1,000 trivia questions and answers: history
Questions 101–200 of 1,000. Answer, explanation and source under each one.
History trivia questions 101–150
Q 101London black-cab drivers must pass which famously hard test of London's streets?
- AThe Knowledge
- BThe Circuit
- CThe Atlas
- DThe Grid
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The Knowledge
London cabbies who passed The Knowledge had a larger rear hippocampus, a brain region for spatial memory, and the longer they had driven, the larger it was.
Q 102De quelle ville la guerre de 1546-1547 contre les princes protestants tire-t-elle son nom ?
- ACologne
- BLandshut
- CPassau
- DSmalkalde
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Smalkalde
Vainqueurs, les impériaux imposent l'Intérim d'Augsbourg en 1548, qui laisse aux pasteurs le droit de se marier.
Q 103Which island off Britain, an important centre of the druids, was stormed by the Roman governor Suetonius Paulinus?
- AAnglesey
- BThanet
- CLindisfarne
- DOrkney
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Anglesey
Anglesey's defenders included druids who raised their hands to heaven and screamed curses, a sight that briefly froze the Roman soldiers where they stood.
Q 104A Pan Am flying boat made the first round-the-world airline flight by accident, sneaking home the long way after which event?
- ABattle of Britain
- BInvasion of Poland
- CFall of Singapore
- DPearl Harbor attack
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Pearl Harbor attack
The Pearl Harbor attack cut the Pacific Clipper's route home from New Zealand. It flew west under radio silence and startled a New York control officer by radioing in five weeks after leaving California.
Q 105Which region of China did Japan seize in 1931 after its own officers staged a railway bombing near Mukden?
- AFormosa
- BInner Mongolia
- CShandong
- DManchuria
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Manchuria
Manchuria was turned into the puppet state of Manchukuo in 1932. When a League of Nations commission said it must be handed back, Japan simply walked out of the League.
Q 106Em que cidade vivia a família de Abrão antes de partir rumo a Canaã?
- AUr dos Caldeus
- BNínive da Assíria
- CMari do Eufrates
- DTiro da Fenícia
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Ur dos Caldeus
Dali o grupo saiu em direção a Canaã, mas acabou se estabelecendo em um lugar chamado Harã, onde o pai de Abrão morreu.
Q 107Which New York City mayor did Time name Person of the Year for 2001 after the September 11 attacks?
- AMichael Bloomberg
- BDavid Dinkins
- CBill de Blasio
- DRudy Giuliani
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani was barred by term limits from running again and left office less than four months later. He had first made his name in the 1980s as a US attorney prosecuting Mafia bosses.
Q 108Wie viele Löwen flankieren den sechsstufigen Thron König Salomos?
- A24
- B20
- C16
- D12
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12
In der christlichen Kunst erscheinen diese Elemente häufig auf Darstellungen der Madonna auf dem Löwenthron.
Q 109The steamboat monopoly Cornelius Vanderbilt defied in New York was granted to a Livingston patrician and which inventor?
- AJohn Fitch
- BSamuel Morse
- CRobert Fulton
- DCharles Goodyear
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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton had died before Vanderbilt joined the fight, so the monopoly was by then held by his late partner's heirs.
Q 110Which future president of Kenya was imprisoned by the British after the Kapenguria trial of the early 1950s?
- AJomo Kenyatta
- BDaniel arap Moi
- COginga Odinga
- DTom Mboya
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Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was tried in a remote town near the Ugandan border, chosen because the authorities hoped it would not attract crowds.
Q 111À quelle grande période de l'histoire la peste noire a-t-elle sévi ?
- AMoyen Âge
- BRenaissance
- CTemps modernes
- DAntiquité
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Moyen Âge
Elle frappe au milieu du XIVe siècle ; on la nomme aussi grande peste ou mort noire.
Q 112Disney's Dumbo (1941) was made to recoup losses from which two earlier films?
- APinocchio and Snow White
- BFantasia and Bambi
- CSnow White and Bambi
- DPinocchio and Fantasia
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Pinocchio and Fantasia
Pinocchio and Fantasia, both released in 1940, lost money after the war closed European markets; Dumbo was made cheaply and quickly at 64 minutes and turned a profit for Disney.
