4) Which city is known as the Big Apple?
a) Los Angeles
b) Washington D.C.
c) Houston
d) New York
5) Who had the longest tenure as President of USA?
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Franklin D. Roosevelt
c) George Washington
d) James Carter
6) Which of the following cities is in Nevada?
a) Reno
b) Los Angeles
c) Montreal
d) Atlanta
(This quiz is about Victor Alexander John Hope, also known as Lord Linlithgow.)
1. When was Victor Hope viceroy of India?
a) 1943-1947
b) 1936-1943
c) 1916-1921
d) 1905-1910
2. When was Victor Hope born?
a) 17 March 1898
b) 6 April 1892
c) 24 September 1887
d) 11 November 1884
3. Where was Victor Hope born?
a) Abercorn
b) Winchester
c) Belfast
d) Dover
1) When was Rembrandt van Rijn born?
a) 19 March 1554
b) 16 May 1624
c) 15 July 1606
d) 5 December 1636
2) Where was Rembrandt van Rijn born?
a) Leiden
b) Brussels
c) Copenhagen
d) Helsinki
3) Which university did Rembrandt van Rijn attend?
a) Amsterdam University
b) Leiden University
c) Rotterdam University
d) Brussels University
(This quiz about Alexander III of Macedon (Macedonia) aka Alexander the Great who lived in 4th century BC.)
1) Who of the following philosophers taught Alexander?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Socrates
d) Heraclitus
2) What was Bucephalus?
a) Alexander’s cat
b) Alexander’s dog
c) Alexander’s horse
d) Alexander’s parrot
3) How old was Alexander when he became king?
a) 10 years
b) 15 years
c) 20 years
d) 40 years
1) When was Yuri Andropov born?
a) 31 January 1901
b) 15 June 1914
c) 14 August 1912
d) 21 December 1916
2) Where was Yuri Andropov born?
a) Talinn
b) Nagutskoye
c) Helsinki
d) Warsaw
3) On which river did Yuri Andropov work as a boatman?
a) Thames
b) Danube
c) Rhine
d) Volga
1) To which dynasty did Cleopatra belong?
a) Bonaparte
b) Tudor
c) Stuart
d) Ptolemaic
2) When was Cleopatra born?
a) 100 BC
b) 76 BC
c) 69 BC
d) 58 BC
3) When did Cleopatra become queen for the first time?
a) 98 BC
b) 67 BC
c) 51 BC
d) 44 BC
1) When did World War II begin?
a) 28 June 1914
b) 11 November 1918
c) 3 September 1939
d) 1 June 1941
2) Which country was annexed by Germany and USSR?
a) Czechoslovakia
b) Austria
c) Denmark
d) Poland
3) When did Germany attack USSR?
a) 22 June 1941
b) 14 November 1940
c) 3 December 1939
d) 4 July 1940
1. When was Yohannes IV emperor of Ethiopia?
a) 1815-1830
b) 1855-1868
c) 1848-1856
d) 1872-1889
2. When was Yohannes IV’s original name?
a) Ras Tafari
b) Idris Pasha
c) Kassa Mercha
d) Farokh Hassan
3. Who was Yohannes IV’s mail rival to the throne of Ethiopia?
a) Sahle Miriam
b) Haile Malakot
c) Haile Selassie
d) Bezebeh
4. When did Yohannes IV declare war on Egypt?
a) 14 January 1869
b) 12 May 1855
c) 19 July 1868
d) 23 October 1875
1) Which of the following is not a leap year?
a) 1896
b) 1900
c) 1904
d) 1908
2) Which Indian Prime Minister was born on 29 February?
a) Jawaharlal Nehru
b) Lal Bahadur Shastri
c) Morarji Desai
d) Inder Kumar Gujral
3) Who took one day from February and added it to July?
a) Julius Caesar
b) Pompey
c) Sulla
d) Cato
1. When was Catherine of Valois born?
a) 15 March 1406
b) 17 April 1404
c) 12 July 1403
d) 27 October 1401
2. Where was Catherine of Valois born?
a) Paris
b) Reims
c) Nantes
d) Amiens
3. When did Catherine of Valois marry Henry V?
a) 5 February 1421
b) 2 June 1420
c) 31 August 1424
d) 14 November 1422
