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A test for history enthusiasts: ANSWERS

By US Desk
Fri, 08, 22

Appearing at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to be televised....

1A

Appearing at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to be televised.

2A

After Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States.

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3C

The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jah n (reigned 1628–58) to immortalize his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Distinguished One of the Palace).

4D

Construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., began in 1848. It was interrupted by the Civil War. The monument was officially dedicated in 1885 and opened to the public in 1888.

5C

The Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff began work in March 1909, and the Titanic passed its sea trials several weeks before setting sail on its maiden voyage on April 10, 1912.

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6C

Corazon Aquino was a political leader who became president of the Philippines in 1986. Aquino restored democratic rule after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. She was the first woman to hold the office.

7B

The Great Irish Famine, a potato blight that caused a tremendous migration, occurred in the mid-19th century. It lasted from 1845 to 1849.

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8C

Gavrilo Princip, a South Slav nationalist, assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1914.

9A

After the Great Fire of 1666, Christopher Wren was commissioned to design nearly 50 new churches in London, including one to replace St. Paul’s Cathedral, and other buildings.

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10B

The Reconstruction Era followed the Civil War. It takes its name from the “reconstruction” of the Union with the defeat of the Southern states.

11D

Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453).

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12A

Grigori Rasputin was a Siberian peasant and mystic whose ability to improve the condition of Aleksey Nikolayevich, the hemophiliac heir to the Russian throne, made him an influential favourite at the court of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.

13C

The first name in the history of medicine is Hippocrates, a physician from the island of Cos in ancient Greece. He is known as the “Father of Medicine.”