Mixed Bag of Western History

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1.	What year did Columbus "discover" Jamaica?

1497

1532

1610

1756

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2.	Why was it was considered bad luck to light three person's cigarettes on one match during the years 1914-17?

Three was considered an unlucky number.

It gave snipers time to draw a bead on soldiers in the trenches.

There was a high risk of fire in the trenches due to settling masses of flammable gases.

It was considered overly conservative to re-use matches-a sign of the depletion of war funding.

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3.	Hitler was a vegetarian.

True

False

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4.	When the Roman Empire was thriving, how many years did the average Roman live?

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5.	What wiped out the inhabitants of the ancient Roman city Pompeii?

Influenza

A volcanic eruption

Locusts

War

I don't know

6.	Which of the following leaders of the Americas spent the longest time in power?

George Washington

Lyndon Johnson

Fidel Castro

Jean Chretien

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7.	The Peloponnesian war was fought between Athens and:

Rome

Sparta

Crete

London

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8.	In 1991, The Soviet Union admitted that:

its flag had been flying upside down at the Kremlin for the past 10 years.

the assassination of J.F. Kennedy has been a national conspiracy.

its clocks had been off by one hour for the past 61 years.

the amount of counterfeit money in circulation exceeded real currency.

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9.	Who was Josephine de Beauharnais?

Napoleon's wife

The first enlightened despot of Russia

One of Henry VIII's unfortunate wives

Hitler's mistress

I don't know

10.	Friedrich Engels collaborated:

with Hitler on the rise of Nazism.

with Karl Marx on "The Communist Manifesto".

with Andy Warhol on his paintings.

with Mahatma Gandhi on conceptualizing peace.

I don't know

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Mixed Bag of Western History