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"What was the codename for the Allied invasion of France in 1944?
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"What seafaring people called the ocean the "whale road"?"
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"After I was killed, my old law partner William Herndon said the love of my life was actually Ann Rutledge, who died of typhoid in 1835. Who am I?"
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"Consumer activist Ralph Nader is said to have cost Al Gore the 2000 election by running for what party?"
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"Scottish hero William Wallace was 6'7" and used a large two-handed, double-edged sword. What was it called?"
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"Where were reformers crushed for trying to create "socialism with a human face" in the Prague Spring of 1968?
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"As HBO viewers might know, in June 1877, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane rolled into what rough mining town in the Black Hills?"
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"On what date did the Emancipation Proclamation take effect?"
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"Peter Leibing took a famous 1961 photo of Conrad Schumann jumping over something. What?
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"Which of these coincidences does not apply to the assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln?"
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"Richard J Daley ruled what city from 1955 to 1976, helping to elect national Democrats like JFK?
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"What city's Haifa Street, which enters into the Green Zone, was known to the US military as Grenade Alley and as Purple Heart Boulevard?"
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"Amelia Earhart vanished while trying to fly around the world. In which ocean did she disappear?"
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"If you called Minnesota liberal Eugene McCarthy by his middle name instead of his first name, you'd confuse him with what notorious right-winger from Wisconsin next door?"
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"The world's first Green party was the United Tasmania Group, which formed in what country?"
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"Hussein bin Ali had been Emir of Mecca and claimed to be caliph in 1924, after what country abolished the Ottoman Empire?
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"Thomas Franklin took a famous shot for the Bergen Record of firefighters raising the US flag. Where?"
