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Q1. What was reportedly first used in battle in 919 CE?

A
Gunpowder
B
Bow and arrows
C
Flag of truce
D
Axes
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Q2. What did the UK's Mines and Collieries Act 1842 do in relation to underground work?

A
Required breaks of 10 minutes every 5 hours
B
Standardised testing for mine gas
C
Limited shifts to 10 hours
D
Prohibited work by women, girls of any age, and boys under ten
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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?

A
Treaties respectively of: Paris, London and Seville
B
Treaty of Paris
C
Treaty of Versailles
D
Treaties respectively of: Vienna, Stockholm and Seville
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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?

A
The Seven Years War
B
The Wars of the Roses
C
The English Civil War
D
Jacobite Rebellion
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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?

A
Columbus Day
B
Thanksgiving
C
Halloween
D
Memorial Day
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Q6. What is the name of the small municipality near Calcutta where the first hollow-nosed rifle bullets were made?

A
Dum Dum
B
Hollow Point
C
Soft Point
D
Cordite
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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?

A
Félix Gaillard
B
Georges Pompidou
C
Charles de Gaulle
D
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
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