History Quiz #481
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Q1. What two forces were engaged in the Battle of Thermopylae in mid 480 BCE?
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Q2. The text of President Monroe's address to the nation in 1823 stated what principle in relation to foreign powers and the "American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain"?
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Q3. Where was "the Aberfan Disaster" where the collapse of a colliery spoil-tip in 1966 killed 144 people, including 116 children?
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Q4. When and where did the Songhai Empire flourish?
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Q5. In 1935, Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg developed a scale to measure what concept?
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Q6. What book was to have been called, in translation, "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice"?
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Q7. Leopold of Saxe-Coburg was invited to be the first king of what country in 1831 after it gained independence from the Dutch?
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