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If you paid attention at school then this History quiz must be a breeze for you!
Question 1 of 10
The new industrialists built gas-lit factories close to the coalfields and rivers that powered them, and the workers followed, as cities swelled. What is the usual name for this period of British history?
Question 2 of 10
In 1982, Argentina invaded the Malvinas. What do the rest of us call the Malvinas?
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Question 3 of 10
On October 18, 1867, the US took possession of what territory, which it had bought from Russia for $7.2 million, or just 2 cents an acre?
Question 4 of 10
Robespierre, Danton and Marat were called Jacobins for a club near Rue St-Jacques, in what city?
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Question 5 of 10
What element was called "the flesh of the gods" by ancient Egyptians?
Question 6 of 10
The S in what president's middle name stood for both his grandfathers, whose names were Shippe and Solomon?
Question 7 of 10
In 1947, what balsa-wood raft did Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sail 6900 km from Peru to an archipelago near Tahiti?
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Question 8 of 10
Thorfinn Karlsefni set up a Viking colony in Vinland, but it only lasted three winters, in part due to warfare with the aboriginal Skraelings. Where do most scholars think Vinland was?
Question 9 of 10
What is the word we have changed in this quote from a famous speech? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me penguin!
Question 10 of 10
On December 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured in ad-Dawr near his home town Tikrit, in what was called Operation Red Dawn. Where did they find him?
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