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History by Letter 'K' (Multiple Choice)

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Last updated: December 7, 2023
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1. Who needed an Equus ferus caballus so desperately (according to William Shakespeare) that he was willing to make the provider of the item very comfortable in terms of real estate ownership?
King Henry III ✓
King Edward III ✓
King George III ✓
King Richard III ✓
2. When the Shintos dropped some ordnance on Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, Australia... in 1942... they also gave this town a bit of a shake up.
Kuranda ✓
Kalgoorlie ✓
Katherine ✓
Kapunda ✓
Kuranda - Queensland. Kalgoorlie - Western Australia. Kapunda - South Australia.
3. Huey Long was a controversial and corrupt governor of Louisiana and later a senator for that state. Another bullet stopper. His bodyguards shot his assassin dead. An autopsy revealed that the assassin had stopped 60 bullets. What was Long's nickname?
The King's Man ✓
The Kinsman ✓
The Kingfish ✓
King Kong ✓
4. An evil-looking item of cutlery used by Gurkhas. Its curved blade makes it an ideal throat-slitter (Was that the designer's intention?).
Katana ✓
Kukri ✓
Kama ✓
Kirati ✓
Katana - commonly known as a samurai sword. Kama - Japanese farming implement similar to a sickle or billhook. Kirati - Sino-Tibetan indigenous peoples of the Himalayas. Like the Gurkhas... kukri-wielders.
5. This jingoistic, sword-rattling, imperialistic "God is an Englishman" poet suddenly did not have too much to say and stopped whistling "Rule Brittania"... when his son was killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915.
John Keats ✓
Rudyard Kipling ✓
R.W. Ketton-Cremer ✓
Kingsley Amis ✓
6. British field marshal. Had a panic attack just before the Battle of Omdurman in 1898 against the Mahdists. Embarrassed his staff no end. When his officers and troops had sorted out the natives he claimed all the credit. Implemented the concentration camp system in the Second Boer War which resulted in the deaths of 27,927 Boers (mostly women and children) and 14,154 native Africans. He gurgled to death with his main male lover when the cruiser HMS Hampshire hit a German mine off Orkney. Sad. Had an impressive collection of looted ancient relics.
Sir Edward Kerrison ✓
Brackley Kennett ✓
H.H. Kitchener ✓
Sir William Keppel ✓
Kerrison, Kennett and Keppel were all British generals.
7. Won the1973 Nobel Peace Prize for bombing the sheet out of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
Henry Kissinger ✓
Walter Kronkite ✓
Ken Kesey ✓
Kris Kristofferson ✓
Oh, ironies! Kissinger was born in Furth, Bavaria which is now contiguous with Nuremberg. A Jewish war criminal born near the city that rocked with Nazism and saw the end of Nazi war criminals.
8. Australian bushranger (1854-1880). Stringybark Creek. Jerilderie. Glenrowan. Armour. Hanged in Melbourne.
Charles Kingsford Smith ✓
Thomas Keneally ✓
Ned Kelly ✓
Philip Gidley King ✓
Kingsford Smith was an Australian aviation pioneer. Like Amelia Earhart, he flew too close to the sun. Disappeared over the Andaman Sea in 1935. Keneally is an Australia author who wrote 'Schindler's Ark'. King was a governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
9. Russian city that was fought over voraciously by the Red Army and Wehrmacht in WWII. Captured, recaptured, captured, recaptured... it is now in the Ukraine. Or is it?
Kursk ✓
Kharkhov ✓
Kerch ✓
Kaliningrad ✓
10. Birthplace of Immanuel Kant and Hannah Arendt is heavily associated with the city. Once part of Prussia, then East Prussia, now renamed and the capital of Kaliningrad Oblast.
Kiel ✓
Krakow ✓
Konigsberg ✓
Kremlin ✓
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