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Revolutions and Rebels

Global turning points, unlikely rebels and misleading dates. Twelve questions, with a few convincing wrong turns along the way.

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What was Haiti's principal French colonial name before independence?

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1. What was Haiti's principal French colonial name before independence?
- A. Martinique
- B. Saint-Domingue (answer)
- C. Guadeloupe
- D. New France
Haiti emerged from Saint-Domingue, not the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo.
2. What did the 1789 Tennis Court Oath promise?
- A. Restore feudal dues
- B. Immediately crown a new king
- C. Declare war on Austria
- D. Stay together until France had a constitution (answer)
The immediate commitment was constitutional government, not declaring a republic.
3. Who governed Russia immediately after Nicholas II's March 1917 abdication, using Gregorian dates?
- A. Provisional Government (answer)
- B. Bolshevik Council of People's Commissars
- C. Restored imperial cabinet
- D. Soviet Supreme Soviet
The Provisional Government followed the monarchy. Bolsheviks took power later in 1917.
4. What was central to the 1911 Mexican Plan of Ayala?
- A. Restoring Spanish rule
- B. Expanding the navy
- C. Restoring village lands and redistributing estates (answer)
- D. Moving the capital
Zapata and Montaño set out agrarian demands, including restitution and redistribution.
5. What occupation united the main rebels at the 1854 Eureka Stockade?
- A. Dock workers
- B. Goldminers (answer)
- C. Sheep farmers
- D. Railway engineers
Ballarat goldminers opposed goldfield administration, including the licence system.
6. What was the main rebel headquarters during Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising?
- A. Dublin Castle
- B. Custom House
- C. Trinity College
- D. General Post Office (answer)
Rebels occupied the GPO, where the proclamation of an Irish republic was read.
7. Which emperor did rebels approaching Delhi seek as a leader in May 1857?
- A. Bahadur Shah Zafar (answer)
- B. Akbar
- C. Shah Jahan
- D. Aurangzeb
They sought the elderly Mughal emperor, whose practical authority was limited.
8. Which dynasty fell in China's 1911-12 revolution?
- A. Ming
- B. Song
- C. Qing (answer)
- D. Tang
The revolution ended Qing rule and produced a republic. Ming rule had ended centuries earlier.
9. When did Congress approve the resolution for American independence in 1776?
- A. 4 July
- B. 2 July (answer)
- C. 2 August
- D. 17 September
Congress voted on 2 July, approved the Declaration text on 4 July and began its main signing on 2 August.
10. The Philippine declaration of 12 June 1898 proclaimed independence from whom?
- A. Portugal
- B. Netherlands
- C. Britain
- D. Spain (answer)
It dissolved claimed ties with Spain but did not secure immediate international recognition or uncontested sovereignty.
11. When did the United States formally recognise independent Haiti?
- A. 1862 (answer)
- B. 1804
- C. 1815
- D. 1823
Recognition came in 1862, decades after Haiti's 1804 independence.
12. Which Mexican president did the Plan of Ayala denounce?
- A. Porfirio Díaz
- B. Venustiano Carranza
- C. Francisco I. Madero (answer)
- D. Lázaro Cárdenas
The 1911 plan attacked Madero for failing to fulfil the movement's agrarian expectations.

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