History Quiz #882
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Q1. What was reportedly first used in battle in 919 CE?
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Q2. What did the UK's Mines and Collieries Act 1842 do in relation to underground work?
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Q3. What name were the treaties of: 1763, France ceded all its territories in America east of Mississippi (except New Orleans), in the West Indies and in India to Britain; 1783, recognised USA's independence from Britain; 1898, Spain relinquished almost all of its remaining overseas territories to the USA?
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Q4. In 1459, the Battle of Blore Heath in Staffordshire, England, 2 miles east of Market Drayton in Shropshire, was the first major battle of the main part of which campaign?
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Q5. Which US holiday commemorates either a celebration by Spaniards on 8 September 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida, the arrival of 38 English settlers at Berkeley Hundred on 4 December 1619, or the Pilgrims' activities in Plymouth in 1621?
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Q6. What is the name of the small municipality near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?
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Q7. Who was the last Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic of France, and the first President of the Fifth Republic?
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