1 - Who wrote the Confessions?

Tertulian

Gregory The Great

Augustine

Ambrose

2 - Which famous poet and scientist was employed by the Seljuqs to reform the Islamic calendar?

Al-Khwarazimi

Al-Tusi

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Omar Khayyam

3 - What had the Spartan youth to do to prove they were adults?

They had to take place in a special initiation battle

They had to go to a temple on a countryside and dress themselves like bears

They had to kill three helots without getting caught and cut off a hand of the deads to prove it

Steal cheese without getting caught from a temple

4 - Which ruler united the Khmer Empire?

Jayavarman II

Hsinbyushin

Ramkhamhaeng

Yasovarman I

5 - Who was the first woman elected to the British House of Parliament?

Lady Astor

Bessie Braddock

Margaret Thatcher

Constance Markievicz

6 - How many million immigrants came to the United States between 1880 and 1900?

5 millions

9 millions

15 millions

21 millions

7 - What country shipped out the first ever shipment of frozen meat in 1877, and to which country?

The United States, to France

France, to the United Kingdom

Argentina, to France

British Canada, to the United Kingdom

8 - Which general succeeded Alexander the Great in Thrace?

Lysimachus

Antigonus

Seleucus

Ptolemy

9 - Who wrote the books about Old Shatterhand and Kara Ben Nemsi?

Karl May

Friedrich Schiller

Günther Grass

Karl Wolfowitz

10 - What was the the capital of Dacia?

Ecbatana

Alma Ata

Sarmisegetuza

Coste?ti

11 - Who wrote the first version of the Dutch constitution as used today?

Willem I van Oranje-Nassau

Van Oldernbarneveldt

Thorbecke

De Witth

12 - Which was the first Boer state in South Africa?

Transvaal

Orange-Freestate

Natal

Bolland

13 - Who was surnamed the 'Father of History'?

Hesiodus

Herodotus

Thucydides

Xenophon

14 - Who was the leader of the Russian provisional government after the fall of the Romanovs?

Vladimir Lenin

Stalin

Prince Lvov

Georgii Plekhanov

15 - In 19th century American politics, what was a 'Loco-Foco?'

A derrogatory term for a Democrat

A New York Whig

A follower of President Millard Fillmore

Somebody who opposed the Mexican-American war

16 - Which Egyptian Queen is shown here?

Nefertiti Cleopatra Hatshepsut Tiye

17 - Where was the first UN Security Council meeting held?

New York

London

Paris

Geneva

18 - What country saw native religion fused with Christianity in 1865's 'Hau Hau' movement?

Mexico

Japan

Indochina

New Zealand

19 - Who rode alledgly through the streets of Coventry nude to protest against the high taxes imposed by her husband on his tenants?

Lady Anne

Lady Godiva

Boedicea

Isolde

20 - Which of the following ports was seized by the British in 1839 and eventually became a British colony?

Bahrein

Kuwait

Aden

Muscat

 

  

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