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A FunTrivia Mixed Quiz!

This is an untimed game, created by the FunTrivia QuizBot using questions submitted by players. Take your time, and please consider submitting questions of your own when you are done!

#1. History Mixture. Player bottle_rocket asks:
  After fighting for Uruguay's independence in the 1840s, who returned to Italy and became the 'hero of two worlds' by fighting for its unification?

    Hernando Cortes
    Marco Polo
    Giuseppe Garibaldi
    Vittorio De Sica

#2. History Mixture. Player Supreme92 asks:
  Which of these countries was never a colony of Portugal?

    Angola
    East Timor
    Brazil
    Thailand

#3. History Mixture. Player matthewpokemon asks:
  Apart from the "Lady Lex" what was the nickname of the World War 2 aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2)?

    Gray Lady
    Stripe-Stacked Sara
    Mighty Mo
    Big E

#4. History Mixture. Player Grad56 asks:
  Francis Drake was a pirate who become the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world. What was the name of his ship?

    Golden Hind
    Virginia
    Gloriana
    Bounty

#5. History Mixture. Player goodreporter asks:
  As a lawyer, he argued in the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of one of the most important civil rights cases in American history: "Brown vs. Board of Education". Twelve years later, his appointment to that very same Court made history. Who was he?

    Arthur Goldberg
    Thurgood Marshall
    Byron White
    Henry Blackmun

#6. History Mixture. Player LaceyDemi asks:
  Which famous car manufacturer designed the Merlin engine which was used to power numerous aircraft during World War II?

    Golf
    Bentley
    Rolls-Royce
    Volkswagen

#7. History Mixture. Player Colmosby asks:
  What were 'cotton-clads' in the American Civil War? (Hint: think of the Mississippi).

    CSA troops
    Cotton traders
    Snipers
    River gunboats

#8. History Mixture. Player trident asks:
  In 1535, conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded which city in Peru (which he called "Ciudad de los Reyes" at the time), as the capital of his newly conquered lands?

    Lima
    Arequipa
    Trujillo
    Chiclayo

#9. History Mixture. Player mastermind4 asks:
  Who was responsible for making the famous "Quit India speech", on 8th August 1942?

    Swami Vivekanand
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Gopal Krishna Gokhale
    Jawaharlal Nehru

#10. History Mixture. Player Creedy asks:
  One of three possible sites for the origin and spread of the 1918 Spanish Flu was which central U.S. state?

    Kansas
    California
    Washington
    Maine