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| # | Question | Answer | |
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| 141 | Which U.S. President was famously 'attacked' by a swimming rabbit? | Jimmy Carter | |
| 142 | In what year did the Berlin Wall fall? | 1989 | |
| 143 | Which of the following African countries was most successful in resisting colonization? | Ethiopia | |
| 144 | Who was the first Chancellor of a united Germany in 1871? | Otto Von Bismark | |
| 145 | On what street did the 1666 Great Fire of London start? | Pudding Lane | |
| 146 | List the following Iranic empires in chronological order: | Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid | |
| 147 | When was the People's Republic of China founded? | October 1, 1949 | |
| 148 | Which of the following ancient Near Eastern peoples still exists as a modern ethnic group? | Assyrians | |
| 149 | Which country did the Eureka Rebellion, an 1856 battle against colonial rule, take place in? | Australia | |
| 150 | America's Strategic Defense System during the Cold War was nicknamed after this famous movie. | Star Wars | |
| 151 | When was Finland's 100th year of being independent? | 2017 | |
| 152 | What age was King Henry V when he died? | 35 | |
| 153 | When did O, Canada officially become the national anthem? | 1980 | |
| 154 | Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born outside the borders of the thirteen original states. | True | |
| 155 | When did the Battle of the Somme begin? | July 1st, 1916 | |
| 156 | What historical event was Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture referencing? | The Napoleonic Wars | |
| 157 | Who was the first explorer to sail to North America? | Leif Erikson | |
| 158 | Which country was Josef Stalin born in? | Georgia | |
| 159 | These two countries held a commonwealth from the 16th to 18th century. | Poland and Lithuania | |
| 160 | In which war did the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki occur? | World War II | |
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| 161 | What is the name given to the series of confrontations between the UK and Iceland over North Atlantic fishing rights? | The Cod Wars | |
| 162 | What year did Australia become a federation? | 1901 | |
| 163 | In what year did Kentucky become the 15th state to join the union? | 1792 | |
| 164 | What is the name of the famous Apache leader who died in 1909 at the age of 70? | Geronimo | |
| 165 | In World War II, Hawker Typhoons served in the Pacific theater. | False | |
| 166 | Which one of these tanks was designed and operated by the United Kingdom? | Tog II | |
| 167 | Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States of America? | France | |
| 168 | What date was the first flight of the P-40 Warhawk? | October 14 1938 | |
| 169 | Who was the last emperor of Mexico? | Ferdinand Maximilian | |
| 170 | What was the name of the planned invasion of Japan towards the end of World War II? | Operation Downfall | |
| 171 | The minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer. | General Electric | |
| 172 | Who was the first prime minister of Canada? | John Macdonald | |
| 173 | In which year did the Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq occur? | 1990 | |
| 174 | Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. | True | |
| 175 | Who is the creator of the soft drink, Dr. Pepper? | Charles Alderton | |
| 176 | The Herero genocide was perpetrated in Africa by which of the following colonial nations? | Germany | |
| 177 | What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Southern France on August 15th, 1944? | Operation Dragoon | |
| 178 | The Battle of Trafalgar took place on October 23rd, 1805 | False | |
| 179 | The "Trail of Tears" was a result of which United States President's Indian Removal Policy? | Andrew Jackson | |
| 180 | What country joined the EU in 2013? | Croatia | |
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| 181 | Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II? | Winston Churchill | |
| 182 | Who was the first ruler of Haiti after the country had gained its independence? | Jean-Jacques Dessalines | |
| 183 | In which country was the Statue of Liberty built and exported to the United States of America? | France | |
| 184 | What year did the Battle of Agincourt take place? | 1415 | |
| 185 | Who was the leader of Sweden in the Great Northern War? | Charles XII | |
| 186 | In which year was Constantinople conquered by the Turks? | 1453 | |
| 187 | King Henry VIII was the second monarch of which European royal house? | Tudor | |
| 188 | Which country was an allied power in World War II? | Soviet Union | |
| 189 | Who was the first president born in the independent United States? | Martin Van Buren | |
| 190 | Which countries participated in the Lobster War? | France and Brazil | |
| 191 | The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 were held in Hong Kong. | False | |
| 192 | Which of the following Assyrian kings did NOT rule during the Neo-Assyrian Empire? | Shamshi-Adad III | |
| 193 | Joseph Stalin's real name was Ioseb Bessarionis dze Dzugashvili. | True | |
| 194 | When did the French Revolution begin? | 1789 | |
| 195 | In the War of the Pacific (1879 - 1883), Bolivia lost its access to the Pacific Ocean after being defeated by which South American country? | Chile | |
| 196 | How many women joined the United States Armed Services during World War II? | 350,000 | |
| 197 | Who crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800? | Pope Leo III | |
| 198 | Who is believed to have been the first European to 'discover' the land of New Zealand? | Abel Tasman | |
| 199 | In the year 1900, what were the most popular first names given to boy and girl babies born in the United States? | John and Mary | |
| 200 | In what prison was Adolf Hitler held in 1924? | Landsberg Prison | |
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| 201 | What is the oldest US state? | Delaware | |
| 202 | Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold? | Surveyor to the City of London | |
| 203 | After his loss at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to which island? | St. Helena | |
| 204 | Which Nation did NOT have a Colony in modern-day North America? | Portugal | |
| 205 | What was the aim of the "Umbrella Revolution" in Hong Kong in 2014? | Genuine universal suffrage | |
| 206 | Sir Issac Newton served as a Member of Parliament, but the only recorded time he spoke was to complain about a draft in the chambers. | True | |
| 207 | Brezhnev was the 5th leader of the USSR. | True | |
| 208 | What is the name of the ship which was only a few miles away from the RMS Titanic when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912? | Californian | |
| 209 | Which of the following was not one of Joseph Stalin's ten blows during World War II? | Vistula-Oder Offensive | |
| 210 | Who discovered Penicillin? | Alexander Flemming | |
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