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Big History Quiz

Do you consider yourself a master historian? Then this is the quiz for you! From the Industrial Revolution to the founding of NATO and the UN, you’ll face challenging and fun questions about countries from all over the world. It’s time to show what you’ve got!

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The word ‘harvest’ is an old Norse word which means to ‘gather or pluck'. As people moved around to different cites, ‘harvest’ fell out of use and the city folk began to use ‘fall of the leaf’ which was shortened to just simply ‘fall’ – which is what is commonly used today.

It might take some time to find lost things again. An Austrian fisherman dropped his wallet in a lake. 20 years later, he found it in his fishnet. And weirdly, there is a comparatively large number of people who found their long-lost wedding rings in the carrot bed...

Cisco, and not Apple, made the first mobile device to be called an iPhone. Apple announced its iPhone 22 days after Cisco made its announcement. Though Cisco sued for trademark infringement, both companies were ultimately allowed to use the name. Apple’s iPhone took off, and, chances are you haven’t heard of the Cisco iPhone.

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