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

Florence

Turin

Milan

Rome

2 - What was the last Republican city to fall to the Nationalist in the Spanish Civil War?

Zaragoza

Murcia

Toledo

Valencia

3 - Friedrich Barbarossa died in 1190, to the great relief of Saladin, while travelling through Asia Minor on crusade. On which Crusade was this?

1st Crusade

2nd Crusade

3rd Crusade

5th Crusade

4 - What Chinese dynasty did the Manchu minority establishes?

The Song dynasty

The Qing dynasty

The Ming dynasty

The Yuan dynasty

5 - 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

6 - Of which ancient civilization is the mural below typical?

The Egyptians

The Romans

The Phoenicians

The Minoans

7 - Which of the following was never part of the Britsh Empire?

Zanzibar

Dijbouti

Malta

Cyprus

8 - Which crusade founded the Latin empire in Constantinople?

The second crusade

The third crusade

The fourth crusade

The fifth crusade

9 - How did the rule of Charles V of Spain end?

He was murdered

In a civil war

He was deposed by his son

He abdicated

10 - What did the Battle of the Plains of Abraham decide?

The Boer War.

The fate of the Jewish resistance to the Roman Empire.

The fate of French colonialism in North America.

The War of Texas Independence.

11 - Who is this man?

Cheing-kai Sheck Ho Chi Minh Mao Zedong Pol Pot

12 - Which Russian tzar was killed in his bedroom on March 11, 1801?

Alexandre I

Paul I

Peter III

Peter II

13 - Which of the following US Presidential elections had the closest electoral vote?

2000 (Bush vs Gore)

1976 (Carter vs Ford)

1960 (Kennedy vs Nixon)

1876 (Hayes vs Tilden)

14 - The 25th Dynasty of Egypt originally ruled which foreign empire?

Libya

Nubia

Persia

None, it was native Egyptian

15 - The Swahili culture is the result of a synthesis of the cultures of costal East Africa and colonizers from:

India

Portugal

Indonesia

Arabia

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

Volcano Eruption

Doric Invasions

Invasions from the sea

Internal Factors

17 - When was Malaysia formed?

1925

1948

1963

1985

18 - What was the capital of the Zulus under King Cetshwayo?

kwa-Zulu

Ulundi

Zimbabwe

Bapedi

19 - Brazil has had 3 capitals during its history. Which are they?

Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília

Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília

Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

Salvador, São Paulo and Brasília

20 - At what city did King Henry IV of Germany submit on his knees to the authority of Pope Gregory VII in 1073?

Canossa

Lyons

Milan

Clermont

 

  

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