History Quiz #363
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Q1. Who was the first person to sail through the North East Passage north of Russia from Europe to the Pacific Ocean in 1878/79?
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Q2. Octavian and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius in 42 BCE near which city in East Macedonia?
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Q3. For what did William Kemmler, then at New York's Auburn Prison, become famous on 6 August 1890?
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Q4. Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?
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Q5. On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian-Serb student and member of Young Bosnia, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which led to the start of which war?
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Q6. 17 year old Zac Sunderland made the world's news in July 2009 for doing what?
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Q7. What is next in the series: Katherine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Catherine?
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