History Quiz #180
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Q1. When Winston Churchill said "Now this is not the end, nor is it even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning", which event was he talking about?
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Q2. P B S Pinchback was the first non-white and first person of African American descent to become governor of a US state, serving for 35 days from 9 December 1872, to 13 January 1873. Which state was this?
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Q3. Besides the assassination of US president John F Kennedy, what happened on 22 November 1963?
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Q4. The historically significant "Wind of Change" speech was made by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 3 February 1960 to the Parliament of which country?
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Q5. On 11 May 2010 David Cameron was asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a government and, as Prime Minister of the UK, announced that he wished to lead a formal coalition of the Conservative Party and which other party?
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Q6. Pirates operating off the coast of which country took over $100 million in ransom payments between 2007 and 2009?
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Q7. What name was given to the predominant type of 20th-century battleship, with an 'all-big-gun' armament & steam turbine propulsion, that was named after the first of the kind, launched by the Royal Navy in 1906?
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