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Which country elected Lech Wałęsa their first President in 1990?
- Hungry
- Poland
- Ireland
- Wales
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Who wrote the poem Charge of the Light Brigade, published this week in 1854?
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William Wordsworth
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Lord Byron
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Alfred Tennyson
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William Blake
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Which monarch abdicated the British throne in 1936?
- George IV
- Edward VII
- Edward VIII
- Victoria
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Who is this who sent the 1st radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada in 1901?
- Thomas Edison
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Guglielmo Marconi
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Who headed the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911?
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Robert Falcon Scott
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Edmund Hillary
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Roald Amundsen
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Ernest Shackleton
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How old was Mary, Queen of Scots when she inherited the throne of Scotland in 1542?
- 6 days
- 6 years
- 16 years
- 26 years
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Which of these individuals won the Nobel Peace Prize, established by Alfred Nobel?
- Martin Luthur King Jr.
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- All of them
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Which Roman Emperor, born in 37 AD, was famous for his debaucherous lifestyle and was rumored to have started the Great Fire of Rome?
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Augustus Caesar
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Nero
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Claudius
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Hadrian
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True or false: Uruguay was the first country to legalize the sale and use of marijuana.
- False
- True
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Which actor delivered the famous line "greed is good" in the 1987 film Wall Street?
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Martin Sheen
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Richard Gere
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Michael Douglas
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Robert De Niro
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