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1.What was the original purpose of the Taj Mahal?
A mausoleum
An armory
A palace
A mosque
Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor, built the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal - his favorite wife
2.What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Alexandria
Rome
Jerusalem
Constantinople
3.Which came first?
The Paleolithic
Classical Antiquity
The Neolithic
The Bronze Age
The Paleolithic is the early part of the Stone Age, lasting from about 3 million years ago until about 10,000 B.C.
4.What did Costa Rica abolish in 1949?
Slavery
Fossil fuels
Taxes
Its military
5.What was the Tunguska event of 1908?
A rebellion in Austria
A giant explosion in Siberia probably caused by a meteor impact
The mysterious disappearance of a ship in the Caribbean
6.What was a dreadnought?
An elite German soldier
A type of battleship
A demon in Norse mythology
The HMS Dreadnought was launched in 1906. It was so influential that future battleships with similar capabilities were informally referred to as "dreadnoughts", and earlier battleships were "pre-dreadnoughts"
7.Which of these crops DIDN'T come from the New World?
Hemp
Tomatoes
Tobacco
Maize
8.What decade was known as "gay" in America and "naughty" in Britain?
1920s
1890s
1720s
1960s
9.What was Abraham Lincoln doing when he was assassinated in 1865?
Inspecting the troops
Walking on the grounds of the White House
Watching a play at Ford's Theatre
Giving a speech
10.Who theorized that, as food levels rise, population levels grow to meet them - thereby ensuring most people will always be poor?
Adam Smith
David Livingstone
Robert Malthus
G. W. F. Hegel
This was almost always true throughout history until the time of the Industrial Revolution
11.Who was the first animal to orbit the Earth?
Laika the dog
Ham the chimpanzee
Yuri Gagarin the human
The Soviets had not yet invented a way to come down from orbit, so Laika's trip was a suicide mission
12.Where did Karl Marx spend most of his adult life?
Moscow
London
Buenos Aires
Berlin
13.Compared to 50 years ago do French people drink more or less wine?
More
Less
French wine consumption per capita has fallen by more than half in the last 50 years
14.What country was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia?
Greece
Kenya
Uruguay
Zimbabwe
15.What did the Qing dynasty force all men to do when they took over China in the 1600s?
Wear a specific hairstyle
Get circumcised
Serve in the army
Wear specific clothing
The "queue" was a hated symbol of loyalty and submission to the Qing regime, who were Manchu invaders not Han Chinese
I like how Laika's trip is referred to as a 'suicide mission', suggesting she was fully aware of what the trip entailed and made the decision to do it!
I have learned about him from textbooks, teachers, and talked about him with others and he is always referred to as Thomas Malthus, not by his middle name. You can just change it to Thomas Robert Malthus.