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1
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What country is bisected by the green line

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Cyprus

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2
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Who is the current chancellor of Germany

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Olaf Scholz

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What man reportedly died from a nosebleed on his wedding night

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Atilla

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What leader made his country the only one with a flag consisting of just one color

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Gaddafi

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5
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What country was sometimes called the Bonn Republic

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West Germany

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6
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What Austrian ruler established the Dual Monarchy in 1867

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Franz Josef I

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7
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What country experienced a coup called the Ten Tragic Days which was backed by the US

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Mexico

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8
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What city was Charlemagne’s capital

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Aachen

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9
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What explorer’s first 2 voyages were sponsored by the Muscovy company

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Henry Hudson

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10
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What British PM succeeded Margaret Thatcher

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John Major

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11
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What people had FUG branded on their heads if they wanted to leave

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Roman slaves

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12
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What treaty laid the foundation for the EU

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Maastricht treaty

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13
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What figure is represented by the ruler Gloriana in and Edmund Spenser epic

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Elizabeth I

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14
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What Soviet leader succeeded Stalin

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Khruschev

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15
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What sea’s historic ports include Sinope and Trabzon

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Black sea

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16
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What country and it’s eastern neighbor are seperated by the Stanca-Costesti dam

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Romania

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17
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What war’s surprise attacks were planned by defense minister Moshe Dayan

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3rd Arab-Israeli war (6 day war)

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18
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After what battle did the US seize the black hills from the Sioux

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Little Bighorn

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19
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What president wrote Notes on the State of Virginia where argues for seperation of church and state

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Thomas Jefferson

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20
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After what war did Golda Meir step down

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Yom Kippur war

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21
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What king oversaw the expulsion of Jews starting in the late 13th century

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Edward I

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22
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What empire sent the black fleet to settle North Africa

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France

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23
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In what city did the sit-in movement begin

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Greensboro (North Carolia)

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24
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What country did Napoleon III help win independence afting helping at the battle of Solferino against Austria

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Italy

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25
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In what rebellion did many Cossacks fight in

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Pugachev’s rebellion

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26
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What empress did Pugachev’s rebellion oppose

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Catherine the great

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27
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What man was the advisor and lover of Catherine the great

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Grigory Potemkin

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28
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What tennis player had HIV and died a year later

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Arthur Ashe

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29
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What royal house’s defeat is described in the song Hey Johnnie Cope

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Hanover

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30
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What British explorer translated Arabian Nights into English

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Francis Burton

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31
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What man was killed at a parade marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur war

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Anwar Al-Sadat

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32
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What state has a feature sometimes described as a wrinkle in the Earth that runs through Capitol Reef National Park

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Utah

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33
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What autonomous Spanish community includes the provinces Granada and Seville

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Andalusia

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34
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What country’s atlantic coastline features the Ring of Kerry

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Ireland

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35
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What region also known as the azure coast contains the city of niece

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French Riviera

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36
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What collection by Rudyard Kipling talks about how the camel got his hump and the leopard got his spots

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Just so stories for Little Children

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37
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What citizen-king of France took power in 1830 after the July Revolution

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Louis Philippe

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38
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What dynasty was Louis-Phillipe a part of

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House of Bourbon

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39
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In what year was Louis-Phillipe toppled by the French revolution

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1848

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40
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What man’s mother threatened to cut him off if he married Lucy Mercer

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FDR

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41
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What general primarily led the Mexicans in the Mexican American war

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Santa Anna

42
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What man led the California theater of the Mexican American war and was nicknamed the pathfinder

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John C Fremont

43
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What war killed impressionist Frederic Bazille

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Franco-Prussian War

44
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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

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France

45
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What type of people were persecuted after a group of them assassinated Indira Gahndi

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Sikhs

46
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What leader wrote about the Social Basis of the Third International Theory in his green book

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Gadaffi

47
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What 1962 supreme court case decided that the supreme court was allowed to hear redistricting cases

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Baker v Carr

48
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What country’s current leader came into power because of a traffic light coalition

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Germany

49
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What uprising attempted to reinstall the house of Stuart on the English throne

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Jacobite rising

50
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What country’s clan system was destroyed after the battle of Culloden Moor which ended the second jacobite rising