Q 113Que promet Aphrodite à Pâris s'il la choisit lors de son célèbre jugement ?
- ALe succès à la guerre
- BL'amour d'Hélène
- CL'immortalité des dieux
- DLe pouvoir royal
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L'amour d'Hélène
Héra offrait le pouvoir royal et Athéna le succès à la guerre ; les deux déesses éconduites vouent ensuite une haine tenace à tous les Troyens.
Q 114Which cavalry commander of the New Model Army went on to rule England as Lord Protector from 1653?
- AThomas Fairfax
- BOliver Cromwell
- CThomas Harrison
- DJohn Lambert
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell's body was taken from Westminster Abbey once the monarchy returned and hanged at Tyburn in 1661, a posthumous execution.
Q 115Which drug, first sold in 1957 for anxiety and trouble sleeping, caused thousands of birth defects?
- APhenobarbital
- BThalidomide
- CChloral hydrate
- DDiazepam
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Thalidomide
Thalidomide was sold over the counter and was also promoted for morning sickness, which put it in the hands of pregnant women. The disaster led many countries to tighten their drug regulation.
Q 116Buddhist meditation reached China in the 2nd century CE by way of which trade network?
- AThe Incense Route
- BThe Amber Road
- CThe Spice Route
- DThe Silk Road
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The Silk Road
The Silk Road: monks and texts travelled its overland routes from Central Asia into Han China, where An Shigao, by legend a Parthian prince turned monk, began translating meditation manuals in 148 CE.
Q 117Quel pays Saladin fait-il conquérir par un de ses frères pour se ménager une terre de refuge ?
- AYémen
- BOman
- CSoudan
- DLibye
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Yémen
Saladin cherchait alors à s'affranchir de son suzerain et trouvait toujours un prétexte pour ne pas rejoindre ses troupes face aux Francs.
Q 118In 2017, what was declared in parts of South Sudan for the first time anywhere in six years?
- AFamine
- BDrought
- CCholera
- DGenocide
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Famine
Famine here was 'man-made', the UN's food agency said, because three years of war had stopped farmers growing crops; a surge of aid ended it within four months.
Q 119Which formation mounted the only German armoured counter-attack on D-Day, halting the advance on Caen?
- A21st Panzer
- BPanzer Lehr
- C12th SS Panzer
- D2nd Panzer
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21st Panzer
The 21st Panzer Division drove into the gap between Sword and Juno that afternoon and pulled back by nightfall; it was the day's only armoured counter-attack.
Q 120Tramite che cosa Ra avrebbe creato gli uomini, secondo il mito della creazione?
- ALacrime
- BSaliva
- CSudore
- DSospiri
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Lacrime
A Ra era attribuita anche la creazione degli animali, delle piante, dei mesi e delle stagioni; il clero di Ptah credeva invece che fosse stato Ptah a creare Ra.
Q 121En quelle année Babylone est-elle inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO ?
- A2019
- B2003
- C2015
- D2011
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2019
L'inscription, un 5 juillet, est intervenue après des années de dégradations liées aux reconstructions puis à l'occupation militaire du site.
Q 122Russia annexed Courland in 1795 as which kingdom was wiped off the map?
- AHungary
- BBohemia
- CSaxony
- DPoland
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Poland
Poland. Courland was a fief of the old Polish commonwealth, so when the Third Partition erased that state the duchy passed to Catherine the Great's empire.
Q 123Which apprentice memorized British textile machine designs, sailed for New York in 1789 and was branded a traitor?
- ANathan Appleton
- BMoses Brown
- CSamuel Slater
- DPaul Moody
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Samuel Slater
Samuel Slater carried the designs in his head because British law banned exporting them. Americans came to call him the father of their Industrial Revolution.
Q 124Which US president ordered air strikes on Libya over a West Berlin disco attack?
- ARonald Reagan
- BGeorge H. W. Bush
- CBill Clinton
- DJimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, who called Gaddafi the 'mad dog of the Middle East', sent the aircraft ten days after the 1986 blast; France and Spain refused to let them fly overhead.
Q 125Which painter of Las Meninas was born in Seville, Andalusia, before becoming court artist to King Philip IV?
