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"The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" marked the end of which war?
- US Civil War
- World War I
- World War II
- Korean War
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Who is this political leader, confirmed dead in 2004?
- Osama bin Laden
- Fidel Castro
- Yasser Arafat
- Ayatollah Khomeini
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True or false: Barack Obama was the first sitting US president to pose for a gay magazine?
- True
- False
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Which explorer's body and diary was found in Antarctica in 1912?
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Roald Amundsen
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Edmund Hillary
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Robert Falcon Scott
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Richard E. Byrd
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Which major shipping canal opened in 1869?
- Panama Canal
- Corinth Canal
- Houston Ship Canal
- Suez Canal
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Who did Elizabeth I succeed when she came to the throne of England this week in 1558?
- Henry VIII
- Mary I
- Edward VI
- James I
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Who wrote "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a letter in 1789?
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Thomas Jefferson
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George Washington
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Benjamin Franklin
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who is this actor born this week in 1980?
- Ryan Seacrest
- Ryan Reynolds
- Ryan Phillipe
- Ryan Gosling
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Who was the artist of the "Salvator Mundi" painting that set a new world record price when it sold at auction in 2017?
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Michelangelo
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Pablo Picasso
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Raphael
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Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured in the Andes by which Spanish conquistador in 1532?
- Francisco Pizarro
- Hernán Cortés
- Christopher Columbus
- Ferdinand Magellan
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