 70's, destroying the footage from the 1964 competition in Copenhagen, as well as many other Danish archives. (c) The first colour competition was in 1968, in London. However, most households would not have owned a colour TV. (d) And the first, and only, time Morocco participated was in 1980, with Eurovision's only Arabic entry (finishing 18th). This caused a lot less controversy than Australia's first participation in 2015. I don't have a source for most of this, but eurovision.tv/events has some details.
HelveticaBold
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Level 71
Jan 26, 2021
Very good! I shall have to make some more eurovision quizzes.
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