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If you like the past then take this challenge!

Question 1 of 10

As a teenager, what Chinese philosopher became superintendent of corn inspectors?

Question 2 of 10

What king founded the Musketeers of the Guard in 1622?

Question 3 of 10

Barbados was one of the few Caribbean nations to spend its entire colonial history under one nation's rule. Which one?

Question 4 of 10

Who avenged the loss of the Alamo in just 20 minutes at the Battle of San Jacinto ... and thus won the war for Texas?

Question 5 of 10

The Romans kept the people happy with panem et circenses. What is panem et circenses?

Question 6 of 10

Jayaprakash Narayan was the loknayak (leader of the masses) who advocated a peaceful Total Revolution against what authoritarian leader in the 1970s?

Question 7 of 10

Founded in 335 BC by Aristotle, what would you have done at the Lyceum?

Question 8 of 10

Ambassador Louis Fields claimed that vice-presidential aide Jennifer Fitzgerald had an affair with what Republican?

Question 9 of 10

The GOP freshmen in the 1994 Congress called themselves the Dittohead Congress in honor of what conservative personality?

Question 10 of 10

What did the Reverend Increase Mather name his son, an amateur agronomist who supported smallpox inoculation?