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Who managed to lose the "Mother of all battles"?
a. Manuel Noriega
b. Saddam Hussein
c. Ho Chi Minh
d. Darth Vader
Jeopardy writer Kathy Easterling was known for writing questions
about which "darn" people from the area around Florence?
a. Etruscans
b. Gauls
c. Goths
d. Lombards
Merry Christmas! What dictator was executed by his own people on
December 25, 1989?
a. Manuel Noriega
b. Nicolae Ceausescu
c. Augusto Pinochet
d. Wojciech Jaruzelski
What 20th-century leader was nicknamed Attila the Hen?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Margaret Thatcher
c. Saddam Hussein
d. Charles de Gaulle
Catherine of Aragon's lady in waiting replaced her in her bed and
on her throne. Who was she?
a. Jane Seymour
b. Anne Boleyn
c. Lady Jane Grey
d. Mary, Queen of Scots
The second of the "five good emperors", this Spaniard was also the
first non-Italian to make it to the top of the Roman rat race. Who was he?
a. Trajan
b. Nero
c. Claudius
d. Mark Antony
The French state was founded by which Germanic people, who
apparently were quite "candid and above-board" in doing so?
a. Franks
b. Goths
c. Vandals
d. Moors
The last king of Sardinia, Victor Emmanuel I went on to become the
first king of what country?
a. Italy
b. Greece
c. Spain
d. France
Henry VIII went through all that uxorial turmoil, just to get a
son. Who was the only one of his six wives to do so, dying 12 days after giving birth to Edward VI?
a. Lady Jane Grey
b. Catherine of Aragon
c. Jane Seymour
d. Mary, Queen of Scots
In 1774, Peyton Randolph of Virginia became the first president of
what body?
a. House of Burgess
b. US Congress
c. Continental Congress
d. French House of Assembly
During the Civil War, where was the southernmost point of the
United States, after all those Confederate states left?
a. Tennessee
b. California
c. Missouri
d. West Virginia
Which two countries fought the Pastry War (aka, La guerra de los
pasteles) in 1838?
a. Spain and Portugal
b. Italy and Libya
c. Mexico and France
d. France and Algeria
Progressive Conservative may be a contradiction in terms, but what
country had a powerful Progressive Conservative Party?
a. Canada
b. Ireland
c. Italy
d. France
What future Canadian province was called "the 14th colony", but
didn't join the other 13 in their Revolution?
a. Ontario
b. Nova Scotia
c. New Brunswick
d. Newfoundland
Aside from the city-state of Dubrovnik, what was the first country
to recognize the independence of the US?
a. France
b. Great Britain
c. Afghanistan
d. Serbia
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