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What Egyptian ruler sided with Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium?

  • Cleopatra
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What Egyptian Queen took power and named herself Pharaoh?

  • Hatshepsut
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What Egyptian monster feasts on the heart of someone unworthy of eternal life?

  • Ammut
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What does the Russian newspaper's name "Pravda" mean in English?

  • Truth
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What does GATT stand for?

  • General Agreement On Trade And Tariffs
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What disease swept through London, closing down all playhouses from 1592 to 1594?

  • Bubonic Plague
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What did the Russian people do with Vladimir Lenin's body after his death in 1924?

  • Displayed It Publicly
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What did the "Line of Demarcation" divide?

  • South America
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What did the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed by 62 nations, denounce?

  • War
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What did Louis Braille invent?

  • A Writing System For Blind People
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What did "Live Aid" raise money for?

  • Starving People In Africa
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What did France give to Vassar College at the end of World War I?

  • A Tank
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What did ancient Sumerians use to construct their homes?

  • Sun-Dried Clay Bricks
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What did a shepherd boy discover at Qumran, Jordan, in 1947?

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls
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What currency does the former Soviet republic of Belarus use?

  • The Rouble
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What country was the scene of the Boxer Uprising of 1900?

  • China
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What country was ruled by General Manuel Noriega until 1989?

  • Panama
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What country was Marco Polo from?

  • Italy
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What country produced the largest bomber of WWI?

  • Russia
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What country humiliated Russia in a 1904-05 war?

  • Japan
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What country had to give up ruling Korea after World War II?

  • Japan
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What country dominates the Jutland Peninsula?

  • Denmark
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What country did the Ming Dynasty take place?

  • China
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What country did King Hussein rule?

  • Jordan
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What country did Iraq invade in 1990, eventually leading to the Gulf War?

  • Kuwait
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What country did Iraq invade in 1990, based on claims of disputed oil?

  • Kuwait
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What country did General Manuel Noriega run in the 1980's?

  • Panama
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What color dresses do Chinese women traditionally wear on their wedding day?

  • Red
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What city was the site of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly?

  • London, England
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What city in Asia was designated by Spain as a royal and loyal city?

  • Manila
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What Central American waterway was officially opened in 1914?

  • Panama Canal
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What brought thousands of Irish immigrants to America?

  • Famine
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What broke up after President Gorbachev's resignation in 1991?

  • Soviet Union
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What British luxury liner was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915?

  • Lusitania
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What breed of dog was Boatswain, Lord Byron's beloved dog?

  • Newfoundland
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What birds protect the kingdom from the Tower of London?

  • Ravens
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What ancient people based their law on Hammurabi's Code?

  • Mesopotamians
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What airline owned the 747 blown up by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988?

  • Pan Am
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What African state fought a 31-year war for independence from Ethiopia?

  • Eritrea
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What accessory did Zippo Manufacturing Company introduce in 1933?

  • Cigarette Lighter
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What 19th century opera singer was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?

  • Jenny Lind
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Twenty-two months of negotiation and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement ended violence in what nation?

  • Northern Ireland
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To what British politician was Princess Diana directly related?

  • Winston Churchill
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The United Nations was founded after the conclusion of which war?

  • World War II
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The Suez Canal was nationalized by which country?

  • Egypt
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The study of the past is called?

  • History
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The sovereignty of which city was established by 1929's Lateran Treaty?

  • Vatican City
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The Sino-Japanese war was fought between Japan and which country?

  • China
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The "September Massacres" refers to the slaughter of political prisoners in what country?

  • France
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The Richard Nixon Presidential Library is located in which California city?

  • Yorba Linda
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