History Quiz #880
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Q1. Who was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1066?
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Q2. Who was the 11th and 12th century ruler of Georgia, celebrated by Georgians as their most successful, leading them out from Turkish domination, reuniting the country, and subsequently being canonised by the Georgian Orthodox Church?
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Q3. Paro International Airport, commissioned in 1968 (initially as an airstrip), is the first and the only international airport in which country?
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Q4. Which monarch presided in Great Britain over the time of the French Revolution, Britain's loss of its American colonies, and two decisive defeats of the French?
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Q5. The version of Magna Carta accepted and authorised by King John of England at Runnymede was annulled shortly afterwards by Pope Innocent III; who then issued the version which survived to become the basis of much of modern Western law?
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Q6. Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact what happened to Poland in 1939?
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Q7. In 2023 and 2024 Finland and Sweden joined which international organisation?
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