History Quiz #310
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Q1. In 1935, which city was chosen to replace Livingstone as the capital of the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, and is now the capital of Zambia?
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Q2. During the reign of the Tudors in England, what instrument was used to behead those executed by order of the monarch for treason?
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Q3. What name was given to the force raised by the British Government in 1920 from World War I veterans, withdrawn in 1932, to put down disorder in Ireland?
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Q4. Which civilisation left clearly identifiable traces dating from 2600 BCE, with cities on what are now the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Honduras and Southern Mexico and still survives in language today?
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Q5. Squeaky Fromme, who tried to assassinate US President Gerald Ford, was part of what group?
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Q6. In 1974 many ranks of life-size models were discovered buried in China; they are known as...?
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Q7. To investigate his theories of the diaspora of South American peoples, who sailed in a balsa raft called Kon-Tiki across the Pacific Ocean in 1947?
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