History Quiz #637
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Q1. Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct what from ice?
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Q2. The Ishtar Gate, constructed around 575BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II, was a gate to which city?
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Q3. In February 2010, Joseph Stack, a 53 year old software engineer, crashed his light plane into Internal Revenue Service offices in which city?
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Q4. What was the first land passage between Manhattan Island and Brooklyn that, on its opening in 1883, became the longest suspension bridge in the world and its towers the tallest structures in the Western Hemisphere?
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Q5. Which country was proclaimed a People's Republic on 1 October 1949, following the defeat of forces led by Chiang Kai-shek?
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Q6. In geological terms, what are Rodinia and Pannotia?
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Q7. What does the day known in the US as Juneteenth mark?
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