Period
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Question
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Answer
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10,000 BCE - 1 BCE
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In what region was the world's first civilization in?
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Mesopotamia
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What period of human history means "New Stone Age"
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Neolithic
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What river in Pakistan hosted one of the earliest societies?
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Indus
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What is the Egyptian God of the Sun?
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Ra
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What structure was built in 3000 BCE in England?
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Stonehenge
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What ancient people built a civilization on Crete?
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Minoan
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Who was the Great Pyramid of Giza built for?
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Khufu
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Who is the founder of Judaism?
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Abraham
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Who founded the Academy at Athens?
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Plato
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What is Siddhartha Gautama better known as?
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Buddha
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What city was famous for hanging gardens?
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Babylon
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What city was burned from the inside by Greeks in 1200 BCE?
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Troy
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What animal went extinct on a Siberian Island in 1650 BC?
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Wooly Mammoth
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What Chinese philosopher developed the 100 Schools of Thought?
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Confucius
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Who supposedly founded Rome with his brother Remus?
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Romulus
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What Greek developed the best known geocentric model?
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Ptolemy
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What was the first empire to unite India
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Maurya Empire
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What island was home to an ancient "Colossus"?
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Rhodes
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What was the largest of the Phoenician colonies?
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Carthage
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What was invented in China using magnets around 200 BCE?
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Compass
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What language was the Torah written in?
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Hebrew
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What was the world's first democracy?
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Athens
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What was ancient Egypt's substitute for paper?
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Papyrus
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In what Greek city-state were the ancient olympics held?
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Olympia
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What city was the Temple of Solomon built in?
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Jerusalem
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What Egyptian queen only worshipped the sun?
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Nefertiti
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Who led his elephants across the alps?
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Hannibal
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What insect was domesticated by the Egyptians?
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Bee
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What empire was conquered by Alexander the Great?
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Persia
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1 CE - 399 CE
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Who was said to have been born on December 25th in Bethlehem?
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Jesus Christ
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What was the Roman name for France?
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Gaul
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What volcano destroyed Pompeii?
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Mount Vesuvius
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Who was the first Roman Emperor?
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Augustus
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What temple was dedicated to all Roman Gods?
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Pantheon
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What group of nomadic peoples was led by Atilla?
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Huns
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What was the Flavian Amphitheater better known as?
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Colosseum
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Who "Fiddled while Rome burned"?
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Nero
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What was the dominant empire in West Africa in 400 A.D?
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Ghana
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Who brought the Byzantine Empire to its greatest area?
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Justinian
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What African island was discovered by the Malay?
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Madagascar
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What was the largest church in Constantinople?
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Hagia Sophia
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400 CE - 999 CE
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What was the largest city of the Maya?
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Tikal
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In what city was Muhammad born?
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Mecca
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What game was invented in India, then adapted by the Muslim world?
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Chess
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In what battle did the Franks stop the spread of Islam in Europe?
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Battle of Tours
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Where was the Alhambra built?
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Granada
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Who was the first king of the Holy Roman Empire?
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Charlemagne
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What island was settled by vikings in 874?
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Iceland
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1000 CE - 1399 CE
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What is the name of the plague that caused the Black Death?
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Bubonic Plague
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What was the country of the pope?
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Papal States
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What cathedral's construction began in Paris in 1163?
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Notre Dame
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What system had serfs borrowing land from lords in exchange for military service?
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Feudalism
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Where was William the Conquerer from?
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Normandy
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What empire built Angkor Wat?
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Khmer
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What is the oldest university in England
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Oxford
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What country had conquered most of Asia by 1244?
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Mongols
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Who signed the Magna Carta?
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King John
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What European explorer famously met with Kublai Khan?
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Marco Polo
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Who was the norse god of thunder?
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Thor
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What king of Mali was said to be the richest man in history
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Mansa Musa
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What country gained independence from China in 1355?
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Tibet
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1400 CE - 1599 CE
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What woman led France to win the 100 years war?
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Joan of Arc
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What country conquered Constantinople from the Byzantines?
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Ottoman Empire
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What city did the Renaissance begin in?
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Florence
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What empire was ruled by Moctezuma?
