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'Wedding March'. 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing'. | Felix Mendelssohn | 86%
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This battle in September 1914 saw the failure of the German 'Schlieffen Plan', the prevention of the capture of Paris and the beginning of trench warfare. | First Battle of the Marne | 86%
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Austrian. Another self-serving powermonger. He chaired the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) which was a series of diplomatic meetings between the European powers after Napoleon had temporarily left the building. Ostensibly the negotiations were to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe. In reality they were to carve up Europe and to reach agreements on who got this and who got that. Napoleon returned to the building to look for his hat. After a hundred days of searching, he found it... and left the building again. Never to return. | Klemens von Metternich | 86%
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Founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists from 1932 until 1940 when it was confiscated by the British government. | Oswald Mosley | 71%
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Where would you find the towns of Larache, Meknes and Ouarzazate? | Morocco | 57%
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Who is regarded as the 'father' of the United States Air Force? | Billy Mitchell | 43%
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A weaver. Lantern Yard. Raveloe. Eppie (Hephzibah). Name novel. | Silas Marner | 43%
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What is the currency of Mozambique? | Metical | 29%
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This hollow-based projectile revolutionised musketry first in the Crimean War and later in the American Civil War. | Minie ball | 29%
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Which city was founded in 1669? | Manaus | 0%
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