History Quiz #784
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Q1. The husband of Mumtaz designed and built what magnificent monument in India to her when she died in 1631?
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Q2. What was the name of a set of 3 treaties signed between the USA and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne and Southern Arapaho between 21 and 28 October 1867, requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma?
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Q3. Which nation established the first settlement in what is now South Africa at Table Bay in 1652?
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Q4. Before becoming president of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt was vice president to whom?
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Q5. A senate was the governing body of which of these empires?
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Q6. When Charles I was beheaded, and contrary to custom, the words "Behold the head of a traitor!" were not said when his head was held up and exhibited to the crowd. Revolutionary leader Oliver Cromwell ordered what else to occur that was unusual after such a beheading?
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Q7. For what feat did American Fred A. Birchmore become well-known after 1935?
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