History Quiz #660
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Q1. To what office in the USA was Henry Kissinger appointed in 1973?
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Q2. The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?
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Q3. Chuck Yeager in a plane first broke the sound barrier in level flight in 1947, Joseph Kittinger set a time in 1960 of 4m 37s in free fall from a height of 19.5 miles and reached a speed of 614 mph. On 14 October 2012 Austrian Felix Baumgartner set new records, which of these was not among them?
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Q4. Why did the MS Achille Lauro become internationally well-known in 1985?
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Q5. What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War?
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Q6. Which languages have been spoken, for at least 6,000 years, by the peoples of an island forcibly colonised since 1895 by Japanese and then Chinese forces with programmes aimed (ultimately unsuccessfully) at eliminating the indigenous language and culture?
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Q7. The New York Stock Exchange, established under that name in 1865, deals in what?
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