- ADiego Velázquez
- BFrancisco Goya
- CJoaquín Sorolla
- DBartolomé Murillo
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Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez was the son of a Seville notary, and most of his paintings ended up in the royal collection that now fills the Prado.
Q 126モハーチの戦いでスレイマン1世に討ち取られたハンガリー王は？
- Aラヨシュ2世
- Bウラースロー2世
- Cジグモンド
- Dマーチャーシュ1世
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Q 127Varney Air Lines, the first United Airlines forerunner to carry airmail in 1926, was based in which state capital?
- AOlympia
- BBoise
- CHelena
- DSalem
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Boise
Boise was a stop on Varney's first contract mail run between Pasco, Washington, and Elko, Nevada, a 1926 flight that United treats as its own birthday.
Q 128Nach welchem Prinzip misst der Laser moderner Kampfpanzer die Entfernung zum Ziel?
- AMASER
- BLIDAR
- CSONAR
- DRADAR
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LIDAR
Zuvor war der Richtschütze auf optische Verfahren wie die Schnittbild- oder Mischbildmessung angewiesen.
Q 129Which consort of the Shang king Wu Ding led armies in person and lies in the only unlooted royal tomb at Yinxu?
- AFu Hao
- BMei Xi
- CDa Ji
- DJiang Yuan
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Fu Hao
Fu Hao's tomb was found intact in 1976 by the archaeologist Zheng Zhenxiang and identified by the name cast on its bronzes. Its 130 weapons bore out the Shang divination records that show her commanding campaigns.
Q 130Welke commissie beval in 1954 aan afzonderlijke ontwikkeling tot nationaal beleid te maken?
- AFagan
- BSchlebusch
- CTheron
- DTomlinson
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Tomlinson
Het rapport adviseerde ook om in tien jaar meer dan R200 miljoen te investeren in de ontwikkeling van zwarte gebieden.
Q 131Co inkwizycja hiszpańska zaczęła wydawać od 1559 wzorem Świętego Oficjum w Rzymie?
- Awłasny przekład Biblii
- Bindeks ksiąg zakazanych
- Ckatalog relikwii świętych
- Ddoroczny edykt o herezjach
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indeks ksiąg zakazanych
Hiszpański spis często różnił się od rzymskiego, a mimo to większość zakazanej literatury krążyła po kraju bez przeszkód.
Q 132Virgil's Aeneid follows a hero who fled the fall of which city to become the Romans' ancestor?
- AMycenae
- BCarthage
- CTroy
- DThebes
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Troy
Troy's survivor Aeneas is Virgil's hero, but the poet died with the epic unfinished and asked for it to be destroyed; his friends refused, and it was published anyway.
Q 133Gertrude Jekyll planted gardens for the houses of which architect, later the planner of New Delhi?
- AEdwin Lutyens
- BCharles Rennie Mackintosh
- CNorman Shaw
- DWilliam Morris
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Edwin Lutyens
Edwin Lutyens was just starting out when he met Jekyll, who had turned from painting to gardens as her eyesight failed; her own house, Munstead Wood, was the first of their joint projects.
Q 134捕虜を分け与えるようサラディンに進言し、のちに4代目スルタンとなった弟は？
- Aアル＝ムアッザム
- Bアル＝アーディル
- Cアル＝カーミル
- Dアル＝アシュラフ
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アル＝アーディル
弟は譲り受けた捕虜を、自分の物だからと言ってすべて解放してみせた。喜ぶ兵士たちの姿を見たサラディンは、捕虜を殺さないことを決心したという。
Q 135Which shoe chain was founded in Topeka in 1956 by cousins Louis and Shaol Pozez?
- AShoe Carnival
- BPayless
- CFoot Locker
- DThom McAn
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Payless
Payless started out as Pay-Less National, a self-service store where shoppers picked budget shoes off the shelves themselves.
Q 136From which material did the ancient peoples of Mexico make solid balls for their ritual ballgame 3,500 years ago?
- ABaked clay
- BLeather
- CCarved wood
- DRubber
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Rubber
Rubber balls dated to about 1600 BC, the earliest known in the world, were recovered from a sacrificial bog at El Manatí.
Q 137Which Rif leader's 1921 victory in Spanish Morocco is known in Spain as the Disaster of Annual?
