History Quiz #486
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Q1. Quantrill's Raiders, a loosely organised force of Partisan rangers under the leadership of William Clarke Quantrill, fought in which war?
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Q2. What military conflict preceded the establishment of the military Kamakura shogunate that dominated Japan for 150 years, and the beginning of the dominance of the samurai over imperial rule in Japan for 650 years?
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Q3. What is historiography?
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Q4. What did the 1985 Accord signed by the US and four other nations at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in November apply to?
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Q5. Which Japanese firm admitted in 2011 to massive and sustained accountancy fraud, a tobashi scheme, dating back to decisions in the early 1990s?
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Q6. Which company was ordered in 2000 (as it turned out, abortively) to split into two companies, one to own and market its operating system and another to control its other software and the company's Internet business?
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Q7. What was the name given to the period of Napoleon's attempted restoration, which ended with his defeat at Waterloo in 1815?
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