History Quiz #608
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Q1. Which is a 370 miles (600 km) long bi-national waterway first proposed in the 1890s, started in 1954 and opened in 1959?
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Q2. What term was used to describe the pattern where, from 1840 to 1960, each American President who had won election in a year ending in zero died in office?
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Q3. Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the US Constitution sets out 3 main qualifications for someone to be eligible for president: a natural born citizen of the USA, at least 35 years old, and which other?
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Q4. Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward all became infamous in the UK for their part in what event in the 1960s?
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Q5. What was the nickname for the Boeing B-17 long-range bomber used in World War II?
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Q6. Which expression is associated with the sinking of the HMS Birkenhead at Gansbaai near Cape Town, South Africa, in February 1852?
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Q7. Since 1961, with what group have Eric Baker, Sean MacBride, Martin Ennals Dirk Börner, Thomas Hammarberg, José Zalaquett, Suriya Wickremasinghe, Wolfgang Heinz, Franca Sciuto, Peter Duffy, Annette Fischer, Ross Daniels, Susan Waltz, Mahmoud Ben Romdhane, Colm O Cuanachain, Paul Hoffman, Jaap Jacobson, Hanna Roberts, Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You, Peter Pack, Peter Benenson, Ian Martin, Pierre Sané, Irene Khan and Salil Shetty been associated?
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