Statistics for History Multiple Choice #1

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which event triggered World War One?	The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand	85%
How many wives did Henry VIII have?	6	84%
Which of the following was a result of Mao's "Great Leap Forward", a plan to remake China's agrarian economy?	A famine that killed 36 million people	78%
In terms of weapons, what is a pike?	A very long spear	78%
Which of these countries did the Soviet Union NEVER invade?	Sweden	77%
Who was the first person to orbit the Earth?	Yuri Gagarin	77%
Why did whalers hunt sperm whales?	For oil to make candles	76%
Where did Zoroastrianism originate?	Persia	67%
The spinning jenny was one of the earliest innovations in the Industrial Revolution. What was a spinning jenny?	A device for making cloth	66%
Which of the following was NOT originally invented in China?	Concrete	64%
What does a dendrochronologist use to establish dates?	Tree rings	59%
Which of these writers was NOT English?	Oscar Wilde	58%
What was the Byzantine Empire?	A continuation of the Roman Empire	56%
Which of these cities was NOT founded by the Romans?	Alexandria	45%
When was the last time Moscow was ever captured by a foreign power?	By Napoleon in 1812	29%