1 - Which people occupied the Nile delta during the Second Intermediary Period?

The Hyksos

The Palestines

The Lybians

The Nubians

2 - Rising from political obscurity, this dark horse candidate defeated the famous Henry Clay in the 1844 US Presidential elections on an expansionist platform. In four years, he fulfilled virtually all of his campaign promises by taking the current American southwest from Mexico, forcing Great Britain to give up their claim to the southern half of the Oregon territory, slashing tariffs, and building an independent treasury. He then retired and died a few years later. Who was this protege of Andrew Jackson nicknamed 'Young Hickory' or 'Napoleon of the Stump?'

Martin van Buren

James K. Polk

Lewis Cass

John Tyler

3 - What happened to a Dutch fleet during the Napoleonic wars?

It ran aground after the Dutch destroyed some dykes.

It destroyed itself when several ships fired at each others during the night by mistake.

It was captured by a French cavalry charge.

It was sabotaged in Antwerp harbour by English spies to prevent it from reinforcing the French navy after Napoleon gave the Dutch crown to one of his brother

4 - Who was this famous painter?

Rembrandt Rubens Jan Van Eyck Jordaens

5 - Which European nation briefly conquered Taiwan in the 17th century?

Spain

Japan

The Netherlands

Portugal

6 - Out of the following unsucessful US Presidential candidates, who won the most electoral votes?

Strom Thurmond

George McGovern

Walter Mondale

Eugene V. Debbs

7 - After Japan closed itself from foreigners in the 17th century, from which nationality were the only traders who had the right to trade with Japan in the bay of Osaka?

English

Dutch

Spanish

Portuguese

8 - King Mongkut is known as the Father of Modern ___ ?

Burma

Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

9 - In which country was the use of the longbow first reported?

Wales

Holland

Hungary

Romania

10 - Which of these countries was the first to gain full independence?

Ghana

Nigeria

Ivory Coast

Senegal

11 - Since Italian unification in 1861, which of these cities has never at one point been capital of Italy?

Florence

Turin

Milan

Rome

12 - Approximatively how many people died during the Swiss Sonderbundskrieg?

One hundred

One thousand

Ten thousand

One hundred thousand

13 - From which country did Singapore receive Independence?

Thailand

France

Malaysia

The United Kingdom

14 - What was the official faith of the last independent Yemenite Kingdom before the arrival of Islam?

Zoroastrianism

Nestorian Christianity

Judaism

Coptic Christianity

15 - How did the Mycenian civilisation come to an end?

Volcano Eruption

Doric Invasions

Invasions from the sea

Internal Factors

16 - Where is the oldest university in Europe?

Oxford

Rome

Bologna

Paris

17 - When did the Dutch declare independence for the first time?

1522

1581

1672

1815

18 - Who was president of the United States when the first southern states seceded from the Union?

Franklin Pierce

Abraham Lincoln

William Seward

James Buchanan

19 - In which month of 1945 was an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

august

september

january

july

20 - Which Brazilian president ordered the construction of Brasília?

Getúlio Vargas

Lula da Silva

Juscelino Kubitschek

Fernando Collor

 

  

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