History Quiz #217
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Q1. According to global media, two major and potentially world-changing events took place in the week 6 -13 November 2012. Which were they?
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Q2. Which European country was twice, in 1892 and again in 1902, declared bankrupt?
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Q3. During which war were occupying Ottoman forces forced to withdraw from the town of Aqaba after a raid led by T. E. Lawrence and the Arab forces of Sharif Hussein?
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Q4. What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient sentencing (for voluntary manslaughter, the lightest possible) of Dan White for the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, which led to changes in the city's official attitude to gays?
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Q5. From 2010 to 2012 a series of major earthquakes devastated areas in the South Island of which country?
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Q6. In 1848, the USA offered Spain $100 million, equivalent to around $2.45 billion in present day terms, for the purchase of which area of land?
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Q7. Concorde, a collaboration between British Aircraft Corporation from the UK and Aérospatiale from France, took its first supersonic flight when?
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