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History quiz

Test your history knowledge with our weekly trivia quizzes brought to you by BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

Karl Marx. (Getty Images)

History quiz – engineers, explorers and Karl Marx

Louise, Queen of Denmark. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Im

History quiz - daughters and dukes

Aircrew in full flying kit walking beneath the nose of Short Stirling Mark I, N3

History quiz – paintings, rivalries and WW2 aircraft

A woodcut print of the medieval town of Pisa. (Historical Picture Archive/Corbis

History quiz – shambles, soldiers and medieval towns

‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty)

History quiz – Franco, Frankenstein and the French empire

Dreamstime.

History quiz – senators, cities and the Carnation Revolution

Dreamstime.

History quiz – time machines, murderers and photographers

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History quiz – Vikings, mobile phones and the Varangian Guard

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History quiz – Ranavalona, rookeries and Buddhist monks

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History quiz – Anglo-Saxons, Bright’s disease and the Byzantine army

Geoffrey Chaucer. (Getty Images)

History quiz – Chaucer, sailors and the Civil War

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History quiz – cars, card games and Charles Dickens

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History quiz – US presidents

John F Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy on a campaign in October 1960. (Paul Schutzer/

History quiz – Dames, JFK and the house of Gonzaga

Millicent Fawcett. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection//Corbis via Getty Images)

History quiz – chemicals, feminists and fishermen

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