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COMS268 Demo 1
COMS268 Demo 1
COMS268 Demo 1
a. 1756
b. !1789
c. 1799
d. 1823
2. Which of these countries was sea charted in 1500 by the Portuguese maritime
explorations?
a. India
b. Mozambique
c. Madagascar
d. !Brazil
3. Which famous world leader is famed for the saying, quot;Let them eat cakequot;,
yet is rumored that heshe never said it at all?
a. Henry VIII
b. Czar Nicholas II
c. !Marie Antoinette
d. Elizabeth I
4. Which Apollo mission was the last one in NASA039;s Apollo program?
a. !Apollo 17
b. Apollo 11
c. Apollo 15
d. Apollo 13
6. What year did the Boxing Day earthquake amp; tsunami occur in the Indian Ocean?
a. 2006
b. 2008
c. 2002
d. !2004
7. What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
a. Iskander Bejko
b. Mirash Krasniki
c. Diturak Zhulati
d. !Gjergj Kastrioti
8. What was the name of the planned invasion of Japan towards the end of World War
II?
a. Operation Ironclad
b. !Operation Downfall
c. Operation Boarding Party
d. Operation Aflame
9. Who was the last Roman emperor in the Year of Four Emperors 69 AD?
a. !Vespasian
b. Galba
c. Otho
d. Vitellius
4. Which Greek amp; Roman god was known as the god of music, truth and prophecy,
healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more?
a. !Apollo
b. Aphrodite
c. Athena
d. Artemis
8. The Maori hold that which island nation was founded by Kupe, who discovered it
under a long white cloud?
a. Hawaii
b. !New Zealand
c. Fiji
d. Vanuatu
10. Who is a minor god that is protector and creator of various arts, such as
cheese making and bee keeping.
a. Carme
b. !Aristaeus
c. Autonoe
d. Cephisso
3. This Greek goddess039;s name was chosen for the dwarf planet responsible for
discord on Pluto039;s classification amongst astronomers.
a. Ceres
b. !Eris
c. Charon
d. Dysnomia
4. Which figure from Greek mythology traveled to the underworld to return his wife
Eurydice to the land of the living?
a. Hercules
b. Daedalus
c. !Orpheus
d. Perseus
7. The Roman god quot;Jupiterquot; was first known as quot;Zeusquot; to the Greeks.
a. !True
b. False