History Quiz #119
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Q1. What name was given to an amateur archeologist's find of gold and silver treasures dating back 1400 years in England in September 2009?
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Q2. Which thoroughfare was closed and blanketed with flowers, trees and grass for 3 days in May 2010?
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Q3. US President Reagan appointed two Republicans and one Democrat (John Tower, Brent Scowcroft and Edmund Muskie, known as the "Tower Commission") to investigate what?
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Q4. On 8 April 1933, the state government of Western Australia held a referendum on which subject, in which 68% of the 237,198 voters voted in favour?
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Q5. What was the last foreign invasion of Britain?
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Q6. Which of these events happened first in American history?
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Q7. What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?
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