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Aztec Empire
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Who was declared the "Enemy of Christianity" in the third crusade?
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Saladin
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1400 CE - 1599 CE
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What modern country did Christopher Columbus land in?
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Bahamas
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Who was the wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon?
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Isabella
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Who sculpted the statue of David?
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Michelangelo
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Who invented the Printing Press?
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Who fought the War of the Roses against Lancaster?
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York
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What disease killed most of the Inca?
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Smallpox
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What prince of Moscow was described as "terrible"?
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Ivan the Terrible
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Who started the Protestant Reformation?
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Martin Luther
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Who discovered Jupiter's moons?
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Galileo
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What explorer found a route from Portugal to India?
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Vasco de Gama
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What trading empire controlled Cyprus and Crete throughout the 1500s?
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Venice
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What country conquered Songhai?
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Morocco
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What country gained independence from Spain in 1573?
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Netherlands
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What was the title of the leader of the Mughal Empire?
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Sultan
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What city was Sir Walter Raleigh searching for around Lake Parime?
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El Dorado
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What was Shakespeare's first play?
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Henry VI
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Who explained the Three Laws of Motion?
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Isaac Newton
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1600 CE - 1799 CE
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What was the first British colony in North America?
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Jamestown
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What animal went extinct on Mauritius in the 1600s?
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Dodo Bird
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Who led the gunpowder plot?
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Guy Fawkes
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What city is famous for not one, but two defenestrations?
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Prague
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What structure, built by the Ming dynasty, is 8,500 km long?
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Great Wall of China
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What city burned down in 1666?
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London
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Who developed the Scientific Method?
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Francis Bacon
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What country colonized Angola?
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Portugal
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What was the home of Louis XIV?
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Versailles
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What region was the Seven Years war fought over?
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Ohio Valley
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What colony was founded by the people on the Mayflower?
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Plymouth
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What is the oldest college in the United States?
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Harvard
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What country was led by Maria Theresa?
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Austria
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Where did James Cook die?
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Hawaii
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What was the most important port of New France?
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New Orleans
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What monument was built by Shah Jahan in Agra?
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Taj Mahal
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What European capital was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1755?
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Lisbon
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Who invented the modern steam engine?
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James Watt
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What country was known as Joseon?
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Korea
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What city had a famous "Tea Party" in 1773?
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Boston
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On what island did the Industrial Revolution begin?
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Great Britain
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What queen of France was Austrian born?
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Marie Antoinette
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Who was the first U.S Secretary of State?
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Thomas Jefferson
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What was the use of the Bastille before it was stormed?
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Prison
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What was the second North American country to gain independence?
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Haiti
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Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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What is Eli Whitney's most famous invention?
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Cotton Gin
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1800 CE - 1849 CE
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Who wrote the Moonlight Sonata?
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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What war was fought between the U.S and Canada
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War of 1812
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What battle was Napoleon's downfall?
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Battle of Waterloo
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Which religious branch was founded by Joseph Smith?
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Mormonism
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What Native American tribe was forced through the Trail of Tears?
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Cherokee
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What artifact helped translate hieroglyphics?
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Rosetta Stone
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Who helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition?
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Sacagawea
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What country was the border between Russia and British India?
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Afghanistan
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What was the former name of Thailand?
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Siam
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What crop was severely damaged in Ireland in 1845?
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Potato
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Who developed Communism?
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Karl Marx
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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations"
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Charles Dickens
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Who won the War of the Pacific?
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Chile
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1850 CE - 1899 CE
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Who developed the Theory of Evolution?
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Charles Darwin
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What woman freed about 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad?
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Harriet Tubman
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Who composed "The Ride of the Valkyries"?
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Richard Wagner
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What was Britain given as a result of the Opium Wars?
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Hong Kong
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Who helped Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia gain independence?
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Simon Bolivar
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What U.S territory was purchased from Russia?
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Alaska
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What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?
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Richmond
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What Austrian Neurologist famously studied dreams?
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Sigmund Freud
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What did the 13th amendment outlaw in the United States?
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Slavery
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What was the largest German state when Germany was united?
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Prussia
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Who discovered Polonium?
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Marie Curie
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Who invented the telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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What African country, other than Ethiopia, avoided European Colonization?
