1 - 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

2 - How many Dalai Lamas have there been?

13

14

15

16

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

Vladimir Lenin

Stalin

Prince Lvov

Georgii Plekhanov

4 - Who lost the Battle of Tannenburg (or Grunwald) against Poland-Lithuania in 1410?

The Russians

The Mongols

The Teutonic Knights

The Magyars

5 - What were chinampas?

The system of floating gardens that allowed societies in the Valley of Mexico to create an agricultural surplus

The priestly elite that dominated Mayan city-states at the height of Mayan civilization

Small figurines representing ancestors that were the focus of local religious life in Andean cultures

The name given by peoples in the Valley of Mexico to barbarian invaders from the desert regions of Northern Mexico

6 - Which of the following lands was not part of Muhammad Ali's Egyptian Empire in the early 19th Century?

Hejaz

Crete

Palestine

Thrace

7 - Who was defeated in the battle of Sandwich in 1217?

The Flemish

The Irish

The French

The Scots

8 - Which US President was nicknamed 'Old Kinderhook?' His supporters formed 'OK Clubs' and are sometimes credited with the origin of the phrase 'okay.'

Andrew Jackson

James K. Polk

Martin Van Buren

Millard Fillmore

9 - Ronald Reagan made his first political appearence in 1964, giving a speech for which conservative Republican presidential candidate?

Nelson Rockefeller

Richard Nixon

Barry Goldwater

George Wallace

10 - Where was the first British colonial railroad?

India

South Africa

Jamaica

Canada

11 - To which Spanish kingdom does this flag belong?

Castile Aragon Leon Navarro

12 - Which future American President helped deliver food help to occupied Belgium during the First World War?

Theodore Roosevelt

Woodrow Wilson

Harry S. Truman

Herbert Clark Hoover

13 - Which Arab capital was founded in 969 CE by the Fatimids?

Tunis

Cairo

Damascus

Baghdad

14 - Which Egyptian Queen is shown here?

Nefertiti Cleopatra Hatshepsut Tiye

15 - What was the last Mongol state to be conquered by a foreign power?

Khanate of the Crimea

Mughal Empire

Dzungaria

Khalka Horde

16 - Who is held to have christianized Axum (Ethiopia)?

King Ezana

King Rastafari

King Shiazana

King Agabe

17 - With which region of South Asia is the early 19th Century empire of Ranjit Singh associated with?

Punjab

Kerala

Bengal

Assam

18 - Which of the following founders of Hellenistic kingdoms was not a general under Alexander the Great?

Ptolemy I of Egypt

Seleucus I of Syria

Attalus I of Pergamum

Antigonus I of Macedonia

19 - What was an Emporion?

An agrarian colony

A trading post

A trading colony

A Greek neighbourhood in an Eastern city

20 - Who was the last truely Egyptian Pharao before the conquest of Alexander the Great?

Djedhor

Hakor

Nakhtnebef II

Ahmose II

 

  

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