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Sunday, 17 August 2025
Q: What year was the Battle of Yorktown?
A: 1781
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Q: Mary Antoinette was married to which French king?
A: Louis XVI
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Q: What is the name of the period of starvation lasting from 1845 to 1852 in Ireland?
A: The Irish Potato Famine
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Q: Who were the main combatants in the Peloponnesian War?
A: Athens and Sparta
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Q: What is Amerigo Vespucci famous for?
A: Inspiring the term "America"
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Q: Who were Henry VIII's six wives?
A: Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Parr
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Q: Where was William Shakespeare born?
A: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
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Q: Who wrote the Illyad?
A: Homer
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Q: What leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution?
A: Fidel Castro
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Q: Who was England's longest-ruling monarch?
A: Queen Elizabeth II
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Q: What political party was Mao Zedong the leader of?
A: The Chinese Communist Party
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Q: Who was the last Queen of Hawai'i before it was annexed by the US?
A: Queen Lili'uokalani
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Q: What year did Australia stop being a penal colony?
A: 1868
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Q: What year did Constantinople become Istanbul?
A: 1930
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Q: Which two wives did Henry VIII have beheaded?
A: Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard
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Q: Who is often called "the father of the atomic bomb"?
A: J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Q: What war ended dynastic rule in China in 1912?
A: The Xinhai Revolution
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Q: When did India win independence from the United Kingdom?
A: 1947
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Q: What is the real name of the founder of Buddhism, commonly known as the Buddha?
A: Siddartha Gautama
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