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What country is bisected by the green line

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Cyprus

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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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What country was sometimes called the Bonn Republic

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West Germany

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What Austrian ruler established the Dual Monarchy in 1867

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Franz Josef I

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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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What city was Charlemagne’s capital

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Aachen

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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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What British PM succeeded Margaret Thatcher

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John Major

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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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What treaty laid the foundation for the EU

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Maastricht treaty

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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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What Soviet leader succeeded Stalin

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Khruschev

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What sea’s historic ports include Sinope and Trabzon

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Black sea

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

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Little Bighorn

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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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After what war did Golda Meir step down

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Yom Kippur war

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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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What empire sent the black fleet to settle North Africa

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France

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In what city did the sit-in movement begin

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Greensboro (North Carolia)

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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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In what rebellion did many Cossacks fight in
Pugachev's rebellion
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What empress did Pugachev's rebellion oppose
Catherine the great
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What man was the advisor and lover of Catherine the great
Grigory Potemkin
28
What tennis player had HIV and died a year later
Arthur Ashe
29
What royal house's defeat is described in the song Hey Johnnie Cope
Hanover
30
What British explorer translated Arabian Nights into English
Francis Burton
31
What man was killed at a parade marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur war
Anwar Al-Sadat
32
What state has a feature sometimes described as a wrinkle in the Earth that runs through Capitol Reef National Park
Utah
33
What autonomous Spanish community includes the provinces Granada and Seville
Andalusia
34
What country's atlantic coastline features the Ring of Kerry
Ireland
35
What region also known as the azure coast contains the city of niece
French Riviera
36
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
37
What citizen-king of France took power in 1830 after the July Revolution
Louis Philippe
38
What dynasty was Louis-Phillipe a part of
House of Bourbon
39
In what year was Louis-Phillipe toppled by the French revolution
1848
40
What man's mother threatened to cut him off if he married Lucy Mercer
FDR
41
What general primarily led the Mexicans in the Mexican American war
Santa Anna
42
What man led the California theater of the Mexican American war and was nicknamed the pathfinder
John C Fremont
43
What war killed impressionist Frederic Bazille
Franco-Prussian War
44
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
45
What type of people were persecuted after a group of them assassinated Indira Gahndi
Sikhs
46
What leader wrote about the Social Basis of the Third International Theory in his green book
Gadaffi
47
What 1962 supreme court case decided that the supreme court was allowed to hear redistricting cases
Baker v Carr
48
What country's current leader came into power because of a traffic light coalition
Germany
49
What uprising attempted to reinstall the house of Stuart on the English throne
Jacobite rising
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What country's clan system was destroyed after the battle of Culloden Moor which ended the second jacobite rising
Scotland
51
What city's army was led by Hector in the Iliad
Troy
52
What Holy roman emperor walked to the castle of Canossa to beg Pope Gregory the 7th to reverse his excommunication
Henry the 4th
53
What son of Henry the Fowler defeated the Magyars at the Battle of Lechfeld
Otto the great
54
What state was the battle of Antietam fought
Maryland
55
What ruler used the phrase Independence or Death to declare independence from Portugal
Dom Pedro I
56
What was the puppet state in Manchuria called after Japan invaded
Manchukuo
57
What building does the prime meridian pass through
Royal Observatory
58
What man was assassinated shortly after moving out of Diego Rivera's home
Trotsky
59
What country had a crackdown on Christianity in the 1600s and forced Christians to transform statues of Mary into the buddah
Japan
60
What country's northern mountains are home to an extremely popular 192 mile footpath called the coast to coast walk
United Kingdom
61
What president used Texas businessman Colonel House as a foreign policy advisor
Wilson
62
What island contains the buddhist monument of Borobudur
Java
63
What colony's government was laid out in the Mayflower compact
Plymouth
64
What war was fought in the 1630s between native americans and many colonies
Pequot war
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What plymouth colony military leader led several attacks including the Nemasket raid
Myles Standish
66
What world leader is head of the Likud party
Benjamin Netanyahu
67
What country was the target of the Macartney mission
China
68
What group was led by admiral Gaspard de Coligny and was massacred in 1572
Huguenots
69
What initiative directed funds to aid in reconstructing Europe after WW2
Marshall plan
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What president ran the US Food Administration during WW1
Hoover
71
What state contains the northern part of the Klamath mountains
Oregon
72
What country was led by the Shah dynasty until 2008
Nepal
73
Who founded the New England anti-slavery society
William Lloyd Garrison
74
What Russian czar ruled during the 1863 Janurary Uprising in Poland
Alexander II
75
What country did the Don Pacifico affair begin in
Greece
76
What river's tributaries creates Murchison Falls
Nile
77
What country's navy was crushed at the battle of Noryang Point in 1598
Japan
78
What river flows between the cities of Honfleur and Le Havre
Seine River
79
What archbishop resisted the constitutions of Clarendon angered Henry II
Thomas Becket
80
In what colony was John Peter Zenger acquitted of libelling governor William Cosby
New York
81
What region's council of ten isolated artisan glassmakers on the island of Murano
Venice
82
What country was the site of the Bernhardt line of fortifications established by Albert Kesselring
Italy
83
What country's city of Francistown was the center of a gold rush in the 1860's
Botswana
84
What people often conducted religious ceremonies at limestone sinkholes known as cenotes pacal
Mayan
85
What country was the first that Columbus landed on
The Bahamas
86
What city is the capital of Palestine
Ramallah
87
What president's secretary of the navy, George Bancroft, established the Naval Academy
James K Polk
88
What man designed Wardenclyffe Tower
Nikola Tesla
89
What group of islands are Tenerife and Las Palmas in
Canary Islands
90
What war's last major battle was decided by the intervention of the Stanley Brothers
War of the Roses
91
What tsar ruled Russia at the end of the Crimean War
Alexander II
92
What man met with Simon Bolivar was the first president of Peru
Jose de San Martin
93
What Irish general helped liberate Chile
Bernardo O'Higgins
94
What rival of Martin Van Buren supported the construction of the Erie Canal
Dewitt Clinton
95
What country was defeated by Henry the eighth at Flodden Field
Scotland
96
What man ordered the four pests campaign which attempted to kill all rats, flies, mosquitos, and sparrows
Mao Zedong
97
Who was Grover Cleveland's opponent in the election of 1884
James Blaine
98
What political cartoonist developed the republican elephant and the Democratic donkey
Thomas Nast
99
Who was the first black mayor of Chicago
Harold Washington
100
What program's second phase included the Wagner Act and the Rural Electrification Act
New Deal

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