Arch Soc and History Soc Quiz!

Question 1

What illness was responsible for the death of 2/3 of the indigenous population of America during the sixteenth century?

Accepted Answer

Smallpox

Question 2

What Spanish king comissioned the construction of the infamous Spanish Armada?

Accepted Answer

Philip II

Question 3

In tennis, what piece of fruit is found at the top of the men's Wimbledon trophy?

Accepted Answer

Pineapple

Question 4

Wayne Rooney scored his Premier League first goal against which team?

Accepted Answer

Arsenal

Question 5

Which European country shares its border with the most neighbours (nine)?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 6

Which English queen has been also known as the SheWolf of France?

Accepted Answer

Isabella of France

Question 7

Where was the Tollund Man, a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th c., found in 1950?

Accepted Answer

Denmark

Question 8

How many US states begin with the letter A?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 9

Which king of France dissolved and persecuted the knights Templar?

Accepted Answer

Philip IV

Question 10

Which Roman elegist wrote: “No squeezing thigh to thigh, no playing footsie!"

Accepted Answer

Ovid

Question 11

What was queen Victoria's first name?

Accepted Answer

Alexandrina

Question 12

What was the name of the USSR's doctrine of the 1980's implemented by Gorbachev?

Accepted Answer

Perestroika

Question 13

Where are the La Brea Tar Pits, which preserved the remains of a nearly intact mammoth and saber-toothed cat, located?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 14

What is the middle name of Angela Merkel?

Accepted Answer

Dorothea

Question 15

Which of these is not a capital city?

Accepted Answer

Zanzibar

Question 16

This Roman emperor was slowly poisoned to death by mushrooms given to him by his wife Agrippina the younger

Accepted Answer

Claudius

Question 17

Who was the last king of the Plantagenet house?

Accepted Answer

Richard II

Question 18

According to the Roman myth, the girl who boasted that she could weave better than Minerva, was turned into what?

Accepted Answer

Spider

Question 19

Tholos tombs in Mycenean Greece are known for their beehive-like shape.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

How many players are there in a rugby team?

Accepted Answer

13

Question 21

What is the name of the film used for evidence during the investigations on the murder of JFK?

Accepted Answer

Zapruder Film

Question 22

Where was Marco Polo born?

Accepted Answer

Venice, Italy

Question 23

American singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta is best known by which stagename?

Accepted Answer

Lady Gaga

Question 24

What is the generally agreed upon cause of death of Otzi the Iceman - Europe's oldest known natural human mummy?

Accepted Answer

Blood loss from arrow wound on the shoulder

Question 25

What is Japanese sake made from?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Question 26

What was the name given to female skeleton of the early hominin species of Australopithecus afarensis found in Ethiopia?

Accepted Answer

Lucy

Question 27

What country has the longest coastline in the world?

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 28

Between Edward VI and Mary I, England had a queen that only ruled for 9 days, what was her name?

Accepted Answer

Lady Jane Grey

Question 29

The development of what method of archaeological excavation is attributed to the Wheelers and Kathleen Kenyon?

Accepted Answer

box grid system

Question 30

What is the chemical formula for Table Salt?

Accepted Answer

NaC1

Question 31

Which country is the origin of the cocktail Mojito?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 32

Çatalhöyük is Neolithic proto-city settlement and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in which country?

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 33

Huanoco, Cusichaca, and Machu Picchu were ancient cities of what civilisation?

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 34

Brazil shares a border with every South American country, save two. Which are these?

Accepted Answer

Chile and Ecuador

Question 35

Which singer has the most UK Number One singles ever?

Accepted Answer

Elvis Presley

Question 36

What was the name of the pact of No-Agression signed between Nazi Germany and the USSR in 1939

Accepted Answer

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question 37

Kythereia is another name for whom?

Accepted Answer

Aphrodite

Question 38

Who wrote the Anecdota or Secret History, which bashes the Byzantine emperor Justinian and his wife Theodora

Accepted Answer

Procopius

Question 39

This coastal city was the parent city of Carthage and Tartessus

Accepted Answer

Tyre

Question 40

Byblos is noted as one of the oldest cities in the world. In which country can you find it?

Accepted Answer

Lebanon

Question 41

Which Beatles song was banned from the BBC for its lyrics?

Accepted Answer

I am the Walrus

Question 42

Which UNESCO world heritage site is NOT officially in Danger?

Accepted Answer

Site of Delphi in Phocis, Greece

Question 43

Who was the last Welsh Prince of Wales?

Accepted Answer

Owain Glyndŵr

Question 44

A styca is coin minted in the ninth century unique to pre-Viking Northumbria.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

In the Middle Ages the Welsh were well know for their mastery of what deadly weapon?

Accepted Answer

Long Bow

Question 46

Syracuse, the powerful Greek city-state and now a World Heritage Site, is located on what Mediterranean island?

Accepted Answer

Sicily

Question 47

What is the real name of the Spanish hero also known as El Cid

Accepted Answer

Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar

Question 48

What were the names of the two beligerant blocks in World War One?

Accepted Answer

Allied Powers and Central Powers

Question 49

What event triggered the Gulf War in the 1990's?

Accepted Answer

Iraq invaded Kuwait

Question 50

Which Egyptian pharaoh’s mummy has a passport?

Accepted Answer

Ramesses II

Question 51

What was the main export from England to continental Europe during the Middle Ages?

Accepted Answer

Wool

Question 52

Which is the only vowel not used as the first letter in a US State?

Accepted Answer

E

Question 53

Which emperor's 2 yr reign that saw a fire and plague in Rome and the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and Pompeii's destruction

Accepted Answer

Vespasian

Question 54

Innocent III is better known for his key role in the organisation of which council?

Accepted Answer

Fourth Lateran Council

Question 55

What is the northernmost European city?

Accepted Answer

Reykjavik

Question 56

What was the Cloaca Maxima?

Accepted Answer

One of the world’s earliest sewage systems

Question 57

What was the name of the bacteria that caused the Black Death?

Accepted Answer

Yersinia Pestis

Question 58

In what island did Napoleon spend his last days in exile

Accepted Answer

St Helen

Question 59

Vaduz is the capital of which country?

Accepted Answer

Liechtenstein

Question 60

What famous reformer of the church studied in the University of St Andrews?

Accepted Answer

John Knox

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