History Quiz #465
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Q1. Aethelred the Unroed, his son Edmund Ironside, and Cnut (or Canute) ruled England in succession in what year?
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Q2. Approximately how far had the royal Swedish warship, the Vasa, sailed before she sank on 10 August 1628?
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Q3. Laws enacted through the southern USA from the late 19th century enforced racial segregation on the basis of race, of people as "separate but equal"; what were the laws known as?
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Q4. Who designed Britain's first atomic bomb, which was exploded aboard HMS Plym in the Monte Bello Islands in October 1952?
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Q5. What caused the British government to allocate £20 million in the first half of the 19th century for payment mainly to private individuals?
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Q6. In the international non-profit organisation founded in 1985, based in France and known as RSF, what does the "R" stand for?
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Q7. The border crossing known as "Checkpoint Charlie" was between which two places?
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