History Quiz #848
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Q1. Which great city was founded in Russia in 1703?
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Q2. Black Bess, the horse of Dick Turpin (1706-39), would have been used to what phrase, if legend is to be believed?
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Q3. In 1610, English explorer Sir Henry Hudson explored which large inland sea in the north of Canada?
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Q4. Of up to 20 major extinction events identified in Earth's history, which is considered to have caused the greatest loss of species?
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Q5. Which was a name in the 19th century for the area now known as the Mekong Delta?
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Q6. Which Irish Republican, an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, was elected to the UK Parliament while leading the 1981 hunger strike to protest against the removal of Special Category Status?
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Q7. Which country declared independence from Britain unilaterally in August 1963, joined the Federation of Malaysia in September along with Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak, but left two years later, officially gaining sovereignty on 9 August 1965?
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