History Quiz #457
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Q1. In 1797 Norman Cross in Huntingdon, Great Britain, saw something described as the first what?
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Q2. A major USA dam, completed in 1935, was known as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947 at which point its name was changed by a joint resolution of Congress to what?
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Q3. Vasco da Gama set sail from Portugal in 1497 to find a direct eastern route to which country?
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Q4. On 16 June 1883 in Sunderland, UK, there was a disaster in which 183 children were asphyxiated; where did it happen?
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Q5. The representatives of how many countries are party to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change?
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Q6. What was the immediate cause in 1975 of at least 17 years of civil war in Mozambique, displacement of at least four million people, the death of perhaps a million more as a result of violence, famine, and disease, and flight of foreign investment?
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Q7. Where was the British ship Royal Oak sunk by German submarine U47 in October 1939?
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