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History Multiple Choice #6
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about world history?
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1.
Was Confucius a real person?
Yes
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No
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2.
How many wives did Muhammad have during his life?
None
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1
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11
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Over 700
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3.
Which of these paintings is from the 1400s?
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4.
The Nazi empire was known as the Third Reich. What was the First Reich?
Holy Roman Empire
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Persian Empire
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There wasn't one
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5.
Whose last words were reportedly "monks, monks, monks"?
Henry VIII
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John F. Kennedy
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Marie Antoinette
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6.
How many voyages did Columbus make to the New World?
1
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4
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17
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7.
What happened to Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth?
She was given a Hero of the Soviet Union medal
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She died in orbit, as planned
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She "defected" to the United States
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What happened to Leon Trotsky?
He was given a Hero of the Soviet Union medal
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He bought a theater in Paris
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He was killed with an ice axe in Mexico City
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9.
Who, according to Shakespeare, said "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"?
Brutus
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Julius Caesar
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Mark Antony
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10.
Which invention enabled a much higher world population than was previously thought sustainable?
Bessemer process
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Daguerreotype process
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Haber process
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The Haber process fixed Nitrogen from the atmosphere, allowing the creation of artificial fertilizers
11.
Which one of these cities DIDN'T experience a gold rush?
Johannesburg
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Melbourne
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Rio de Janeiro
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San Francisco
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12.
What is generally thought to be the first American country to be visited by Europeans?
Brazil
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Canada
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Cuba
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The Vikings explored Canada around 1000 AD - half a millenium before Columbus
13.
Where was coffee first brewed?
Austria
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Mexico
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Yemen
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14.
Which of these countries has never occupied the Philippines?
China
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Japan
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Spain
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United States
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15.
What happened during the three Defenestrations of Prague?
A fence was torn down
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All the trees were chopped down by invading armies
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Someone was thrown out of a window
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There's also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius#Descendants
"Confucius's family, the Kongs, have the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world today. The father-to-son family tree, now in its 83rd generation, has been recorded since the death of Confucius."
"Jensen [author of Manufacturing Confucianism, which won an award from the American Academy of Religion] does not believe that Kongzi even existed. “I think he’s a literary trope,” Jensen says. “He’s a figure who came to stand for certain things.” Jensen is currently researching the possibility that Kongzi—whose birth, like that of Jesus, is the subject of many miraculous tales—had his origins as a mythological figure of ancient Chinese fertility cults."
"Most Sinologists these days would agree that Confucius, if he existed at all, has left little concrete evidence of what he was like"
His central claim is that the modern conception of Confucius was shaped by Jesuit missionaries in the Ming and Qing dynasties based on the historical figure of Kongzi.
I think the parallel with Jesus is a good one. Few if any serious historians doubt that Jesus was a real person. But that doesn't mean they accept the story in the Bible either.
Likewise, Kongzi was almost certainly real. But are all the details of his biography correct? Almost certainly not.
"The vast majority of historians accept Confucius (Kong Fuzi/Kongzi) as a historical figure who lived during the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history (approximately 551–479 BCE). He is traditionally believed to have been a teacher, editor, and philosopher, and his thoughts have profoundly influenced Chinese culture and other East Asian societies for over two millennia."
"However, like many figures from ancient times, the details of Confucius's life are a mix of historical record, later interpretations, and legendary embellishments. Given the distance in time and the paucity of contemporary records, some scholars have debated specific details of his life and teachings."
As for "few if any serious historians doubt that Jesus was a real person", I have to disagree with that one. I don't know any serious historian who thinks that there was a historical Jesus. Given the lack of contemporary accounts, and the historical inaccuracies in the gospels, I used to be among them. Christopher Hitchens convinced me otherwise.
Hitch pointed out that the census that supposedly required Joseph to move to Bethlehem never occurred, and the idea of having to move to be counted is ridiculous. So why make up such a ridiculous story? Why not say that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, unless Jesus of Nazareth was a real person? The messiah had to be born in Bethlehem, so the census was made up to explain how a Nazarene was born in Bethlehem.
Great quiz though!