History Guild Weekly History Quiz No.275
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Weekly History Quiz No. 275

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

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1. When did Nicolaus Copernicus publish 'On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres' which explained that the Earth orbits around the Sun?

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2. In which industry did Alfred Nobel make his fortune?

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3. In which period did the greatest number of US Banks fail?

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4. How long elapsed between Fidel Castro taking power and the Bay of Pigs invasion?

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5. Which groups fought against each other during the Battle of Watling Street?

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6. When was the Maersk Alabama seized by pirates?

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7. Who wrote the poem In Flanders Fields?

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8. Otto von Bismarck was the influential  first Chancellor of which country?

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9. Which of these media organisations was founded earliest?

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10. Which country was subjected to a series of reforms that came to be known as 'shock therapy' in the 1990s?

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