HISTORY QUIZ NO. 13
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:14 am1. Who defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
2. In which Australian city did MacArthur base his Pacific operations during World War II?
BRISBANE
3. Which two countries did contoversial Historian A.J.P. Taylor blame for causing World War II with their 'Policy of Appeasement'?
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
4. In Norse mythology, which term describes the pre-ordained doom of the gods?
RAGNAROK
5. What was the name of the settlement which was defended by the British forces as depicted in the film 'Zulu'?
RORKE'S DRIFT
6. What name did Field Marshal Bl?cher use as the name for the Battle of Waterloo, reflecting the name of the farm where he and the Duke of Wellington met after the battle?
LA BELLE ALLIANCE
7. In heraldry, what color is referred to as 'Gules'?
RED
8. Who was quoted as saying 'In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers'?
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
9. Which Spanish town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War by Germany's Condor Legion, shares its name with a painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the event?
GUERNICA
10. Who wrote 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in France in 1791?
OLYPE DE GOUGE
11. Members of which religious cult were initially blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Sydney Hilton during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in February 1978, killing a garbage collector and a policeman?
ANANDA MARGA
12. Which famous document opens with the sentence: 'A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism'?
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
13. Which forest held the remains of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and the majority of his family who had been murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918-21?
KOPTYAKI
14. What was the nickname of Australian poet A.B. Patterson?
BANJO
15. The Navy of which country was responsible for the initial retrieval of three 'enigma' machine rotors from a sinking U-boat in 1940, allowing for the succesful decryption of the main 'enigma' keys by that country's cryptographers.
BRITAIN
16. Which World War II leader was quoted as saying in 1943 'The Pope! How many divisions has he got'?
JOSEF STALIN
17. Which war saw the birth of the balaclava as a form of head wear?
CRIMEAN
18. What is the English translation of "Lebensraum"?
LIVING SPACE
19. What name was taken by a political group from the controversial document which was presented to the Czechoslovak Government in 1977, leading to the arrest of the three individuals who presented it?
CHARTER 77
20. What Japanese city was hit by the atomic bomb first?
HIROSHIMA
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
2. In which Australian city did MacArthur base his Pacific operations during World War II?
BRISBANE
3. Which two countries did contoversial Historian A.J.P. Taylor blame for causing World War II with their 'Policy of Appeasement'?
BRITAIN AND FRANCE
4. In Norse mythology, which term describes the pre-ordained doom of the gods?
RAGNAROK
5. What was the name of the settlement which was defended by the British forces as depicted in the film 'Zulu'?
RORKE'S DRIFT
6. What name did Field Marshal Bl?cher use as the name for the Battle of Waterloo, reflecting the name of the farm where he and the Duke of Wellington met after the battle?
LA BELLE ALLIANCE
7. In heraldry, what color is referred to as 'Gules'?
RED
8. Who was quoted as saying 'In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers'?
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
9. Which Spanish town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War by Germany's Condor Legion, shares its name with a painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the event?
GUERNICA
10. Who wrote 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in France in 1791?
OLYPE DE GOUGE
11. Members of which religious cult were initially blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Sydney Hilton during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in February 1978, killing a garbage collector and a policeman?
ANANDA MARGA
12. Which famous document opens with the sentence: 'A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism'?
THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
13. Which forest held the remains of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and the majority of his family who had been murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918-21?
KOPTYAKI
14. What was the nickname of Australian poet A.B. Patterson?
BANJO
15. The Navy of which country was responsible for the initial retrieval of three 'enigma' machine rotors from a sinking U-boat in 1940, allowing for the succesful decryption of the main 'enigma' keys by that country's cryptographers.
BRITAIN
16. Which World War II leader was quoted as saying in 1943 'The Pope! How many divisions has he got'?
JOSEF STALIN
17. Which war saw the birth of the balaclava as a form of head wear?
CRIMEAN
18. What is the English translation of "Lebensraum"?
LIVING SPACE
19. What name was taken by a political group from the controversial document which was presented to the Czechoslovak Government in 1977, leading to the arrest of the three individuals who presented it?
CHARTER 77
20. What Japanese city was hit by the atomic bomb first?
HIROSHIMA
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