History Quiz #640
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Q1. What organisation was founded in 1831 by James Winston, Samuel James Arnold, Samuel Beazley, Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, and Francis Mills to "tend to the regeneration of the Drama"?
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Q2. On 10 May 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold overcame and looted Fort Ticonderoga, a small British garrison, and took away cannons and other armaments to fortify which city that was under siege?
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Q3. The Harelle, a revolt that occurred in the French city of Rouen in 1382 followed by the Maillotins Revolt a few days later in Paris, and subsequently in Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orleans, and Rheims during the Hundred Years' War, was about what?
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Q4. Which cable suspension road bridge, known as "Galloping Gertie", was completely destroyed due to "aeroelastic flutter" on 7 November 1940?
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Q5. Beginning in the late 15th century, expeditions mainly from Britain and which other country explored, and later settled, along the Atlantic coast of Canada?
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Q6. On April 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison became what?
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Q7. What was the cause of the sinking of the "Lusitania" in May 1915 and the subsequent deaths of 1,198 people?
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