History Quiz #242
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Q1. The last beheading after death carried out in Britain (which was part of the penalty of "hanging, drawing and quartering"), followed conviction for treason of whom?
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Q2. Where did Scottish patriot William Wallace lead soldiers to a defeat of the English in 1297?
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Q3. What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and is the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
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Q4. In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of which campaign?
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Q5. The Boxer Rebellion which China officially waged 1900-1901 was against what?
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Q6. When was Nicolae Ceaușescu, at the time Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and Head of State in Romania, deposed and later shot?
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Q7. In 1858 Rowland Macy established a new store named "R. H. Macy & Company", where it stayed on the same site for nearly forty years, in which city?
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