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Where was the peace treaty ending World War I signed?
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What is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact?
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Who first united the Mongol tribes?
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What is the ancient egyption system of writing in pictograms called?
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What famous structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?
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What country was first to grant women the right to vote in elections?
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How did the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra die?
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What passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Kinsale, Ireland, in World War I?
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On what US battleship did the Japanese surrender to end World War II?
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What african annimal did Carthaginian general Hannibal bring across the Alps into Italy?
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In the War of the Roses, which house, Lancaster or York, used a red rose as its symbol?
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What is celebrated on VE and VJ days?
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What does NATO stand for?
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What European country was swept by 'tulip mania' in the seventeenth century?
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Who was dictator of Cuba before Fidel Castro took over?
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On what island did Minoan civilization develop?
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What Greek historian is called the "Father of History"?
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What did the Egyptians write on, instead of paper?
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What passageway opened on August 15th, 1914?
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What two countries divided the Americas for conquest according to ther Treaty of Tordesillas?
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Who wrote Das Kapital?
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What Italian explorer was America named for?
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What became the first independent nation in Latin America, in 1800?
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Who wrote The Peloponnesian Wars?
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What 'unsinkable' luxury liner collided with an iceberg and sank in 1912?
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What country experienced the 'Velvet Revolution"?
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What ancient city on the island of Crete was excavated by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans?
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Name the two brothers who founded Rome.
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Where did General Douglas McArthur 'return' to?
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This war ended with an armistice signed at 11 AM on November 11th.
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What middle eastern event lasted from June 5th to June 11th, 1967?
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Who crowned Napoleon as Emperor of France?
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What exploded at Lakehurst, NJ, on May 6, 1937?
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What began with the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand?
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What war started with "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"?
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He tutored the young Alexander the Great.
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Who was the first President of Turkey?
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He was the onlyE nglishman to ever become Pope, in the 12th century.
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This Byzantine general serving under Emperor Justinian I, conquered the Vandals in Africa and the Ostrogoths in Italy.
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In this battle, which took place in 1415, 9,000 English troops with English longbows under Henry V defeated 60,000 French troops hampered by rain soaked ground and heavy armor.
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Who 'Crossed the Rubicon' in 49 BC?
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In this battle of 331 BC, Alexander the Great defeated Darius III and overthrew the Persian Empire.
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Who was Albert of Saxe-Coburg Gotha (1819-1861) married to?
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The Romans calld this land Albion, meaning 'white land', probably for it's white coastal cliffs.
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He was the son of Philip II of Macedonia, born in 356 BC.
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He was Julius Caesar's adopted son and, after Caesar's assassination, became the first Roman Emperor.
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It reduced the population of Europe by one third in the period from 1347 to 1351.
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This arrangement of standing stones, dated to 1600 BC, located 8 kilometers west of Marlborough in Wiltshire, is larger than Stonehenge.
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In what year did the Spanish Armada sail for England, and how many English ships were destroyed by the Spanish fleet of 130 ships.
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This term was coined by the ancient Greeks originally to mean people who could not speak Greek.
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He was Prime Minister of Prussia before serving as a united Germany's 'Iron Chancellor' from 1871 to 1890.
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The storming of this prison fortress and its destruction on July 14th, 1789, marked the begining of the French Revolution.
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Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1162, he was murdered in the cathedral by four knights of Henry II.
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This Buddhist Emperor, son of Chandragupta, ruled much of India in the late 3rd century BC.
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This name is given to the German annexation of Austria in March of 1938.
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Known simply as The Liberator, his revolutionary forces fought an estimated 200 battles against Spanish colonial forces.
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He was the first Bishop of Canterbury.
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Whose armies were defeated by Octavian and Mark Anthony at Philippi in 42 BC?
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Name the two forms of Plague.
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During what war by the British, French, and Turks against the Russians, did the Charge of the Light Brigade occur?
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What war ended with the Battle of Bosworth Field?
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This Empire, founded by Constantine in 330 AD, lasted until 1453 and, at it's peak, included most of the Mediterranean's coastline.
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Who was told to 'Beware the Ides of March' in 44 BC?
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Who was the first English monarch to live in Buckingham Palace, in 1837?
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This religion was founded by Sidharta Guatama 2,500 years ago.
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