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Who succeeded King Henry VIII to the English throne in 1547?
- Edward VI
- Mary I
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Elizabeth I
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Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice, published this week in 1813?
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Emily Brontë
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Jane Austen
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George Eliot
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Mary Shelley
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Which US president first described an "Axis of Evil" in his speech?
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George H. W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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Ronald Reagan
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George W. Bush
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In which Italian city did the playwright William Shakespeare set his play Romeo and Juliet?
- Florence
- Venice
- Verona
- Rome
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Colonization of the America's in the 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and created a mini ice age?
- True
- False
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Which of these is a former name for New York City?
- New Angoulême
- Manahata
- New Amsterdam
- All of them
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What was the name of the US space shuttle that disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003, killing all 7 on board?
- Discovery
- Challenger
- Columbia
- Atlantis
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Who is this who returned to Iran in 1979 after 15 years in exile?
- Shah of Iran
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Ali Khamenei
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An expedition by which country was the first to discover Antarctica in 1820?
- America
- Great Britain
- Norway
- Russia
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Who wrote the opera La Boheme which 1st premiered this week in Turin in 1896?
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Giuseppe Verdi
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Richard Wagner
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Giacomo Puccini
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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