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The History Quiz - (Passive - B2.1)

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  • Which first ____ in 2006? (APPEAR)
    smartphones
    blu-ray discs
    tablets
  • Which famous American ____ on 4th April 1968? (ASSASSINATE)
    Bobby Kennedy
    Malcolm X
    Martin Luther King
  • Why ____ the British royal family ____ its name from "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" to "Windsor" in 1917? (CHANGE)
    because it was too difficult to pronounce
    because it sounded too German
    because it was too long
  • Who ____ champagne in 1697? (INVENT)
    Dom Perignon
    Monsieur Moët
    Monsieur Freixenet
  • Who was the American president when the Berlin Wall ____ first ____ in 1961? (BUILD)
    Richard Nixon
    Bill Clinton
    John F Kennedy
  • In what year ____ Tsar Nicholas II and his family ____ by the Bolsheviks? (KILL)
    1917
    1918
    1916
  • In which city ____ the second Olympic Games of the modern era ____ place in 1900? (TAKE)
    Athens
    Paris
    Rome
  • What ____ Swiss women finally ____ to do in 1971? (ALLOW)
    open a bank account
    vote in national elections
    get a divorce
  • When ____ the first Hollywood film ____ ? (MAKE)
    1920
    1910
    1930
  • The sale of what ____ in the USA in January 1920? (BAN)
    cigarettes
    alcohol
    tobacco
  • Who ____ the ancient city of Troy, acoording to Homer? (ATTACK)
    the Egyptians
    the Persians
    the Greeks
  • In 1922, a 14-year-old boy ____ the first human experimental dose of what? (GIVE)
    penicillin
    insulin
    paracetamol
  • When ____ bar codes first ____ ? (USE)
    the 1960s
    the 1970s
    the 1980s
  • When ____ the electric washing machine ____? (INTRODUCE)
    1918
    1928
    1908
  • Who ____ his thoughts in a "Little Red Book"? (WRITE)
    Gandhi
    Lenin
    Mao Zedong
  • Which Italian city ____ when a volcano erupted in 79 AD? (DESTROY)
    Naples
    Rome
    Pompeii