History Quiz #207
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Q1. On 12 November 1991 pro-independence student demonstrators in Dili who were protesting the Indonesian occupation of East Timor were shot at by Indonesian forces, killing at least 250. Where were they at the time?
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Q2. What land, a British colony for 155 years, and occupied by Japan briefly in WW II, was ceded to the People's Republic of China in 1997?
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Q3. What was the Roman name for Ireland?
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Q4. What ancient civilization was centred in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, Syria and Israel?
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Q5. What colour connects 29 October 1929, 19 October 1987 and 22 November 1963 in US history?
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Q6. An act passed on 5 July 1900 and given Royal Assent by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1900 led to what milestone in the constitutional history of Australia?
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Q7. When was the ICC, official base in The Hague in the Netherlands, established?
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