In which year did the following happen: Thomas Jefferson founds the University of Virginia; Simón Bolívar liberates New Granada (now Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador) and he is named president of Colombia; The cavalry charges into a crowd of radical protesters in Manchester, England, resulting in 15 deaths and over 600 injuries in the Peterloo Massacre; Alabama is admitted as the 22nd U.S. state.
1819
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In which year did the following happen: U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba; Moscow announces putting first man in orbit around Earth, Major Yuri Gagarin; East Germans erect Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin to halt flood of refugees; Russia detonates the world's largest nuclear weapon ever constructed, 'Tsar Bomba' over Novaya Zemla, with the power of approx 3800 Hiroshima Bombs.
1961
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In which year did the following happen: John W. Hinckley, Jr., found not guilty because of insanity in shooting of President Reagan; Britain defeats Argentina in Falklands war; Princess Grace of Monaco dies in a car accident; Yuri Andropov succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union.
1982
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In which year did the following happen: Mahmoud Abbas wins presidency of the Palestinian Authority in a landslide; The Sudanese government and rebels from southern Sudan sign a peace agreementending a 20 year conflict; George W. Bush is officially sworn in for his second term as president; Benedict XVI becomes the new pope, following the death of John Paul II.
2005
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off a chain of events which led to what?
World War 1
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On April 26th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth was killed. Who was he famous for assassinating?
Abraham Lincoln
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On April 26th, 1936, Nazi Germany's official secret police were formed. What were they more commonly known as?
The Gestapo
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On April 26th, 1986, the meltdown at reactor 4 in the Chernobyl power plant caused the world's largest nuclear disaster. In which year did Chernobyl finally stop production of electricity?
2000
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Which famous leader said England is a nation of shopkeepers?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There were 7 wonders of the ancient world, of which only the Great Pyramid at Giza is still around. Name as many as you can of the other 6. 1 point for each.
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse at Alexandria
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Which country was formerly known as Siam?
Thailand
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Which English king married six times?
Henry VIII
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The first atom bomb was dropped on which Japanese city?
Hiroshima
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The Velocipede was a nineteenth-century prototype of what?
A bicycle
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Which animals took Hannibal over the Alps?
Elephants
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1 August 1990 saw 100,000 Iraqi troops invade which neighbouring state, sparking off the first Gulf War?
Kuwait
Tags: War,Which empire, led by which charismatic general, conquered a vast part of Europe (Hungary, most of Ukraine, much of Germany and Poland and parts of the Balkans) in the fifth century, before the empire dissolved just as quickly after the death of the leader?
The Huns
Led by Attila the Hun
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In which year did the Battle of Waterloo take place?
1815
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Whose rebel army threw the Spanish out of Venezuela in 1821?
Simon Bolivar
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Which country became the first to give women the vote in 1893?
New Zealand
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Which city was the first capital of the Russian Empire in the ninth century?
- Yeliky Novgorod
- Omsk
- St Petersburg
Yeliky Novgorod
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Who led the Gallic tribes in their resistance to Julius Caesar's Roman legions?
Vercingetorix
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The Soviet Union and seven other countries signed which mutual assistance treaty in 1955?
Warsaw Pact
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Who was the Scottish general, with his Coldstream Guards, who was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II as monarch in 1660?
General George Monck
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What was the first perforated UK postage stamp, issued in 1854?
Penny Red
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What name is given to 8 May to mark the unconditional surrender of the German Army at the end of World War II?
VE Day
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Which country was invaded during Operation Barbarossa?
USSR
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What was the nationality of dancer Mata Hari, shot as spy?
Dutch
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