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The new industrialists built gas-lit factories close to the coalfields and rivers that powered them, and the workers followed, as cities swelled. What is the usual name for this period of British history?
Question 2 of 10
On October 18, 1867, the US took possession of what territory, which it had bought from Russia for $7.2 million, or just 2 cents an acre?
Question 3 of 10
Robespierre, Danton and Marat were called Jacobins for a club near Rue St-Jacques, in what city?
Question 4 of 10
In 1982, Argentina invaded the Malvinas. What do the rest of us call the Malvinas?
Question 5 of 10
What element was called "the flesh of the gods" by ancient Egyptians?
Question 6 of 10
In 1947, what balsa-wood raft did Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl sail 6900 km from Peru to an archipelago near Tahiti?
Question 7 of 10
Thorfinn Karlsefni set up a Viking colony in Vinland, but it only lasted three winters, in part due to warfare with the aboriginal Skraelings. Where do most scholars think Vinland was?
Question 8 of 10
The S in what president's middle name stood for both his grandfathers, whose names were Shippe and Solomon?
Question 9 of 10
On December 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured in ad-Dawr near his home town Tikrit, in what was called Operation Red Dawn. Where did they find him?
Question 10 of 10
What is the word we have changed in this quote from a famous speech? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me penguin!

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