Weekly History Quiz No.215
1. Troops from which Allied nation spearheaded the 1942 Dieppe raid?
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1. Troops from which Allied nation spearheaded the 1942 Dieppe raid?
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1. Which countries fought in the 1984-1988 tanker war?
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1. What was the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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1. Where was the Inca capital?
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1. Which Battle saw Henry V of England order the French prisoners he had captured to be executed?
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1. Who was Europe’s most prolific military engineer, creating over 150 fortresses?
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Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, we used ancient DNA to gain new insights into the spread of culture, technologies and ancestry at a crucial juncture in European history.
Read More1. Which empire did Nebuchadnezzar I rule?
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1. When was ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ created?
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Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks, too.
1. Which was the most notorious UK rotten borough?
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1. Which colonial power did India eject from Goa in 1961?
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