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Q1. What traditional sport was banned in Britain in 2004?

A
Tossing the caber
B
Cage fighting
C
Gaelic football
D
Fox hunting
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Q2. When and where did the Austro-Hungarian Schutzkorps first operate?

A
1908, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
B
1912, in Hungary
C
1914, in Bosnia and Herzegovina
D
1933, in Austria
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Q3. Why did Washington cross the Delaware to Trenton on the night of 25 December 1776?

A
To visit his family on Christmas night
B
To attack the British
C
To finish his Christmas shopping
D
To retreat from British troops
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Q4. What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War?

A
Cherrypicker
B
Ironside
C
Squarehead
D
Plus four
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Q5. Who was the first US president to travel outside the USA while in office?

A
John F Kennedy
B
Thomas Jefferson
C
Abraham Lincoln
D
Theodore Roosevelt
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Q6. In which of these years did the Spanish Armada sail to attack England?

A
1914
B
1273
C
1998
D
1588
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Q7. Argentina encouraged a massive wave of immigration from Europe starting in 1857; between then and 1940 people from which country formed the bulk of the influx?

A
Portugal
B
Spain
C
Italy
D
UK
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