History Quiz #875
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Q1. Which ship, the largest and fastest in the world, with steam turbine propulsion, then a revolutionary development in ocean liner design, was launched on 20 September 1906?
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Q2. About how many million years ago is it thought that animal life forms evolved from amorphous to ones with front and back, top and bottom?
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Q3. After about 1000 CE the population of the largely below sea-level Netherlands had grown to the point where, by 1250, people had built what along its shores into a continuous sea defence?
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Q4. The Great Fire of London swept through the central parts of the English city of London in 1666 for about how long?
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Q5. Who was the first President of the French Fifth Republic?
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Q6. Peter Phillips, the only son of Princess Anne, the Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, and the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, married Autumn Kelly in 2008. Where did they meet?
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Q7. The first train carrying fare-paying passengers was in 1807 and pulled by a horse along the Oystermouth (later called the Swansea-Mumbles) Railway. The next year saw the first train with fares pulled by what?
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