- AAbd el-Kader
- BAbd el-Krim
- CMuhammad V
- DOmar Mukhtar
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Abd el-Krim
Abd el-Krim's Rifians drove the Spanish back to Melilla; parliament's inquiry into who was to blame was still unfinished when General Primo de Rivera seized power in 1923.
Q 138What did Peter do on hearing 'It is the Lord!' in John 21?
- ARowed for shore
- BFell to his knees
- CJumped into the sea
- DCalled the others
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Jumped into the sea
Jumped into the sea, though he first wrapped his outer garment around him, having taken it off, while the others followed in the boat towing the net.
Q 139In which language did Nehru deliver 'Tryst with Destiny' to the Constituent Assembly on 14 August 1947?
- AHindustani
- BUrdu
- CEnglish
- DHindi
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English
English was the language of the speech, now counted among the great addresses of the 20th century, given in Parliament House in the last minutes of British rule.
Q 140How long is a single U.S. Senate term?
- AEight years
- BFour years
- CTwo years
- DSix years
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Six years
Six years was a Convention compromise between delegates who wanted short terms and those after long ones, among them Alexander Hamilton, who proposed that senators serve for life.
Q 141Which Wyoming town did the Union Pacific found in 1867 and build into one of its main railroad centers?
- ACheyenne
- BEvanston
- CRawlins
- DLaramie
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Cheyenne
Cheyenne. The railroad's chief engineer picked the site on July 4, 1867, and by the end of that year thousands of people were living there.
Q 142Which ancient geometry puzzle, now a byword for attempting the impossible, was proved unsolvable after more than 2,000 years?
- ASquaring the circle
- BTrisecting the angle
- CDoubling the cube
- DProving the parallel postulate
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Squaring the circle
Squaring the circle: building a square with exactly a circle's area, using only compass and straightedge, was shown to be impossible once pi was proved transcendental in the 19th century.
Q 143Barbados and several Caribbean neighbours ban anyone, even children, from wearing what?
- ASleeveless shirts
- BCamouflage
- CHooded tops
- DFlip-flops
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Camouflage
Camouflage is illegal for anyone to wear in Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada and Antigua, and some islands, Barbados among them, make it an offence even to bring camouflage items into the country.
Q 144Adams was the first president to take the oath of office wearing what?
- AA dress sword
- BA full beard
- CA military uniform
- DLong trousers
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Long trousers
Long trousers replaced the knee breeches earlier presidents had worn to be sworn in; Adams had also long since given up the powdered wig of his youth.
Q 145Monte Testaccio, an artificial hill 35 metres high beside the Tiber, is made almost entirely of broken ancient what?
- AMarble statues
- BOlive oil jars
- CClay roof tiles
- DWine goblets
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Olive oil jars
Olive oil jars were smashed and stacked here once emptied, perhaps 53 million of them, and sprinkled with lime to mask the smell of rancid oil.
Q 146Welk dier maakten de Grieken van Anubis, omdat zij het verschil niet zagen?
- AWolf
- BVos
- CHond
- DHyena
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Hond
Anubis kon ook worden afgebeeld als een man op een troon met een was-scepter.
Q 147W którym roku Benedikt Niese próbował dowieść, że Homer wymyślił wojnę trojańską?
- A1846
- B1882
- C1864
- D1901
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1882
Dyskusję podsyciły potem kolejne odkrycia archeologiczne w Mykenach, po których pytano o związki „Iliady” ze światem mykeńskim.
Q 148Qual estudioso alemão julgou impossível de provar a leitura “marido da Terra” para Posídon?
- AErwin Rohde
- BUlrich Wilamowitz
- CHermann Usener
- DWalter Burkert
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Walter Burkert
Para ele, o segundo elemento do nome, “da-”, permanece irremediavelmente ambíguo.
Q 149¿Qué edad no podían haber cumplido las aspirantes al primer grupo femenino de cosmonautas?
- A25
- B30
- C22
- D28
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30
También debían ser paracaidistas, medir menos de 1,70 metros y no pasar de 70 kg de peso.
Q 150Juana Maria lies at Mission Santa Barbara in the family plot of which fur trapper, who led her 1853 rescue?
