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What country bombed Pearl Harbor in World War II?

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Who first published "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1885?

Question 3 of 10

In the 1970s, the Western democracies pursued a thawing of relations called detente with what rivals?

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Who most famously started as a pupil at Eton College in 1995?

Question 5 of 10

What other than "Krauts" was the colloquial name the Allied soldiers used for German soldiers during WWII?

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Where was the Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle fought solely by airplanes and aircraft carriers, in which the ships never saw each saw?

Question 7 of 10

In what country did the volcano Hekla erupt?

Question 8 of 10

Ancient Gaul was mostly France, but also included Belgium and part of what country, west of the Rhine?

Question 9 of 10

347 English settlers were killed in 1622 in which American city?

Question 10 of 10

Grand Prince Ivan III Vasilyevich (aka Ivan the Great) finally kicked the Horde out of what country in 1480?

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