History Quiz #657
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Q1. In 1750 French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille set up an observatory in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, where he did what?
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Q2. The Bretton Woods Agreements, signed by 44 nations in 1944, were about what?
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Q3. In March 2016, the European Union agreed an arrangement with what country to reduce an increasingly overwhelming flow of migrants to EU countries?
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Q4. In 2018, after five years of deliberation ,the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling on a case brought by Bolivia seeking what?
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Q5. Where, in 1857, was there a brutal and unsuccessful uprising against British control, with estimates of the number of deaths in the hundreds of thousands?
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Q6. The series of wars known in some places as the French and Indian Wars was fought over the late 17th and early 18th centuries in which area or areas?
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Q7. What was the name of the English parliament that restored Charles II as king in 1660?
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