History Quiz #121
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Q1. When Winston Churchill wrote "Before this, we had no victory and after it we had no defeats", which event was he talking about?
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Q2. The "Don't Make a Wave Committee" founded in the early 1970s by Jim & Marie Bohlen, Irving & Dorothy Stowe, Paul Cote and Robert & Bobbi Hunter grew into what organisation?
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Q3. Which of these is an important date in the US election process?
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Q4. What was the first French settlement in North America?
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Q5. Which of these is not a name given to the period in the history of the Papacy during the first half of the tenth century, beginning with the installation of Pope Sergius III in 904 and lasting for sixty years until the death of Pope John XII in 964?
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Q6. When Charles I was beheaded, and contrary to custom, the words "Behold the head of a traitor!" were not said when his head was held up and exhibited to the crowd. Revolutionary leader Oliver Cromwell ordered what else to occur that was unusual after such a beheading?
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Q7. On 12 June 2009, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president of which country?
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