- ALewis Burton
- BGeorge Nidever
- CIsaac Sparks
- DAlpheus Thompson
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George Nidever
George Nidever found her on his third expedition and took her into his own home, where she marveled at horses and European food.
History trivia questions 151–200
Q 151Quel empereur byzantin envoie des émissaires dérober des œufs de vers à soie ?
- AJustinien
- BHéraclius
- CThéodose
- DAnastase
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Justinien
Ce vol permit les premières productions en Thrace et donna à l'Empire byzantin un monopole européen durant le Moyen Âge.
Q 152¿Cuántos días duró la travesía de Alejandro Magno por los desiertos de Gedrosia?
- A90
- B25
- C60
- D40
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60
El calor extremo y la sed acabaron con buena parte de sus hombres: resultó más devastadora que las propias batallas.
Q 153¿En qué película estadounidense de 2005 apareció el santuario Fushimi Inari?
- A«El último samurái»
- B«La casa de las dagas voladoras»
- C«Lost in Translation»
- D«Memorias de una geisha»
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«Memorias de una geisha»
El recinto se considera uno de los lugares más bellos de su ciudad y uno de los símbolos de Japón.
Q 154À Olympie, dans le temple de quelle divinité découvre-t-on en 1877 une statue d'Hermès ?
- ARhéa
- BDéméter
- CZeus
- DHéra
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Héra
L'œuvre, aussi appelée Hermès de Praxitèle, est exposée au musée archéologique du site.
Q 155Which 1879 battle, fought on the day of a solar eclipse, saw a Zulu army overrun a British invasion camp?
- ARorke's Drift
- BBlood River
- CMajuba Hill
- DIsandlwana
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Isandlwana
Isandlwana was the British Army's worst defeat against an indigenous force with far inferior weapons. It wrecked the first British invasion of Zululand.
Q 156Which White House intern's affair with Bill Clinton led to his impeachment by the House of Representatives?
- APaula Jones
- BKathleen Willey
- CMonica Lewinsky
- DGennifer Flowers
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Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky gave investigators a blue dress whose DNA evidence showed the president's sworn denials were false, though the Senate later acquitted him.
Q 157Eli Whitney's first gin cleaned about fifty pounds of cotton a day; how much could one worker clean by hand?
- AOne pound
- BFour pounds
- CTwelve pounds
- DForty pounds
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One pound
One pound a day was the old hand rate for upland cotton, whose seeds cling tightly to the fibre. A fifty-fold jump is why planters began copying the gin before the patent was even issued.
Q 158The phrase 'smoke-filled room' dates from the 1920 Republican convention that picked which presidential nominee?
- AWarren G. Harding
- BHerbert Hoover
- CCalvin Coolidge
- DCharles Evans Hughes
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Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding was a minor candidate until, legend has it, party power-brokers settled on him in a private meeting at Chicago's Blackstone Hotel. A news agency report of the rumours gave politics the phrase.
Q 159The SS division behind a 10 June 1944 massacre was heading for which front?
- ACalais
- BNormandy
- CThe Ardennes
- DDunkirk
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Normandy
Normandy. Das Reich was sent north after the D-Day landings four days earlier; harried by the Resistance on the way, its men hanged 99 townsmen in Tulle the day before the village massacre.
Q 160Bij welke plaats, vroeger Elot geheten, lag de werf van de schepen voor Salomo?
- AAsdod
- BEilat
- CJaffa
- DAkko
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Eilat
Later breidde Salomo met zijn bondgenoot Hiram ook de scheepvaart en handel op de Middellandse Zee en de Rode Zee uit.
Q 161Qual lago começou a encolher na década de 1960 após desvios de rios para irrigação soviética?
- AMar de Aral
- BLago Baikal
- CLago Balkhash
- DMar Cáspio
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Mar de Aral
Era o quarto maior lago do mundo, com 68.000 km². Em 1997 tinha apenas 10% do tamanho original e estava dividido em quatro lagos menores.
Q 162Which Caribbean country's president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted and flown into exile on leap day 2004?
- ABarbados
- BGrenada
- CHaiti
- DCuba
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Haiti
Haiti's ousted leader was flown to the Central African Republic and later claimed that American forces had kidnapped him, which US officials denied.
