History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.227
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Weekly History Quiz No. 227

History Guild's weekly history quiz. Questions from the broad sweep of human history.

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1. Which other city was destroyed by the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii?

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2. Reflecting a change of societal norms, in which year did prominent British author Henry Jones write ‘in the age we live in, one gets lost amongst the genders and the pronouns’?

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3. Which cause was Theresa Garnett campaigning for when she threatened Winston Churchill with a dog whip?

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4. Who invented the diesel engine?

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5. Which country was embroiled in ‘The Dreyfus Affair’ in the 1890s?

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6. The 1900 Paris Olympics saw athletes competing in 19 different sports. How many of these sports were Women permitted to compete in?

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7. Who wrote Little Women in 1868?

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8. In March 1939 Britain provided security guarantees to Poland and which other country?

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9. Who painted The Night Watch in 1642?

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10. When was the earliest known successful surgical amputation carried out?

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