History Quiz #727
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Q1. Which country annexed Korea in 1910?
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Q2. When did the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the bill of rights entrenched in Canadian law as part of the Constitution Act, come into force?
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Q3. He led the Kuomintang for five decades, was born in Zhejiang on the east coast of China and died in Taipei; who was he?
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Q4. Who, in the years prior to World War II, conceived and oversaw the development of an integrated air defence system for England which included radar, human observers, raid plotting and radio control of aircraft?
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Q5. In August 2009, Britain's largest jewel robbery took place at which store?
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Q6. On 17 May 1928 the Royal Flying Doctor Service made its first official flight in what country?
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Q7. Which phrase that first came to public attention as a U.S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984 became associated with the 1984 U.S. presidential election when Walter Mondale ridiculed Gary Hart's candidacy?
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