Q 163Hoe oud was Toetanchamon toen hij zijn vader als farao opvolgde?
- A7
- B12
- C14
- D9
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9
Zolang hij zo jong was, lag de macht vermoedelijk bij een vizier en een generaal.
Q 164Which comedian, later the star of Your Show of Shows, got his break in the Coast Guard revue Tars and Spars?
- AMilton Berle
- BDanny Kaye
- CJackie Gleason
- DSid Caesar
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Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar was a Coast Guardsman stationed in Brooklyn when he joined the cast. The touring revue became his first major job as a comic, and he repeated the role in a 1946 film.
Q 165Lew Wallace, a young Indiana lieutenant in Zachary Taylor's army in Mexico, later wrote which bestselling novel?
- AThe Robe
- BBen-Hur
- CQuo Vadis
- DSpartacus
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Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur came out in 1880; Wallace finished it in Santa Fe, in land his old army had helped win, though he saw no combat himself.
Q 166In welchem Bundesstaat Indiens ist die Dreiheit um Krishnas Form Jagannath sehr populär?
- AKerala
- BPunjab
- CAssam
- DOdisha
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Odisha
Zu dieser Dreiheit gehören neben Jagannath zwei Geschwister Krishnas.
Q 167Illinois women and children wore paint of which colour on their cheeks, first made from the mineral ochre?
- ARed
- BWhite
- CYellow
- DBlack
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Red
Red paint later came from vermilion bought from French traders, and it was also used to fill in the tattoos on arms and torsos.
Q 168What name is given to the drowned land that once joined Britain to mainland Europe across the North Sea?
- ADoggerland
- BFennoscandia
- CSundaland
- DZealandia
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Doggerland
Doggerland sank beneath rising seas between 10,000 and 7,000 years ago; its name comes from the Dogger Bank, itself named after Dutch fishing boats.
Q 169Too short for varsity basketball at Mitchell High School, Gus Grissom joined which team instead?
- AWrestling
- BTrack
- CBaseball
- DSwimming
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Swimming
Swimming came after his father urged him to find a sport that suited him better. In class he was an average student who shone only at mathematics.
Q 170Which 1926 book by Kandinsky analyses the elements of drawing, calling horizontals cold and verticals hot?
- APedagogical Sketchbook
- BArt and Visual Perception
- CThe New Vision
- DPoint and Line to Plane
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Point and Line to Plane
Point and Line to Plane grew out of his Bauhaus classes on form. Where his first treatise dealt mainly with colour, this one dissects dots, strokes and surfaces.
Q 171Which American carmaker built a doomed company town deep in the Amazon rainforest, yet never once visited it?
- ARansom Olds
- BHenry Ford
- CWalter Chrysler
- DLouis Chevrolet
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford planned the town, Fordlândia, for 10,000 people, but blight and insects ravaged its close-planted trees. His grandson sold the land at a loss of over $20 million in 1945.
Q 172Envoy Edmund Roberts carried the first 1804 dollars to the King of Siam and the Sultan of which state?
- AZanzibar
- BMuscat
- CPersia
- DMorocco
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Muscat
The misdated coins became the 'King of American Coins', and one sold in 1999 for $4.14 million.
Q 173「ピラトの石碑」は発見時、どんな建物の階段の一部だった？
- A図書館
- B競技場
- C浴場
- D劇場
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Q 174¿Con qué eufemismo se designaba la tierra de los muertos que Anubis debía vigilar?
- AOrilla Luminosa
- BParaíso Occidental
- CHorizonte Oriental
- DJardín del Silencio
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Paraíso Occidental
Allí el dios daba la bienvenida a los muertos, purificaba corazones y espíritus y proporcionaba muchas ofrendas de alimentos.
Q 175Which statement of doctrine, finalised in 1571 under Elizabeth I, became the Church of England's defining confession?
- ASix Articles
- BTen Articles
- CForty-two Articles
- DThirty-nine Articles
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Thirty-nine Articles
The Thirty-nine Articles revised the Forty-two Articles of 1553, which had been dropped almost at once when the Catholic Mary I took the throne.
Q 176In which year did production of the Ford Model T begin?
