History Quiz #441
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Q1. Who, in 363 CE, ordered the burning of the celebrated, more than 500 year old, Royal Library of Antioch?
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Q2. What was the effect of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki?
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Q3. From 1895 to 1952 the island of Taiwan was under the sovereignty of which country?
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Q4. What was launched from Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand on 25 May 2017?
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Q5. The year 1776 saw the first race of what became the St Leger Stakes, destruction of 36 Cherokee towns, the birth of Mary Pickersgill, the start of Captain Cook's third voyage, and what else?
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Q6. What did the Snyder Act of 1924 in the US provide for?
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Q7. According to Christian legend, who, as Jesus was bearing the cross to Golgotha, offered him her veil to wipe his brow?
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