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#1 What year was Canada founded in?
1867
#2 What was the aim of the "Umbrella Revolution" in Hong Kong in 2014?
Genuine universal suffrage
#3 What was the original name of New York City?
New Amsterdam
#4 The ancient city of Chichén Itzá was built by which civilization?
Mayans
#5 When was Adolf Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany?
January 30, 1933
#6 Which one of these rulers did not belong to the Habsburg dynasty?
Philip V
#7 When did Lithuania declare independence from the Soviet Union?
March 11th, 1990
#8 Which is the hull NO. of the Fletcher class destroyer Fletcher?
DD-445
#9 What is the name of the Boeing B-29 that dropped the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola Gay
#10 The son of which pope supposedly held a lecherous fête involving 50 courtesans in the papal palace?
Alexander VI
#11 Which of these theoretical phycisists first predicted the existence of antimatter?
Paul Dirac
#12 The Battle of Trafalgar took place on October 23rd, 1805
False
#13 In the Seven Wonders of the World, which wonder is the only that has survived to this day?
Great Pyramid of Giza
#14 When did Canada leave the confederation to become their own nation?
July 1st, 1867
#15 Who invented the "Flying Shuttle" in 1738; one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving?
John Kay
#16 What Southeast Asian country was formerly known as 'Lan Xang'?
Laos
#17 Who assassinated President James A. Garfield?
Charles Guiteau
#18 The Second Boer War in 1899 was fought where?
South Africa
#19 What did the abbreviation "RMS" stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?
Royal Mail Ship
#20 When was the SS or Schutzstaffel established?
April 4th, 1925
#21 What was the name of the German offensive operation in October 1941 to take Moscow before winter?
Operation Typhoon
#22 What was the last colony the UK ceded marking the end of the British Empire?
Hong Kong
#23 Which English king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?
Henry II
#24 When was the "Siege of Leningrad" lifted during World War II?
January 1944
#25 Which of the following was not one of Joseph Stalin's ten blows during World War II?
Vistula-Oder Offensive
#26 What year was the United States Declaration of Independence signed?
1776
#27 Which countries participated in the Lobster War?
France and Brazil
#28 The ontological argument for the proof of God's existence is first attributed to whom?
Anselm of Canterbury
#29 Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt in which country?
Haiti
#30 The USS Missouri (BB-63) last served in the Korean War.
False
#31 During World War I, which nation's monarchs were blood related?
England, Germany, Russia
#32 In the year 1900, what were the most popular first names given to boy and girl babies born in the United States?
John and Mary
#33 When did Spanish Peninsular War start?
1808
#34 Who was the last emperor of Mexico?
Ferdinand Maximilian
#35 What was Napoleon Bonaparte's name before he changed it?
Napoleone di Buonaparte
#36 Which of the following physicists did NOT work on the Manhattan project?
Murray Gell-Mann
#37 What was found in 1946 by two young shepards near a cave?
Dead Sea Scrolls
#38 Spain was formed in 1469 with the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of what other Iberian kingdom?
Aragon
#39 In which year did the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack occur?
1995
#40 Which naval battle was considered the turning point of the Pacific Ocean Theater during World War 2?
Battle of Midway
#41 Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold?
Surveyor to the City of London
#42 The Battle of Hastings was fought in which year?
1066
#43 When was Finland's 100th year of being independent?
2017
#44 What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
Gjergj Kastrioti
#45 What age was King Henry V when he died?
35
#46 Japan was part of the Allied Powers during World War I.
True
#47 What did the first vending machines in the early 1880's dispense?
Post cards
#48 How many sonatas did Ludwig van Beethoven write?
32
#49 Bohdan Khmelnytsky was which of the following?
Leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks
#50 During the Roman Triumvirate of 42 BCE, what region of the Roman Republic was given to Lepidus?
Hispania