- A1908
- B1906
- C1910
- D1918
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1908
1908: the first one left Detroit's Piquette Avenue Plant on 27 September, and Ford's moving assembly line later cut its build time from over 12 hours to about 90 minutes.
Q 177Wo residierte Harry S. Truman während der Renovierung des Weißen Hauses?
- ABlair House
- BDecatur House
- COctagon House
- DMount Vernon
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Blair House
Die Arbeiten dauerten von 1948 bis 1952; das Gebäude wurde vollständig entkernt. Der West Wing mit dem Oval Office blieb dagegen regulär in Benutzung.
Q 178Which brewer hung prints of 'Custer's Last Fight' in saloons across America from 1896?
- AMiller Brewing
- BSchlitz Brewing
- CAnheuser-Busch
- DPabst Brewing
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Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch. It gave the lithograph to bars as an advertisement for its beer, and the print eventually ran to more than a million copies, one of the most reproduced of its time.
Q 179Welke Britse filosoof onderscheidde in 1945 drie delen in Plato's Staat?
- AAlfred Ayer
- BBertrand Russell
- CGeorge Edward Moore
- DGilbert Ryle
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Bertrand Russell
Boek I-V gaat over de utopische samenleving, boek VI-VII over wat een filosoof precies is en boek VIII-X over de mogelijke regeringsvormen.
Q 180Quale quota della gomma mondiale avrebbe avuto il Giappone conquistando il Sud-est asiatico?
- AQuattro quinti
- BUn terzo
- CLa metà
- DDue terzi
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Quattro quinti
La stessa conquista gli avrebbe dato anche i due terzi della produzione di stagno, un duro colpo per i suoi avversari.
Q 181King Alexander I's assassin, Vlado Chernozemski, was a marksman from which organisation?
- AThe IMRO
- BThe Chetniks
- CThe Black Hand
- DYoung Bosnia
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The IMRO
The IMRO, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, lent an experienced gunman to Croatian exiles plotting against the king. He was cut down by an officer's sabre, beaten by the crowd and dead by evening.
Q 182What is the common name for private supplemental insurance that pays costs Original Medicare leaves to the patient?
- AMedi-Cal
- BExtra Help
- CMedicare Advantage
- DMedigap
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Medigap
Medigap policies are standardised by letter, so a Plan G from one insurer covers exactly what a Plan G from any other does, and buyers can compare on price alone.
Q 183Which Mexican revolutionary reportedly met a US general in 1915 at the house Beto O'Rourke later made his home?
- AÁlvaro Obregón
- BPancho Villa
- CEmiliano Zapata
- DVenustiano Carranza
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Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa is said to have met General Hugh Scott there; the mission-style house in the Sunset Heights neighborhood was designed by the architect Henry Trost.
Q 184Which immigration station in New York Harbor processed about 12 million arrivals between 1892 and 1954?
- AGovernors Island
- BLiberty Island
- CEllis Island
- DStaten Island
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island's first arrival was Annie Moore, a 17-year-old from Cork, on 1 January 1892. Officials there worked from the steamship lists, so the tale that they changed surnames is a myth.
Q 185Além do Orange, que república os bôeres fundaram na segunda metade do século XIX?
- ANatal
- BTransvaal
- CBechuanalândia
- DRodésia
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Transvaal
As duas repúblicas nasceram do massacre dos povos nativos e se constituíram como sociedades fundadas na opressão racial.
Q 186¿Qué velocidad máxima se estima que alcanzaban los barcos vikingos?
- A8 o 9 nudos
- B14 o 15 nudos
- C11 o 12 nudos
- D5 o 6 nudos
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14 o 15 nudos
Su timón de espadilla sobresalía solo un metro bajo la quilla, y para salvar cataratas sacaban el barco del agua y lo hacían rodar sobre troncos.
Q 187John Alden, who outlived every other signer of the 1620 shipboard agreement, was hired for the Mayflower in which trade?
- ATailor
- BGunner
- CCooper
- DCarpenter
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Cooper
Cooper was a vital job at sea: Alden made and mended the barrels that held the food and drink. Free to sail home afterward, he chose to stay, and he lived until 1687.
Q 188Wie hoch war das durchschnittliche Sterbealter der Männer in wikingerzeitlichen Gräbern?
