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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. History Mixture. Player queproblema asks:
  According to legend, what did Archimedes have in common with Lady Godiva?

    Both invented military machines.
    Both famously went nude in public.
    Both were expert chess players.
    Both created exquisite chocolates.

#2. History Mixture. Player dancer_99 asks:
  In popular culture it is often claimed that one of these nursery rhymes relates to the Black Death. Which?

    The Grand Old Duke of York
    Baa Baa Black Sheep
    Ring a Ring o' Roses
    Jack and Jill

#3. History Mixture. Player goobas asks:
  The three Apollo 1 astronauts were killed during a launch test. Who was NOT one of the three astronauts who died?

    Roger Chaffee
    Gus Grissom
    Buzz Aldrin
    Ed White

#4. History Mixture. Player ponycargirl asks:
  What modern day country was called Persia in ancient times?

    India
    Iran
    Nepal
    Jordan

#5. History Mixture. Player Fifiona81 asks:
  Which two European countries contested the Second Opium War against China from 1856 to 1860?

    France and the United Kingdom
    Portugal and Spain
    Germany and the Netherlands
    Denmark and Sweden

#6. History Mixture. Player malik24 asks:
  The volunteer Lincoln Battalion of around 3,000 Americans supported the Republican army against Francisco Franco in which 1936-9 war?

    World War II
    First Indochina War
    Chaco War
    Spanish Civil War

#7. History Mixture. Player Billkozy asks:
  One of history's longest wars likely lasted for 335 years and was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly. What other unusual fact is notable about this war?

    Not a single person was killed
    It involved a record 48 other countries
    No soldiers fought only officers battled
    First "air force" of hot air balloons

#8. History Mixture. Player Billkozy asks:
  Which of these began on the Montana morning of June 25, 1876?

    England and Iceland end the Third Cod War
    Battle of the Cedars
    Custer's Last Stand
    Bacon's Rebellion

#9. History Mixture. Player GBfan asks:
  Titus Livius, aka Livy, wrote a book called "From The Founding Of The City" about what city?

    Rome
    Athens
    Alexandria
    Paris

#10. History Mixture. Player DeepHistory asks:
  When storming the parapets of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War, Robert Gold Shaw led the 54th Massachusetts regiment. What was unique about its composition? (Reminder that US President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation a few months before that.)

    It was commanded by President Lincoln's son, Robert
    It was provided with gray instead of blue uniforms
    It was equipped with lances and swords instead of firearms
    It was largely composed of African-Americans