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What country is bisected by the green line
Cyprus
Who is the current chancellor of Germany
Olaf Scholz
What man reportedly died from a nosebleed on his wedding night
Atilla
What leader made his country the only one with a flag consisting of just one color
Gaddafi
What country was sometimes called the Bonn Republic
West Germany
What Austrian ruler established the Dual Monarchy in 1867
Franz Josef I
What country experienced a coup called the Ten Tragic Days which was backed by the US
Mexico
What city was Charlemagne’s capital
Aachen
What explorer’s first 2 voyages were sponsored by the Muscovy company
Henry Hudson
What British PM succeeded Margaret Thatcher
John Major
What people had FUG branded on their heads if they wanted to leave
Roman slaves
What treaty laid the foundation for the EU
Maastricht treaty
What figure is represented by the ruler Gloriana in and Edmund Spenser epic
Elizabeth I
What Soviet leader succeeded Stalin
Khruschev
What sea’s historic ports include Sinope and Trabzon
Black sea
What country and it’s eastern neighbor are seperated by the Stanca-Costesti dam
Romania
What war’s surprise attacks were planned by defense minister Moshe Dayan
3rd Arab-Israeli war (6 day war)
After what battle did the US seize the black hills from the Sioux
Little Bighorn
What president wrote Notes on the State of Virginia where argues for seperation of church and state
Thomas Jefferson
After what war did Golda Meir step down
Yom Kippur war
What king oversaw the expulsion of Jews starting in the late 13th century
Edward I
What empire sent the black fleet to settle North Africa
France
In what city did the sit-in movement begin
Greensboro (North Carolia)
What country did Napoleon III help win independence afting helping at the battle of Solferino against Austria
Italy
In what rebellion did many Cossacks fight in
Pugachev’s rebellion
What empress did Pugachev’s rebellion oppose
Catherine the great
What man was the advisor and lover of Catherine the great
Grigory Potemkin
What tennis player had HIV and died a year later
Arthur Ashe
What royal house’s defeat is described in the song Hey Johnnie Cope
Hanover
What British explorer translated Arabian Nights into English
Francis Burton
What man was killed at a parade marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur war
Anwar Al-Sadat
What state has a feature sometimes described as a wrinkle in the Earth that runs through Capitol Reef National Park
Utah
What autonomous Spanish community includes the provinces Granada and Seville
Andalusia
What country’s atlantic coastline features the Ring of Kerry
Ireland
What region also known as the azure coast contains the city of niece
French Riviera
What collection by Rudyard Kipling talks about how the camel got his hump and the leopard got his spots
Just so stories for Little Children
What citizen-king of France took power in 1830 after the July Revolution
Louis Philippe
What dynasty was Louis-Phillipe a part of
House of Bourbon
In what year was Louis-Phillipe toppled by the French revolution
1848
What man’s mother threatened to cut him off if he married Lucy Mercer
FDR
What general primarily led the Mexicans in the Mexican American war
Santa Anna
What man led the California theater of the Mexican American war and was nicknamed the pathfinder
John C Fremont
What war killed impressionist Frederic Bazille
Franco-Prussian War
What empire defeated Faisal I at the battle of Maysalun to end an “Arab Kingdom” in the area it claimed under the Sykes-Picot agreement
France
What type of people were persecuted after a group of them assassinated Indira Gahndi
Sikhs
What leader wrote about the Social Basis of the Third International Theory in his green book
Gadaffi
What 1962 supreme court case decided that the supreme court was allowed to hear redistricting cases
Baker v Carr
What country’s current leader came into power because of a traffic light coalition
Germany
What uprising attempted to reinstall the house of Stuart on the English throne
Jacobite rising
What country’s clan system was destroyed after the battle of Culloden Moor which ended the second jacobite rising
Scotland
What city’s army was led by Hector in the Iliad
Troy
What Holy roman emperor walked to the castle of Canossa to beg Pope Gregory the 7th to reverse his excommunication
Henry the 4th
What son of Henry the Fowler defeated the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld
Otto the great
What state was the battle of Antietam fought
Maryland
What ruler used the phrase Independence or Death to declare independence from Portugal
Dom Pedro I
What was the puppet state in Manchuria called after Japan invaded
Manchukuo
What building does the prime meridian pass through
Royal Observatory
What man was assassinated shortly after moving out of Diego Rivera’s home
Trotsky
What country had a crackdown on Christianity in the 1600s and forced Christians to transform statues of Mary into the buddah
Japan
What country’s northern mountains are home to an extremely popular 192 mile footpath called the coast to coast walk
United Kingdom
What president used Texas businessman Colonel House as a foreign policy advisor
Wilson
What island contains the buddhist monument of Borobudur
Java
What colony’s government was laid out in the Mayflower compact
Plymouth
What war was fought in the 1630s between native americans and many colonies
Pequot war
What plymouth colony military leader led several attacks including the Nemasket raid
Myles Standish
What world leader is head of the Likud party
Benjamin Netanyahu
What country was the target of the Macartney mission
China
What group was led by admiral Gaspard de Coligny and was massacred in 1572
Huguenots
What initiative directed funds to aid in reconstructing Europe after WW2
Marshall plan
What president ran the US Food Administration during WW1
Hoover
What state contains the northern part of the Klamath mountains
Oregon
What country was led by the Shah dynasty until 2008
Nepal
Who founded the New England anti-slavery society
William Lloyd Garrison
What Russian czar ruled during the 1863 Janurary Uprising in Poland
Alexander II
What country did the Don Pacifico affair begin in
Greece
What river’s tributaries creates Murchison Falls
Nile
What country’s navy was crushed at the battle of Noryang Point in 1598
Japan
What river flows between the cities of Honfleur and Le Havre
Seine River
What archbishop resisted the constitutions of Clarendon angered Henry II
Thomas Becket
In what colony was John Peter Zenger acquitted of libelling governor William Cosby
New York
What region’s council of ten isolated artisan glassmakers on the island of Murano
Venice
What country was the site of the Bernhardt line of fortifications established by Albert Kesselring
Italy
What country’s city of Francistown was the center of a gold rush in the 1860’s
Botswana
What people often conducted religious ceremonies at limestone sinkholes known as cenotes pacal
Mayan
What country was the first that Columbus landed on
The Bahamas
What city is the capital of Palestine
Ramallah
What president’s secretary of the navy, George Bancroft, established the Naval Academy
James K Polk
What man designed Wardenclyffe Tower
Nikola Tesla
What group of islands are Tenerife and Las Palmas in
Canary Islands
What war’s last major battle was decided by the intervention of the Stanley Brothers
War of the Roses
What tsar ruled Russia at the end of the Crimean War
Alexander II
What man met with Simon Bolivar was the first president of Peru
Jose de San Martin
What Irish general helped liberate Chile
Bernardo O’Higgins
What rival of Martin Van Buren supported the construction of the Erie Canal
Dewitt Clinton
What country was defeated by Henry the eighth at Flodden Field
Scotland
What man ordered the four pests campaign which attempted to kill all rats, flies, mosquitos, and sparrows
Mao Zedong
Who was Grover Cleveland’s opponent in the election of 1884
James Blaine
What political cartoonist developed the republican elephant and the Democratic donkey
Thomas Nast
Who was the first black mayor of Chicago
Harold Washington
What program’s second phase included the Wagner Act and the Rural Electrification Act
New Deal
