History Quiz #650
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Q1. The award for which Nobel Prize winner was accepted in person by his wife because the winner feared that if he went to Oslo he would not be readmitted to his homeland?
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Q2. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III, and recognised still in the Canadian Constitution of 1982, transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain and also did what?
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Q3. Which was the first of the Baltic states to be occupied, and then absorbed as a constituent republic, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
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Q4. 2019/20 in Australia, Siberia, Indonesia, the Amazon and California saw exceptional what?
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Q5. From 1976 onwards, refugees seeking asylum were called "boat people" in the country they were trying to reach and mostly refused asylum. Which country was that?
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Q6. Bernard and Phyllis Coard and Maurice Bishop were involved with the politics of which country in 1983?
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Q7. In 429 CE, the Roman Emperor Theodosius II initiated what became known as the Codex Theodosianus, in order to do what?
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