History Quiz #423
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Q1. What Royal residence in London, originally part of St James's Palace, was used as the London residence of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1952?
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Q2. After watching US president Barack Obama giving a speech, David Letterman commented that it was nice to have a president who could pronounce which word?
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Q3. Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister of what country from 1972 to 1975?
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Q4. What was the name that US President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to his package of economic programmes in the mid 1930s with the goals of "the 3 R's": Relief to the unemployed & farmers, Reform of business and financial practices, and Recovery of the economy?
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Q5. Beginning in 1966 and proposed formally in 1980, Britain and Argentina looked at a "lease-back" deal over the Falkland Islands / Islas Malvinas. What brought this to an abrupt halt?
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Q6. According to some Christian tradition, who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
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Q7. What name was given to the accidental destruction caused to British trawlers and fishermen by ships from the Russian navy on 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War?
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