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1. What does Ghengis Khan mean?
    Holy Leader
    Great Ruler
    Universal King
    Holy Prince


2. Which British Prime Minister was the Brighton Bomb meant to kill?
    John Major
    Tony Blair
    Edward Heath
    Margaret Thatcher


3. Who was the founder of Judo?
    Lu Cong
    Mao Lei
    Jigoro Kano
    Hirohito


4. How many people died during the Boston "Massacre"?
    5
    556
    55
    570


5. In what year was the Northern Rugby Union established (in England)?
    1895
    1926
    1874
    1902


6. In what year was the battle of Kursk?
    1943
    1944
    1945
    1942


7. Who were the rulers of France and Prussia at the start of the Franco-Prussian war?
    Emperor Napoleon I and Kaiser Wilhelm II
    Emperor Napoleon II and Otto Von Bismarck
    King Louis XIV and Otto Von Bismarck
    Emperor Napoleon III and King William I


8. Who were the combattants in the Yom Kippur war in 1973?
    Israel versus Syria
    Israel versus Egypt and Lebanon
    Israel versus Egypt and Syria
    Israel and Egypt verus Syria


9. What was the capital city of the Mughal Empire?
    Madras
    Kirkuk
    Khabul
    Delhi


10. What was the title of the first "talkie", and when was it released?
    The Jazz Singer 1927
    The Great Dictator 1940
    Lights of New York 1928
    Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse 1921


11. Who developed the smallpox vaccine?
    Edward Jenner
    Joseph Lister
    Louis Pasteur
    Marie Curie


12. Where did the Hittites come from?
    Iberia
    Anatolia
    Arabia
    Australia


13. Is it true that Galileo was the first person to classify Uranus as a planet?
    Yes
    No


14. In what year was the Islamic revolution in Iran?
    1976
    1979
    1981
    1968


15. Followers of the Cynical School of philosophy in ancient Greece had what nickname?
    Dog philosophers
    Horse philosophers
    Grumpy philosophers
    Cow philosophers


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