1 - Who was the first Caliph?

Abu Bakr

Umar

Ali

Abd-al Malik

2 - Which Chinese dynasty moved the capital to Beijing?

Qing

Yuan

Ming

Tang

3 - When did Newfoundland become a part of Canada?

1905

1949

1867

1875

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

Libya

Nubia

Persia

None, it was native Egyptian

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

Zoroastrianism

Nestorian Christianity

Judaism

Coptic Christianity

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

kwa-Zulu

Ulundi

Zimbabwe

Bapedi

7 - Where did Charles the Bold, last reigning Duke of Burgundy, die?

In Dijon

In Nancy

In London

In Paris

8 - Which Russian tzar was killed in his bedroom on March 11, 1801?

Alexandre I

Paul I

Peter III

Peter II

9 - When was Malaysia formed?

1925

1948

1963

1985

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

Burma

Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

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

Spain

Japan

The Netherlands

Portugal

12 - Polish General Thaddeus Kosciusko served in which foreign country's military?

The United States

France

Russia

Switzerland

13 - Where is the oldest university in Europe?

Oxford

Rome

Bologna

Paris

14 - Which of these countries was the first to gain full independence?

Ghana

Nigeria

Ivory Coast

Senegal

15 - In which Greek City can you find the first monumental sculpture of Greece (shown below)?

Knossos

Athens

Pylos

Mycene

16 - Out of the following unsucessful US Presidential candidates, who won the most electoral votes?

Strom Thurmond

George McGovern

Walter Mondale

Eugene V. Debbs

17 - This Soviet premier, a former KGB head who suceeded Brezhnev, was seen as a potential reformer (even as pro-Western) by much of the European and American press, despite his rather conservative actions. He died after little over a year in office due to acute kidney failure. Who was he?

Yuri Andropov

Andrei Gromyko

Konstantin Chernenko

Ivan Kissov

18 - 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

19 - 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

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

Shang

Han

Chin

Xia

 

  

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