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The Zumalakarregi Museum is open to the world at large. For this reason, we cordially invite you, wherever you may be, to take part in this quiz which aims to test your knowledge of the 19th century. 

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1.


 

1788 

Tomas Zumalakarregi is born in Ormaiztegi 
(Gipuzkoa, Spain). 

B e t w e e n  . . .

The British government founds a city in a vast land in the antipodes. Most of the colonists are convicts. What was the name of the city?


 Honolulu
 Sidney
Poitier



 
2.


 

1807 

Napoleon’s soldiers cross the border posing as allies. 

B e t w e e n   . . . 

A new ship brings about a revolution in sea travel. Why? What was so special about it? 


 It was a steamship
  It was the biggest
 It was a submarin



 
 
3.
 


 

1813
Allies come to fight against Napoleon’s soldiers burn the city of San Sebastian to the ground. 

B e t w e e n  . . .

A South American independence fighter with a Basque surname is given the nickname the Liberator. One of the newly-liberated countries was even named after him. Who was he?


 Ramon Bolivar
 Simon Bolueta
Simon Bolivar



 
4.

1821

The first regular stagecoach service is established from Madrid to Irun. 

B e t w e e n  . . .

Mankind sets foot on a cold land never before explored by humans. Where?


Antarctic
 Greenland
Alaska



 
5.

1834
Tomás Zumalakarregi defeats the liberal army time and time again during the 1st Carlist War. His brother Miguel, who was a liberal, asks him to swap sides. He refuses.

B e t w e e n   . . . 

German and Dutch farmers emigrate en masse to South Africa. What was the name given to these colonists?


 Bohemians
 Boers
Borrowers



 
6.

1839

The peace treaty is signed in Bergara between liberals and Carlists, and sealed with an embrace. 

B e t w e e n  . . . 

An invention that is to change the face of photography is officially unveiled in Paris. 
What was it?


 Cinema
 Video
 Photograph



 
7.

1848

Revolutions break out in many European countries, although the majority meet with little success. In the Basque Country, another Carlist War is attempted, although that too is doomed to failure. 

B e t w e e n   . . . 

 In America, California becomes the destination of thousands and thousands of people afflicted by a strange fever. What was happening?


 Hollywood is founded
 Buffalo hunt
The gold rush



 

1855

Eugenia de Montijo, the wife of the French emperor Napoleon III, makes the Basque coast fashionable when she starts going on holiday to Biarritz. 

B e t w e e n    . . . 

From 1853 to 1856, an explorer travelled right across Africa. I presume you know his name?


 Doctor Livingston
 Captain Cook 
King George



 
9.

1868

The revolution forces Isabel II into exile in France while she is on holiday in San Sebastián. 

B e t w e e n  . . .

An Asian empire begins its own very special revolution. Without losing any of its unique identity, it begins a process of western modernisation. 
What was this empire of the rising sun?



 
 
 
 

China
 Japan
Korea

 
10.

1876

The 2nd Carlist War ends.

B e t w e e  n  . . . 

The famous 7th Calvary of the United States, with General Custer at its head, is utterly defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Lakhota (Sioux) and Cheyenne tribes. 
Who was their chief? 


Sitting Bull
 Cochise
Jeronimo

 
 
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