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Random History #2
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Last updated: March 22, 2023
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| First submitted | March 21, 2023 |
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1.
In 1962, missiles installed on what island nearly led the USA and USSR to war?
Hispaniola
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Cuba
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Oahu
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Midway Atoll
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2.
What was the name of the first man-made satellite in space?
Vostok
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Mir
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Sputnik
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Gemini
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3.
Which of these empires was centered in what is now Mexico?
Olmec
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Incan
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Mughal
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Ottoman
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4.
Which of these US states was once an independent country?
Texas
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Florida
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New York
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Alaska
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5.
Which of these US states was not once an independent country?
California
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Hawaii
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Louisiana
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Vermont
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6.
Which country handed control of Macau back to China in 1999?
United States
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United Kingdom
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Spain
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Portugal
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7.
Which of these men was a leader of the Protestant Reformation?
Torquemada
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John Calvin
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Johann Tetzel
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Thomas Aquinas
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8.
Which battle marked the decline of Spartan hegemony and the rise of Thebes?
Leuctra
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Marathon
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Crocus Field
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Adrianople
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9.
What modern-day country wasn't a part of the Roman Empire?
Ireland
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Switzerland
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Portugal
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Slovenia
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10.
The first reliably reported battle in world history was the Battle of…?
Actium
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Zama
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Megiddo
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Pharsalus
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11.
Who died of a nosebleed on his wedding night?
Julius Caesar
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Attila the Hun
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Spartacus
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Alexander the Great
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12.
Which historian wrote a history of Rome called Ab Urbe Condita?
Horace
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Sallust
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Catullus
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Livy
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13.
Which island was never settled by native peoples of the Americas?
Cuba
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Jamaica
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Hispaniola
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Bermuda
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14.
Which European people have spoken a non-Indo European language for millenia?
Greeks
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Basques
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Russians
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Germans
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15.
Which actress starred in the title role in the 1963 movie Cleopatra?
Julie Andrews
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Elizabeth Taylor
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Greta Garbo
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Marilyn Monroe
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Zupity
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Level 66
Mar 22, 2023
Questions 8 and 9 are the same. I got 9 right, lucky guess, because Ireland was not critical to ancient Greece.
jbro
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Level 68
Mar 22, 2023
Sorry, I meant to put another question there, It will be fixed.
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