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

Tunis

Cairo

Damascus

Baghdad

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

5 millions

9 millions

15 millions

21 millions

3 - Which modern author is famous for his historical novel about Julian the Apostate?

Gore Vidal

Robert Graves

Rex Warner

Henryx Sienkiewicz

4 - Which US politican shot and killed former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton (who currently appears on the $10 bill) in a duel?

Andrew Jackson

Aaron Burr

John C. Calhoun

Jefferson Davis

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

Khanate of the Crimea

Mughal Empire

Dzungaria

Khalka Horde

6 - 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

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

Transvaal

Orange-Freestate

Natal

Bolland

8 - Which ruler of the 'Rus' conquered the Jewish Turkic state known as Khazaria?

Riurik

Igor

Sviatoslav

Iaroslav the Wise

9 - Ethnike Hetairia was a secret society organized to liberate which region from Ottoman rule in the early 19th century?

Moldavia

Serbia

Bulgaria

Greece

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

Bahrein

Kuwait

Aden

Muscat

11 - Under which Ottoman sultan were the Janissaries finally abolished in 1826?

Mahmud II

Abdulhamid II

Selim III

Mehmet V

12 - Which fortress in the Caribbean was known as the "Gibraltar of the West Indies"?

Brimstone Hill

Romney Manor

Fort Willem

Port de Plaisance

13 - What Islamic dynasty was founded by Sultan Saladin?

The Ayyubid dynasty

The Fatamid dynasty

The Abbasid dynasty

The Almohad dynasty

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

Al-Khwarazimi

Al-Tusi

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Omar Khayyam

15 - Which Roman Emperor allegedly made his horse senator?

Trajan

Heliogabal

Caligula

Diocletian

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

Hejaz

Crete

Palestine

Thrace

17 - From where is the oldest known law code in the Greek world (shown below) originated?

Gortyn, Crete Athens, Attica Sparta, Peloponessos Milete, Asia Minor

18 - How many Dalai Lamas have there been?

13

14

15

16

19 - 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

20 - Which of the following statement is NOT true of Jean Bedel Bokassa, former ruler of the Central African Republic?

He crowned himself Emperor in a ceremony copied on Napoleon I's coronation

He is widely believed to have practised cannibalism, though it was never proven

Born a catholic, he converted to Islam after a meeting with Qadaffi - before converting back a few month later

He believed himself to be descended from Ramses II, Salomon and Saladdin

 

  

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