History Quiz #485
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Q1. Which countries signed up to the Plaza Accord in the USA in November 1985?
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Q2. The fall of the city of Edo, capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, in 1868 accelerated the final stages of what change in Japan?
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Q3. What happened on the 1 September 1923, aggravated by the days that followed, to devastate Japan's thriving economy?
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Q4. A climbing current account deficit and an increasingly strong dollar prompted the US to initiate what international agreement in November 1985?
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Q5. What product name did Westerners in the 19th century give to the "road", or network of trade routes, across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe?
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Q6. During World War II the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced many of its broadcasts by the opening bars of which music?
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Q7. The League of Nations was established to promote collective security, arbitration of international disputes, reduction of armaments and open diplomacy; when was this?
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