History Quiz #115
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Q1. The "Dome of Discovery" was built on London's South Bank for which occasion?
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Q2. In 1989, there was a peaceful transfer of power to non-Communist governments in East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and which other country?
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Q3. What strike of 1,400 women and girls was caused by poor working conditions in the Bryant & May factory in 1888?
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Q4. In India in the 1930s, the left wing nationalist party was run by Subhas Chandra Bore, and Gandhi's followers were in the centre. What was the main right wing party?
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Q5. In which year did the South African government lift the ban on the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and the United Democratic Front, and release Nelson Mandela from prison?
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Q6. How did Vesna Vulovic make history in 1972?
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Q7. The most renowned oracles were Zeus (at Dodona) and Apollo. Where was Apollo based?
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