History Quiz #895
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Q1. Once the most famous clipper and the fastest, and profitable because of that speed, the UK's Cutty Sark, for over a decade from 1883 accelerated a major trade for Australia in what commodity?
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Q2. Scottish physician James Young Simpson (1811-1870) was the first to do what?
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Q3. To end The War of 1812, the USA and Great Britain signed which treaty on 24 December 1814?
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Q4. Where was the industrial accident on 2-3 December 1984 that caused the deaths of 3,000 to 16,000 people, for which 7 ex-employees were convicted in June 2010 and sentenced to 2 years imprisonment & a fine of about US$2,000 each?
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Q5. The ruling dynasty founded in 1270 CE in the Ethiopian Empire which lasted until its last Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974, claimed to be descended from the son of the Queen of Sheba and which biblical king?
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Q6. When the lighthouse marking the Royal Sovereign sandbank in Eastbourne, UK, was built in 1970 it was positioned on an offshore platform supported by a telescopic column. What did it replace?
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Q7. From before the 12th century until the 17th when it was abandoned, what walled stone city in southern Africa served as the capital of a kingdom thought to cover around 50,000 km² (19,000 sq mi)?
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