Treaties and Star Fortresses

Question 1

In which U.S. city is the 17th-century Castillo de San Marcos, a bastioned coastal fort, located?

Accepted Answer

St. Augustine

Answer

Charleston

Answer

Pensacola

Answer

Savannah

Question 2

Which element is represented by the chemical symbol Fe?

Accepted Answer

Iron

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Lead

Answer

Tin

Answer

Copper

Question 3

Which Central European conflict ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648?

Accepted Answer

Thirty Years' War

Answer

Franco-Prussian War

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Seven Years' War

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War of the Spanish Succession

Question 4

Who wrote The Prince, a Renaissance work on political power?

Accepted Answer

Niccolò Machiavelli

Answer

Erasmus

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Thomas More

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Baldassare Castiglione

Question 5

In The Third Man, which city provides the divided postwar setting?

Accepted Answer

Vienna

Answer

Prague

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Budapest

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Berlin

Question 6

Which Olympic event combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting?

Accepted Answer

Biathlon

Answer

Nordic combined

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Modern pentathlon

Answer

Cross-country skiing

Question 7

Which Mediterranean island is home to the walled capital Valletta?

Accepted Answer

Malta

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Sicily

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Crete

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Cyprus

Question 8

Which thinker is associated with coordinate geometry and "I think, therefore I am"?

Accepted Answer

René Descartes

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Isaac Newton

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Blaise Pascal

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Gottfried Leibniz

Question 9

Which 1215 charter was agreed at Runnymede and became a symbol of limits on royal authority?

Accepted Answer

Magna Carta

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Golden Bull

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Act of Settlement

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Petition of Right

Question 10

Which board game features territories named Kamchatka, Irkutsk, and Yakutsk?

Accepted Answer

Risk

Answer

Axis & Allies

Answer

Diplomacy

Answer

Stratego