History Quiz #29
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Q1. Where was the Congress held in 1814-15, chiefly between Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia, that adjusted frontiers after the fall of Napoleon?
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Q2. Why did Captain James Cook give the name "The Sandwich Islands" to the Hawaiian Islands on his discovery of them on 18 January 1778?
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Q3. Which of these was the cause of 8.5 million refugees and half a million deaths between August and December 1947?
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Q4. In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
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Q5. What is the former name of Helsinki, Finland?
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Q6. Which Greek God is the equivalent of the Roman God Neptune?
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Q7. At the end of The War of 1812, the USA held Canadian territory near Detroit, and the British held parts of which Eastern state?
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