History Quiz #376
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Q1. The Balfour Declaration, made by Lord Balfour on behalf of the British Government in 1917, was a promise to do what after World War I?
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Q2. Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrim's activities in Plymouth in 1621?
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Q3. In his voyage west for Spain in 1492 what did Christopher Columbus hope to discover?
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Q4. How many sons of Philip IV of France became King?
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Q5. Early in the 12th century a boy named Astrolabe was born to whom?
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Q6. Tansu Ciller became the first female Prime Minister of which Muslim country in 1993?
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Q7. Although the position was not officially designated as such for nearly 200 years who was the first person (in 1721) unofficially called the Prime Minister of the British Parliament?
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