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This quiz features 8 general knowledge history questions from the roman empire up and until modern day history
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This quiz is about general history knowledge :) good luck!
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In what year BC did Alexander The Great conquer Egypt?
1 —
332
— 500
51% got this right
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What, in today's money, was/is the most valuable company to ever exist?
Dutch East India Company
Apple
Mississippi Company
Standard Oil
42% got this right
The Dutch East India Company, also known as the VOC, was worth over 7 trillion USD In todays money!
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Which famous type of governing was first introduced by Cleisthenes around the year 500 BC?
Democracy
61% got this right
Democracy is made up out of the Greek words demos (people) and kratos (rule)
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In 1996, a sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell. What was this sheep called?
Dolly
Layla
Mia
Shaun
55% got this right
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Put the following events in chronological order from EARLIEST TO LATEST.
1.
Assassination of Julius Caesar
2.
Augustus becomes the first Roman Emperor
3.
Start of the Bubonic Plague
4.
Start of the French revolution
92% got this right
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Julius Caesar was assassinated March 15, 44 BC Augustus became the first Roman emperor in 27 BC The Bubonic Plague is believed to have started in 1346 The French revolution started in 1789
8
Where was Franz Ferdinand Assassinated causing the First World War?
24% got this right
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When were the first modern day Olympics held?
1784 —
1896
— 1946