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A History Quiz
Average Score: 6
62% knows the answer to this question:
"The first of its type, what opened in 1828?
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"What is the name of the Titan, a famous mythological figure, and Greek hero who stole fire from the gods and gave it to men?"
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This old quiz will make you feel young again!
Average Score: 7
87% knows the answer to this question:
"Who was arrested for killing Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995?
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"Who was one of the people that President Richard Nixon raced against during his first election in 1968?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
30% knows the answer to this question:
"An American what and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft linked up in orbit in 1975?
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"In 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadottir was Iceland's first President who was also what?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
65% knows the answer to this question:
"During which War was 'The Battle of Princeton' fought in the 1770s?
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"Who was Edward Jenner?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
37% knows the answer to this question:
"The Battle of the Somme took place during which conflict?
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"What country did General Manuel Noriega run in the 1980's?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 6
33% knows the answer to this question:
"What Hollywood actress did John Hinckley, Jr. try to impress by shooting Ronald Reagan in 1981?
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"Who was Jawaharlal Nehru?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
81% knows the answer to this question:
"In which century was post-war Labour minister Aneurin Bevan born?
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"Who assumed the new office of executive President of Zimbabwe in 1987?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
50% knows the answer to this question:
"In 1966, Nguyen Van Be supposedly blew himself up to stop an enemy advance, shouting: "Long live the National Front for Liberation! Death to the US imperialists!" He was actually captured after jumping into a river. What country celebrated his patriotic courage anyway?
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"In what city was Islam founded in the early 610s AD?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 7
39% knows the answer to this question:
"What did a shepherd boy discover at Qumran, Jordan, in 1947?
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"Thanks to a French investment bubble in the Mississippi Valley in the 1700s, flamboyant financier John Law is said to have been the first person to hold what monetary status?"
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History
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82% knows the answer to this question:
"By 1957, membership in what US political party had fallen below 10,000, about 15% of whom were FBI informants?
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"What was the brutal Wallachian Prince Vlad III posthumously dubbed?"
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History
Average Score: 7
42% knows the answer to this question:
"Truganini was the last full-blooded Aboriginal from what Australian island, one of the few survivors of the Black War against the whites?
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"Which US President was born in 1809?"
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History Quiz
Average Score: 8
95% knows the answer to this question:
"Saigo Takamori is known by what sobriquet, given his heroic last stand against the Meiji government in the Battle of Shiroyama?
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"What were you referring to if you talked about a Mackintosh in 1824?"