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Whose last words were “Et tu Brute”?

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Julius Caesar

In which year did Charles, duke of Orleans, send the first known valentine’s card?

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1415

Point Clue: Margaret Thatcher once said of me, “I like Mr——-. We can do business together”. Who am I?

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I am Mikhail Gorbachev

What so-called “war” spawned the dueling slogans “Better Dead Than RED” and “Better Red Than Dead” in the 1950’s?

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The Cold War

Point Clue: Legend has it that I said, “Let them eat cake” when informed that the starving citizens had no bread. Who am I?

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I am Marie Antoinette

What building whose construction started in 1792 was once described by one of its residents as “…big enough for two emperors, one pope and the grand lama…”?

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The White House The remarks were that of Thomas Jefferson

Point Clue: I was a famous name in America’s Old West and I died in 1887. Who am I?

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I am Doc Holliday

Why was Elm Street in the news in 1963? Clue — November.

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It’s where John F Kennedy was shot in Dallas

Point Clue: In 1870 I inherited my father’s business which was eventually destroyed by events in the Russian Revolution. Who am I?

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I am Carl Faberge

Which war was fought over “the Union” and the emancipation of slaves?

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American Civil War

Ten lords a leaping — Which political party was led by Screaming Lord Sutch?

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The Monster Raving Loony Party

Which Athenian statesman started the construction of the Acropolis during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC)?

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Pericles Pericles had such a profound influence on Athenian society that Thucydides, his contemporary historian, acclaimed him as “the first citizen of Athens”. Pericles promoted the arts and literature; this was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world

Eleven pipers piping — In which sea did the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster occur?

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North Sea

What ‘y’ is cosmonaut Gagarin’s first name?

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Yuri

Who was the longest reigning Arab ruler, through 1995?

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King Hussein of Jordan

What ‘n’ was India’s first prime minister, in 1947?

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Nerhu

Which political term was popularized by Winston Churchill’s ‘Sinews of Peace’ address in 1946 when he said “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an X has descended across the Continent”?

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Iron Curtain Although not well received at the time, the phrase gained popularity as a short-hand reference to the division of Europe as the Cold War strengthened

Which ‘DW’ was lord mayor of London 4 times?

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Dick Whittington

What was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 and translated in 1822 by Jean-Francois Champollion?

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The Rosetta Stone The text of the Rosetta Stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repealing of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited in the British Museum since 1802, with only one break, from 1917 to 1919. Toward the end of World War I, in 1917, the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London and moved the Rosetta Stone to the Postal Tube Railway 50 feet below the ground at Holborn

The French village of DomrEmy was the birthplace of which famous historic figure of the 15th century?

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Joan of Arc (c.1412–1431) Initially called DomrEmy, the place has been renamed DomrEmy-la-Pucelle after Joan’s nickname, la pucelle d’OrlEans (the maid of OrlEans). This village was exempted from taxes in 1429 by king Charles VII as Joan of Arc’s only request for her help in ridding France of the English. However after the French revolution Domremy was required to pay taxes

In which American City was there a famous ‘Tea Party’ in 1773?

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Boston

Who said “I’ve watched a lot of baseball – on the radio”?

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Gerald ford

What ‘c’ was the king who hid up an oak tree?

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Charles ii

In which war was the novel “For Whom The Bell Tolls” set?

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The Spanish Civil War

What ‘uc’ owned a chemical plant that killed 2,500 people in Bhopal in 1984?

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Union carbide

Muckle John was the last official royal one in England – what?

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Fool or Jester

What twentieth-century American president was so obsessed with secrecy that he often wrote “burn this” on personal letters?

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Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Who drowned at Chappaquiddick in 1969?

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Mary Jo Kopechne.

Who was the first presidential jogger?

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Theodore Roosevelt. He jogged around the Washington Monument daily.

1996 was the Chinese year of which creature?

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Rat.

How many beds were listed in the palace inventories of France’s King Louis XIV?

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413.

Who was born Karl Herbert Frahm?

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Willy Brandt.

Which city was besieged by German troops for over 900 days in WWII?

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Leningrad.

The Russian mystic, Grigori Rasputin, was killed in 1916 by what? A) Assassination B) Shot C) Drowned D) All three

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D) All three

Which 1980s US president survived an assassination attempt?

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Ronald Reagan.

Ed Gein was a notorious murderer and grave robber, True or False?

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True

President Kennedy was shot in Dallas in what type of car?

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Lincoln

What song was the Navy band playing at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked?

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The Star-Spangled Banner.

Who finally stuck as Russia’s prime minister, after Boris Yeltsin had fired four previous choices in 17 months?

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Vladimir Putin.

Which president was the first to visit China?

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Ulysses S. Grant, in 1879, two years after he left the White House.

Which city was devastated by an earthquake in 1985 and then hosted the World Cup in 1986?

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Mexico.

Who became head of state in Guyana in 1992?

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Cheddi Jagan.

Which Russian leader had a pronounced birth mark on his forehead?

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Gorbachev.

What was Manfred von Richtofen’s nickname?

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The Red Baron

Israel was proclaimed an independent state in 1948. Who was its prime minister from then until 1963?

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Ben-Gurion.

Who became the world’s first billionaire in 1916?

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John D Rockefeller

In the 1990s Babrak Karmal and Sultan Ali Keshtmond have been Prime Minister in which country?

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Afghanistan.

Which famous name was accused of the abduction of Stompie Seipei?

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Winnie Mandela.

What precipitated the $5.7-million renovation of the White House during the Truman administration?

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A leg of Margaret Truman’s grand piano broke though her sitting room floor into the family dining room below.

The 19th century civic planner Baron Haussman is associated with the rebuilding of which city?

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Paris The Haussmann Renovations was a work commissioned by NapolEon III between 1852 and 1870, though work continued well after the Second Empire’s demise in 1870. The project encompassed all aspects of urban planning, both in the centre of Paris and in the surrounding districts: streets and boulevards, regulations imposed on facades of buildings, public parks, sewers and water works, city facilities and public monuments.
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