History Quiz #233
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Q1. In 1803, part of which two Canadian provinces was bought by the USA from France with the Louisiana Purchase, and ceded to Great Britain in 1818?
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Q2. What was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organisations, created by a decree issued on 20 December 1917 by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by Felix Dzerzhinsky?
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Q3. Which British Prime Minister introduced "the welfare state" to the UK?
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Q4. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
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Q5. The North German Federation together with Bavaria and other southern German states fought which other country in 1870 in what war?
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Q6. US President Bush sent 2,000 troops into which country to conduct regular military exercises and, after a US serviceman was shot by local forces in December 1989, ordered an additional 24,000 troops in to take control?
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Q7. Spaniards Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antônio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
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