History Quiz #690
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Q1. There have been many peace walls built in Northern Ireland, some 60 of which remain in the 2020s; when were most of them built?
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Q2. From 1618 the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant countries in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1632 became a fight between the Hapsburgs and Spain on one side against who on the other?
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Q3. What was the subject of the referendum held in Australia 1999?
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Q4. Besides the assassination of US president John F Kennedy, what happened on 22 November 1963?
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Q5. The world's first publicly subscribed passenger railway, the Stockton and Darlington, opened in England with steam engines when?
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Q6. In 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical "Humanum Genus", which denounced a number of beliefs and practices such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state, in relation to which group in particular?
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Q7. In 1648, Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov was the first European to sail through what Strait?
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