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History Quiz #150

Ancient and Modern History Quiz for 28 November 2011

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Q1. Bill and Hillary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were investigated as part of what financial scandal by the US Justice Department in 1994?

Note: This question was updated in October 2018
A
Chasewater
B
Watergate
C
Whitewater
D
Chasegate
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Q2. What name was given to the left-leaning military coup that started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy?

A
The Passionate Revolution
B
The Velvet Revolution
C
The Carnation Revolution
D
The Gentle Revolution
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Q3. The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?

Note: This question was updated in May 2019
A
Yobboes
B
Lollards
C
Disestablishmentarians
D
Presbyterians
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Q4. Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?

Note: This question was updated in August 2019
A
Barack Obama
B
Teddy Roosevelt
C
John Kennedy
D
Abraham Lincoln
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Q5. Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?

A
HMS Belfast
B
Repulse
C
Cutty Sark
D
Victory
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Q6. In 1632 the Puritan William Prynne published "Histriomastix", over a thousand pages, showing that ".. (what) ..." were unlawful, incentives to immorality, and condemned by the scriptures, the fathers, modern Christian writers, and the wisest of the heathen philosophers. What were the things?

A
Arranged marriages
B
Sculptures
C
Stage plays
D
Charging interest on loans
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Q7. In what decade was the Korean War?

A
1970s
B
1940s
C
1960s
D
1950s
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