History Quiz #117
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Q1. What regular feature on page 3 of the Sun newspaper first appeared in November 1970?
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Q2. The national holiday celebrated in the USA on 4 July each year is to commemorate events surrounding which war?
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Q3. Which of these is a legendary creature, similar to the Egyptian sphinx, with the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice?
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Q4. What led to Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand and Australia variously controlling the Cameroons, Togoland, Ruanda-Urundi, the Kionga Triangle, South West Africa, the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands, Kiautschou, Western Samoa, part of New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and Nauru?
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Q5. Trop v. Dulles (1958) was a landmark case in which the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional for the government to do what to US citizens as punishment?
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Q6. What Australian weekly magazine founded by two Sydney journalists, J.F. Archibald and John Haynes, which first appeared on 31 January 1880, ceased publication on 23 January 2008?
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Q7. What name was popularly given to the event on 6 December 1989 when Marc Lépine killed 14 women and injured 10 women and 4 men, now commemorated annually in Canada as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women?
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