History Quiz #150
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Q1. Bill and Hillary Clinton and Jim and Susan McDougal were investigated as part of what financial scandal by the US Justice Department in 1994?
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Q2. What name was given to the left-leaning military coup that started on 25 April 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy?
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Q3. The followers of John Wycliffe in the 14th and 15th century were known as what?
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Q4. Who was the youngest person at the time to be elected president of the USA?
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Q5. Built in 1765, what is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, still manned by the British Royal Navy?
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Q6. In 1632 the Puritan William Prynne published "Histriomastix", over a thousand pages, showing that what things were unlawful, incentives to immorality, and condemned by the scriptures, the fathers, modern Christian writers, and the wisest of the heathen philosophers?
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Q7. In what decade was the Korean War?
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