History Quiz #861
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Q1. In 2014 at the age of 93 Phyllis Latour Doyle, "Pippa", received the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur (the Legion of Honour, knight class) for activities in occupied France in World War II; where was she born?
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Q2. Why was the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania founded by William Penn?
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Q3. Which naval battle took place in December 1939, the second major naval battle, apart from the continuous engagements in the long-running Battle of the Atlantic, in the events for the Second World War?
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Q4. Chronologically, Marengo could have hobnobbed with which other of these horses?
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Q5. What triggered the main peak of the mass extinction of life at the end of the Permian Period?
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Q6. The warriors known as "berserkers" were legendary figures in which mythology?
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Q7. According to Greek mythology, which of these was a young man from Abydos who fell in love with a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos, at the edge of the Hellespont, on the other side of the strait?
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