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Liberia
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What famous Serbian is said to have invented a death ray?
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Nikola Tesla
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What train consistently traveled from Paris to Istanbul?
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Orient Express
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What volcano erupted near Indonesia in 1883 and could be heard in Australia?
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Krakatoa
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What volcano caused the "Year without a Summer"?
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Mount Tambora
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What structure was built for the 1889 World's Fair?
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Eiffel Tower
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What modern Asian country was annexed by the United States?
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Philippines
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Who painted the "Starry Night"?
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Vincent van Gogh
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Who invented dynamite?
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Alfred Nobel
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What was the first country to give women the right to vote?
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New Zealand
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1900 CE - 1949 CE
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What was the most populous country in the world in 1900?
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British Empire
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What city was destroyed by an Earthquake in 1906?
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San Francisco
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In what city was the first airplane flown?
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Kitty Hawk
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Where was Roald Amundsen the first to reach?
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South Pole
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What large ship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1912?
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Titanic
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What man is credited with building the Panama Canal?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Who was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914?
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Franz Ferdinand
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What British officer famously helped in the Arab Revolt?
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T.E Lawrence
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What was the name given to the flu outbreak of the 1910s?
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Spanish Flu
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Who played "The Tramp" in early silent films?
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Charlie Chaplin
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What British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat?
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Lusitania
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What organization of countries was formed in the aftermath of WWI?
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League of Nations
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What pharaoh's tomb was discovered completely intact in 1922?
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Tutankhamun
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Who was the world's first billionaire?
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John D. Rockefeller
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What economic event began in 1929?
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Great Depression
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What country broke into civil war between Republicans and Nationalists in 1936?
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Spain
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What bird did Australia declare war on?
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Emu
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Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?
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Amelia Earhart
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Who won four gold medals at the 1936 olympics?
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Jesse Owens
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What was the tallest building in the world in 1940?
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Empire State Building
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What was Adolf Hitler's autobiography?
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Mein Kampf
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Who was emperor of Japan in WWII?
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Hirohito
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In what city were Nazi war criminals prosecuted?
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Nuremburg
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Who led the the Indian independence movement against the British?
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Mahatma Gandhi
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1950 CE - 1999 CE
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What was the period of tensions between the U.S and U.S.S.R called?
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Cold War
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Who was the first person to climb Mt. Everest
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Edmund Hillary
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What city was known as Saigon?
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Ho Chi Minh City
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What country fought against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War?
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Israel
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Who was the "Blonde Bombshell"?
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Marilyn Monroe
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What was Mao Zedong's plan for the population of China?
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Great Leap Forward
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What country had nuclear missiles placed in it in 1962?
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Cuba
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Who was the first man in space?
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Yuri Gagarin
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Who killed John F. Kennedy?
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Who was the drummer for the Beatles?
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Ringo Starr
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What was the last European Colony in Africa?
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Zimbabwe
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Where was the worst nuclear power disaster in history?
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Chernobyl
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What islands were invaded by Argentina in 1982?
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Falkland Islands
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Who was the first female British Prime Minister?
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Margaret Thatcher
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What was the first country to gain independence from Yugoslavia?
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Slovenia
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What boxer famously said "I am the greatest"
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Muhammad Ali
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What was the system of segregation in South Africa before 1991?
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Apartheid
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What country broke apart in the Velvet Divorce?
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Czechoslovakia
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Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Who led Iraq through the Gulf War?
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Saddam Hussein
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What was the first country to declare independence from the USSR?
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Lithuania
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What Portuguese territory was given up in 1999?
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Macau
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2000 CE - Present
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What building in Washington D.C was attacked on 9/11?
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Pentagon
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On what holiday did a tsunami strike Indian Ocean countries in 2004?
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Boxing Day
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What event caused the overthrow of many Middle Eastern governments?
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Arab Spring
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Who became supreme leader of North Korea in 2009?
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Kim Jong il
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Who was killed by U.S Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011?
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Osama Bin Laden
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What was the Chelyabinsk Object?
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Meteor
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What peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014?
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Crimea
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What was the name for the U.K's decision to leave the E.U?
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Brexit
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What island was seriously devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017?
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Puerto Rico
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