1 - What happened to a Dutch fleet during the Napoleonic wars?

It ran aground after the Dutch destroyed some dykes.

It destroyed itself when several ships fired at each others during the night by mistake.

It was captured by a French cavalry charge.

It was sabotaged in Antwerp harbour by English spies to prevent it from reinforcing the French navy after Napoleon gave the Dutch crown to one of his brother

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

kwa-Zulu

Ulundi

Zimbabwe

Bapedi

3 - When was the Welsh act of Union?

1436

1536

1701

1804

4 - What was the name of the Swiss satelite-state that was established in 1798 by the French?

Swiss Republic

Helvetian Republic

Baseler republic

Chur Republic

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

Zoroastrianism

Nestorian Christianity

Judaism

Coptic Christianity

6 - Which people occupied the Nile delta during the Second Intermediary Period?

The Hyksos

The Palestines

The Lybians

The Nubians

7 - How did the Mycenian civilisation come to an end?

Volcano Eruption

Doric Invasions

Invasions from the sea

Internal Factors

8 - Which European nation briefly conquered Taiwan in the 17th century?

Spain

Japan

The Netherlands

Portugal

9 - What was the capital of the NorthWest Territory in the modern day USA?

Detroit

Dayton

Chillicothe

Chicago

10 - Who was this famous painter?

Rembrandt Rubens Jan Van Eyck Jordaens

11 - Many scholars choose May 6, 1527, as an end point for the Renaissance. What event occurred on that date?

The death of Dante Alighieri

The death of Cesare Borgia

The fall of the republic of Florence

The sack of Rome by soldiers of Charles V

12 - King Mongkut is known as the Father of Modern ___ ?

Burma

Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

13 - Where is the oldest university in Europe?

Oxford

Rome

Bologna

Paris

14 - Which Brazilian president ordered the construction of Brasília?

Getúlio Vargas

Lula da Silva

Juscelino Kubitschek

Fernando Collor

15 - The Khanates of Astrakhan and Kazan were conquered in the reign of which Muscovite ruler?

Dmitrii Donskoi

Ivan III

Vasilii III

Ivan IV

16 - Who was president of the United States when the first southern states seceded from the Union?

Franklin Pierce

Abraham Lincoln

William Seward

James Buchanan

17 - Which city served as a co-capital of the ancient Persian empire and was the scene of a bizare mass wedding between hundreds of Alexander the Great's soldiers and native women?

Persepolis

Susa

Ninevah

Ctesiphon

18 - Who brought the name Santa Claus with them to the New World?

Welsh Colonists

French Colonists

Dutch Colonists

Scandinavian Colonists

19 - In which country was the use of the longbow first reported?

Wales

Holland

Hungary

Romania

20 - Who is Stamford Raffles?

The founder of British Malaya

The botanist who brought the first rubber saplings to Malaya.

The founder of Singapore

The captain of the battleship Repulse, sunk by the Japanese during WW2

 

  

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