History Quiz #243
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Q1. How many theses were nailed to a church door by Martin Luther in 1517 (generally accepted to be the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, on All Saints Eve, 31 October)?
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Q2. Which 15th century Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope?
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Q3. Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young artillery officer of Alsatian-Jewish descent, was convicted in France in 1894 and again in 1899 of treason. Evidence against whom, the real culprit, surfaced by 1896 but was suppressed and only given weight to exonerate him in 1906 after a prolonged public campaign?
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Q4. What public disturbance early in June 1780 in London, described by Charles Dickens in "Barnaby Rudge", was put down by the military and followed by the execution of 11 people?
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Q5. Which was the first Soviet Union republic to establish its independence when the Soviet Union was dissolving?
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Q6. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up while en route from London to New York killing 270 people on board and on the ground, and resulting in conviction for a Libyan national. Where did the explosion happen?
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Q7. Who, legend has it, led Phoenicians to found Carthage?
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