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History 150707 is a selection of 10 questions. History 150707 is the filename to differentiate it from other History quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Prior to the onset of the Second World War, what name did people give to what we now call the First World War?
A Great War (to a minor extent, the ‘World War’)
2 What sort of antique is associated with Chippendale?
A Furniture (cabinet-maker and furniture designer)
3 Which historic event took place at Runnymede, in 1215?
A Sealing/signing of Magna Carta
4 Which German city hosted the trials of Nazi war criminals?
A Nuremberg
5 Which king was forced from the Palace of Versailles at the start of the French Revolution in 1789?
A Louis XVI
6 In which year saw Chicago’s St Valentine’s Day Massacre?
A 1929
7 Who did Pope Leo X excommunicate at the Diet of Worms in 1521?
A Martin Luther (Worms is a place in Germany, a diet was a name for a formal deliberative assembly)
8 Named after a president, what was the name for shantytowns that sprang up in the USA during the Great Depression?
A Hooverville (named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the US during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it)
9 Which rubber-based product was patented in 1869 in the United States?
A Chewing gum
10 How many years did prohibition last for in the USA?
A Thirteen years (1920 to 1933)