History Quiz #472
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Q1. Tāufaʻāhau I, later known as George Tupou I, finally united what country under his rule in 1852?
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Q2. The Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 led by men such as John Ball, Wat Tyler and Jack Straw, and the most extreme and widespread insurrection in English history, was about what?
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Q3. What was the cause of a state of emergency in Kenya from October 1952 to December 1959?
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Q4. Che Guevara is associated with the history of which of these countries?
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Q5. Besides the relatively recent annual honorarium of £5,750, the Poet Laureate of the UK has, since the 1500s, been traditionally rewarded annually with what?
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Q6. What caused the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr to be dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere?
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Q7. George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards were well known in the British American colonies in the mid 18th century for being what?
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