History Quiz #913
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Q1. Who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which followed Alexander the Great as Pharaohs of Egypt?
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Q2. In its early years the European Economic Community (EEC), created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957, was nicknamed what?
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Q3. Over several weeks after the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union agreed to give up its monopoly of power, on February 7, 1990, the constituent republics of the USSR held their first competitive elections. How many republics were there?
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Q4. The "Entente Cordiale", signed on 8 April 1904, was a pact to resolve all outstanding issues between France and which other country?
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Q5. Who, with his crew, was credited as being the first person to circumnavigate the continents of North and South America, including a transit of the Northwest Passage?
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Q6. American Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, who was convicted for treason in 1949 and pardoned by US President Gerald Ford in 1977, was popularly known as whom?
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Q7. The last four nations to join the United Nations 193 members are Switzerland (2002), Timor-Leste (2002), Montenegro (2006) and which other nation?
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