1 - Which of these battles was largely a Russian success?

Battle of Warsaw (1920)

Operation Bagration

The Battle of Tannenberg

Operation Mars

2 - From which country did Singapore receive Independence?

Thailand

France

Malaysia

The United Kingdom

3 - How is this medieval coin called?

An écu A Thaler A Florin A Pieterman

4 - Which of the following was the immediate cause of the Indian Mutiny in 1857?

The annexation of Oudh by the British after its ruling dynasty was declared lapsed and incompetent to rule

The replacement of Persian with English as the official legal language in British East India Company territories

The decision to adopt Enfield Rifles with cartridges greased in pig and cow tallow that soldiers had to rip open with their teeth

Britain's establishment of the Hindu Dogra Rajputs as rulers of predominantly Muslim Kashmir

5 - Who was sometime called the "Bohemian corporal"?

Napoleon Bonaparte

George S. Patton

Adolf Hitler

Jimmy Hendrix

6 - What Russian leader often staged elaborate mock battles when he was a boy?

Ivan III (The Great)

Peter I (The Great)

Ivan IV (The Terrible)

Tsar Alexander III

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

kwa-Zulu

Ulundi

Zimbabwe

Bapedi

8 - On which island did the Dutch East India Company establish Batavia as the center of its control of the spice trade in the early 17th century?

Sumatra

Timor

Celebes

Java

9 - Which of the following was not part of the reforms undertaken by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk during his rule in Turkey?

Granting women the right to vote in elections

Breaking up large estates and redistributing land to the peasantry

Replacing Islamic law with Western legal codes as the basis for family law

Adoption of the Latin script for writing the Turkish language

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

Zoroastrianism

Nestorian Christianity

Judaism

Coptic Christianity

11 - When did the last emperor of China ascend the throne?

1685

1895

1909

1923

12 - 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

13 - In which city did German liberals gather in an attempt to establish a united, democratic Germany in 1848?

Berlin

Frankfurt-am-Main

Munich

Weimar

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

august

september

january

july

15 - What political coalition was elected in France in 1936?

The New Politics Coalition

The Popular Front

The Social-Democrats

Labour Reform League

16 - What was the name of the (possibly mythical) first ruling dynasty of China?

Shang

Han

Chin

Xia

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

Libya

Nubia

Persia

None, it was native Egyptian

18 - Which Middle Eastern empire created its own language for government use?

The Safavids

The Mamluks

The Ottomans

The Il-Khanate

19 - Who is this man?

Cheing-kai Sheck Ho Chi Minh Mao Zedong Pol Pot

20 - During the Iranian revolution, a group of Americans was taken hostage at the US embassy by radicals, leading to a serious international incident. For how long were these hostages held?

153 days

356 days

397 days

444 days

 

  

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