GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - History

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1	Who was the last pharoah of Egypt?
		Tutankhamen
		Julius Caesar
		Cleopatra VII
		Nefertiti
		Alexander the Great

2	Who was the leader of Russia during World War Two?
		Karl Marx
		Sean Fitzpatrick
		Vladimir I. Lenin
		Josef Stalin
		Adolf Hitler

3	Who is credited with being the first European to discover North America?
		Albert Einstein
		Christopher Columbus
		Captain James Cook
		Ferdinand Magellan
		Edmund Hillary

4	The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) was fought between which two countries?
		New Zealand and Australia
		USA and Russia
		Germany and England
		England and France
		Russia and England

5	Which New Zealander is known as the first person to climb Mt Everest (along with the Nepalese sherpa, Tensing Norgay)?
		Edmund Hillary
		Peter Snell
		Jack Lovelock
		Zinzan Brooke
		Ernest Rutherford

6	What year was the Treaty of Waitangi signed?
		1860
		1800
		1945
		1840
		1990

7	When did New Zealand make free primary school education compulsory?
		1950
		1901
		1840
		1860
		1877

8	Which country was the first in the world where women voted for the government?
		USA
		Great Britain
		New Zealand
		France
		Australia

9	Which modern-day country is the Aztec civilization associated with?
		Mexico
		Brazil
		USA
		South Africa
		Chile

10	Alexander the Great came from which modern-day country?
		Italy
		Greece
		USA
		France
		Egypt

11	Hannibal was a famous Carthaginian (North Africa) general who attacked a great empire with a large army which included elephants. Which empire did he attack?
		Greek empire
		Persian empire
		French empire
		Roman empire
		British empire

12	Who is the first European credited with discovering New Zealand?
		Captain James Cook
		Sir Walter Raleigh
		Abel Tasman
		Mickey Mouse
		Ferdinand Magellan

13	Who wrote the opera, "The Magic Flute" (1791)?
		Ludwig van Beethoven (German)
		Guiseppe Verdi (Italian)
		Johann Sebastian Bach (German)
		Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian)
		Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian)

14	Which New Zealander discovered the atomic nucleus and split the atom first?
		Lord Ernest Rutherford
		Colin "Pinetree" Meads
		Sir Keith Holyoake
		Sir Robert Muldoon
		Jenny Shipley

15	The "Falkland's War" (1982-1989) was fought between which two countries?
		Brazil and Argentina
		France and England
		Great Britain and Argentina
		USSR and USA
		Vietnam and USA

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