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Scotland

51
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What city’s army was led by Hector in the Iliad

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Troy

52
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What Holy roman emperor walked to the castle of Canossa to beg Pope Gregory the 7th to reverse his excommunication

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Henry the 4th

53
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What son of Henry the Fowler defeated the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld

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Otto the great

54
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What state was the battle of Antietam fought

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Maryland

55
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What ruler used the phrase Independence or Death to declare independence from Portugal

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Dom Pedro I

56
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What was the puppet state in Manchuria called after Japan invaded

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Manchukuo

57
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What building does the prime meridian pass through

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Royal Observatory

58
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What man was assassinated shortly after moving out of Diego Rivera’s home

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Trotsky

59
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What country had a crackdown on Christianity in the 1600s and forced Christians to transform statues of Mary into the buddah

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Japan

60
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What country’s northern mountains are home to an extremely popular 192 mile footpath called the coast to coast walk

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United Kingdom

61
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What president used Texas businessman Colonel House as a foreign policy advisor

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Wilson

62
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What island contains the buddhist monument of Borobudur

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Java

63
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What colony’s government was laid out in the Mayflower compact

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Plymouth

64
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What war was fought in the 1630s between native americans and many colonies

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Pequot war

65
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What plymouth colony military leader led several attacks including the Nemasket raid

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Myles Standish

66
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What world leader is head of the Likud party

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Benjamin Netanyahu

67
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What country was the target of the Macartney mission

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China

68
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What group was led by admiral Gaspard de Coligny and was massacred in 1572

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Huguenots

69
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What initiative directed funds to aid in reconstructing Europe after WW2

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Marshall plan

70
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What president ran the US Food Administration during WW1

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Hoover

71
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What state contains the northern part of the Klamath mountains

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Oregon

72
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What country was led by the Shah dynasty until 2008

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Nepal

73
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Who founded the New England anti-slavery society

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William Lloyd Garrison

74
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What Russian czar ruled during the 1863 Janurary Uprising in Poland

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Alexander II

75
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What country did the Don Pacifico affair begin in

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Greece

76
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What river’s tributaries creates Murchison Falls

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Nile

77
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What country’s navy was crushed at the battle of Noryang Point in 1598

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Japan

78
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What river flows between the cities of Honfleur and Le Havre

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Seine River

79
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What archbishop resisted the constitutions of Clarendon angered Henry II

A

Thomas Becket

80
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In what colony was John Peter Zenger acquitted of libelling governor William Cosby

A

New York

81
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What region’s council of ten isolated artisan glassmakers on the island of Murano

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Venice

82
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What country was the site of the Bernhardt line of fortifications established by Albert Kesselring

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Italy

83
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What country’s city of Francistown was the center of a gold rush in the 1860’s

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Botswana

84
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What people often conducted religious ceremonies at limestone sinkholes known as cenotes pacal

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Mayan

85
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What country was the first that Columbus landed on

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The Bahamas

86
Q

What city is the capital of Palestine

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Ramallah

87
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What president’s secretary of the navy, George Bancroft, established the Naval Academy

A

James K Polk

88
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What man designed Wardenclyffe Tower

A

Nikola Tesla

89
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What group of islands are Tenerife and Las Palmas in

A

Canary Islands

90
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What war’s last major battle was decided by the intervention of the Stanley Brothers

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War of the Roses

91
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What tsar ruled Russia at the end of the Crimean War

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Alexander II

92
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What man met with Simon Bolivar was the first president of Peru

A

Jose de San Martin

93
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What Irish general helped liberate Chile

A

Bernardo O’Higgins

94
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What rival of Martin Van Buren supported the construction of the Erie Canal

A

Dewitt Clinton

95
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What country was defeated by Henry the eighth at Flodden Field

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Scotland

96
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What man ordered the four pests campaign which attempted to kill all rats, flies, mosquitos, and sparrows

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Mao Zedong

97
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Who was Grover Cleveland’s opponent in the election of 1884

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James Blaine

98
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What political cartoonist developed the republican elephant and the Democratic donkey

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Thomas Nast

99
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Who was the first black mayor of Chicago

A

Harold Washington

100
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What program’s second phase included the Wagner Act and the Rural Electrification Act

A

New Deal

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