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Afghanistan declared itself independent of which power in 1919?
- Russian Empire
- Great Britain
- Persia
- France
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Which American President declared the US Civil War officially over in 1866?
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Andrew Johnson
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Abraham Lincoln
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Which American comic poet, born this week in 1902 wrote these lines? "Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore and that's what parents were created for"
- E. E. Cummings
- Pam Ayres
- Spike Milligan
- Ogden Nash
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Film noir "The Big Sleep" premiered this week in 1946 starring Humphrey Bogart as which famous fictional detective?
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sam Spade
- Philip Marlowe
- Hercule Poirot
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Which composer wrote the "1812 Overture" which premiered in 1882?
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Johannes Brahms
- Fryderyck Chopin
- Richard Wagner
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The 1st air raid in history involved a pilot-less air balloon attack on Venice by Austria this week in 1849?
- True
- False
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The catholic St. Columba reported seeing what this week in Scotland in 565?
- Loch Ness monster
- Vision of Mary
- Island of Iona
- The Picts
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Who were the 1st people to sack the city of Rome for the first time in 800 years in 410 AD?
- Vandals
- Huns
- Visigoths
- Franks
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What was the name of the ship of English Captain James Cook, which departed Plymouth in 1768 on Cook's 1st voyage to the Pacific?
- Resolution
- Bounty
- Beagle
- Endeavor
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Marxist Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was murdered this week in 1940 in Mexico with what?
- Poison
- Pistol
- Ice axe
- Run over by a car
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