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Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Q: In which year did Brunei gain independence fro Britain?
A: 1984.
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Q: What country sold land including the present-day states of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma to the USA in 1803?
A: France.
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Q: Which British monarch married Anne of Denmark?
A: James I.
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Q: In which year did Dublin's Easter Rising take place?
A: 1816.
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Q: Which US president was shot five days after the end of the American Civil War?
A: Abraham Lincoln.
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Q: In which battle did Harold II, the last Saxon king, lose his life?
A: Battle of Hastings.
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Q: "What was the name of the Austrian-born dictator who succeeded Hindenburg as Germany's head of state?
A: Adolf Hitler.
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Q: Who was the black educationist who was born a slave but became a leader in the search for civil rights in the early 1900s?
A: Booker T. Washington.
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Q: Which French revolutionary was nicknamed "the Incorruptible"?
A: Robespierre.
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Q: Where did Florence Nightingale establish a hospital to treat casualties of the Crimean War?
A: Scutari.
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Q: Which rebellion was effectively ended by the Battle of Culloden?
A: Jacobite rebellion.
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Q: What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, now in ruins?
A: Jamestown.
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Q: Who was the first president of independent Kenya?|
A: Jomo Kenyatta.
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Q: Who proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949?
A: Mao Zedong.
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Q: Which country was ruled by the Romanov dynasty 1613-1917?
A: Russia.
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Q: Which country's liberalization program was halted by the invasion of 600,000 Soviet troops in 1968?
A: Czechoslovakia.
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Q: Which Axis Power changed sides during World War II, declaring war on Germany in October 1943?
A: Italy.
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Q: Who was the first democratically elected Marxist head of state?
A: Salvador Allende.
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Q: What was the name of the basalt slab that became the key for deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics?
A: Rosetta Stone.
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