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Q1. What region in the Dinaric Alps, from the southern borders of the Pannonian plain to the rivers Sava and Drina, was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century and then annexed variously by Austria-Hungary and Yugoslavia in the 20th century?

A
Nepal
B
Bosnia
C
Uzbekistan
D
Tanzania
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Q2. What was the name of the British India "Special Force", the brainchild of British Brigadier Orde Charles Wingate, that operated behind Japanese lines in Burma & India in 1943/1944 during World War II?

A
The Chindits
B
The Gurkhas
C
The LRDG
D
The Kardashians
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Q3. At the end of 1937 the system known as the Estado Novo began in which country?

A
Portugal
B
Brazil
C
Colombia
D
Spain
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Q4. Following 645 CE the government of which country devised and implemented what is known as Taika Reforms of land ownership, base for taxation, and centralised, imperial government?

A
Vietnam
B
Korea
C
Japan
D
Laos
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Q5. What is the only Southeast Asian nation that has never been colonised, mainly because it had a long succession of able rulers in the 1800s, and was able to exploit the rivalry between the French and the British?

A
Thailand
B
Australia
C
Portugal
D
Pakistan
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Q6. What was a significance of the 1969 Battle of Hamburger Hill, or Ap Bia Mountain, in Vietnam?

A
There was 100% loss of Vietnamese lives involved
B
It was the last before the armistice agreement
C
It was the bloodiest fight of the Vietnam war, in terms of American dead
D
It was a turning point in American combat operations in the country
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Q7. When Australia built a long fence complex across the country in the first years of the 20th century, what was it aiming to contain?

A
Koalas
B
Sparrows
C
Horned lizards (Thorny devils)
D
Rabbits
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