History Guild Quizzes

1. L’Anse aux Meadows is an important archaeological site from which culture?
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1. In 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued a proclamation dividing the ‘New World’ between Spain and which other country?
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1. Who did the 1521 Edict of Worms decree was “a notorious heretic”?
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1. In the 1930’s which country introduced deliberate errors into its maps in order to confuse potential invaders?
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1. Which Roman emperor ordered the construction of a wall across the width of Northern Britain in 121 CE?
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1. Which country enslaved the greatest number of Africans and transported them across the Atlantic?
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1. What did the first urban civilisations all have in common?
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1. Which Soviet city was besieged by the Germans from September 1941 to January 1944?
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1. Ghana was previously which British colony?
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1. What name did Norse explorers give to North America?
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1. Which type of tank is this?
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1. Who destroyed the second temple at Jerusalem in 70 CE?
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1. Pictured in 1662, which city is this?
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1. When was the ‘New Model Army’ created?
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1. What was the name of Francis Drake’s flagship on his Pacific expedition?
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1. Which country did the USA purchase the Louisiana Territory from?
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1. What practice did Martin Luther criticise in his Ninety-five Theses?
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1. Where and when was this picture taken?
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1. Found in the palace at Knossos, Crete, which is the only Bronze Age Aegean script to have been deciphered?
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1. Where did the Maurya Empire originate?
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1. Where was the Tirpitz sunk?
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1. When did France last execute a prisoner by guillotine?
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1. The term ‘Camelot’ is used to refer to which politician’s administration?
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1. When were debtors prisons abolished in the UK?
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