- A48 Jahre
- B41 Jahre
- C34 Jahre
- D55 Jahre
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41 Jahre
Frauen wurden im Schnitt 51 Jahre alt; die Skelette zeugen von harter Arbeit, bei Frauen besonders mit deutlichen Spuren von Arthrose.
Q 189Which prime minister, born in New Brunswick, was the first born outside the British Isles?
- ANeville Chamberlain
- BRamsay MacDonald
- CBonar Law
- DStanley Baldwin
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Bonar Law
Bonar Law: in 1916 he declined to form a government, choosing to serve under his Liberal coalition partner instead.
Q 190¿El edicto de qué ciudad legalizó el cristianismo en el Imperio romano en el año 313?
- ANicomedia
- BRávena
- CAquilea
- DMilán
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Milán
Lo acordaron los emperadores Licinio y Constantino I, que reconocieron la libertad de cultos; más tarde se formuló el credo niceno.
Q 191From which English castle did Wallace's co-commander at Stirling Bridge escape during the previous winter?
- ADurham
- BChester
- CCarlisle
- DNottingham
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Chester
Chester held him after his capture in battle in 1296. His father, a more valuable prisoner, was locked up elsewhere and never freed.
Q 192Which Shakespeare play calls jealousy, envy's close cousin, 'the green-eyed monster'?
- AOthello
- BKing Lear
- CHamlet
- DMacbeth
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Othello
Othello hears the warning from Iago, the very man who is busy stoking his jealousy.
Q 193Franklin mused about a rising or setting sun painted on what object in the convention hall?
- AThe ceiling
- BThe main door
- CA delegate's snuffbox
- DThe president's chair
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The president's chair
The president's chair: as the delegates signed, Franklin said he at last knew its painted sun was rising, not setting.
Q 194Van welk eiland kwam de listige Odysseus met twaalf schepen naar Troje?
- AZakynthos
- BSkyros
- CKythera
- DIthaka
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Ithaka
Odysseus bedacht later het houten paard, waarin hij zich zelf met andere vooraanstaande soldaten verstopte.
Q 195Van welke god was Pythagoras volgens de neoplatonist Jamblichus de zoon?
- APoseidon
- BAres
- CHermes
- DApollo
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Apollo
Jamblichus noemde zijn moeder Parthenis, naar het Griekse woord voor maagd: Pythagoras zou maagdelijk geboren zijn om de mensen te verlossen.
Q 196Which poetic nickname for Korea did the American astronomer Percival Lowell use in the title of his 1880s book?
- ALand of the Thunder Dragon
- BLand of Smiles
- CLand of the Morning Calm
- DLand of the Rising Sun
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Land of the Morning Calm
Land of the Morning Calm is a loose reading of the characters in an old dynastic name; Koreans themselves rarely use it, knowing it mainly as a phrase translated back from English.
Q 197Qual general foi enviado em 533 para retomar a África Proconsular dos vândalos?
- AGermano
- BEstilicão
- CBelisário
- DSitas
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Belisário
Os vândalos controlavam a província desde 429; a Guerra Vândala acabou em 534, mas a região só foi efetivamente tomada em 548, por João Troglita.
Q 198Quale fu il primo Stato in cui Trockij riparò nel febbraio 1929, espulso dall'URSS?
- ATurchia
- BNorvegia
- CFrancia
- DSvizzera
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Turchia
L'anno prima Stalin lo aveva fatto confinare ad Alma Ata, in Kazakistan; dall'esilio Trockij continuò a organizzare l'opposizione internazionale.
Q 199¿Qué significa literalmente en ruso la palabra «spútnik»?
- AMensajero del cielo
- BCompañero de viaje
- CEstrella fugaz
- DPequeña luna
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Compañero de viaje
En astronáutica, ese mismo término ruso equivale sencillamente a «satélite».
Q 200Który bóg w homeryckim hymnie śpiewa o narodzinach bogów zaraz po wynalezieniu liry?
- AApollo
- BHefajstos
- CDionizos
- DHermes
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Hermes
Najwcześniejsi Grecy pojmowali poezję teogoniczną jako prototyp twórczości poetyckiej i przypisywali jej moc magiczną.
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