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Question 1 of 10
A pragmatic socialist, Bob Hawke was reelected prime minister of Australia when the right was divided by the Joh for Canberra campaign, which rallied behind Joh Bjelke-Petersen, the right-wing premier of what state?
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Question 2 of 10
In 1938, to slow down the marauding Japanese, what country blew up the levees on the Yellow River to flood thousands of square miles in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, drowning some 800,000 of their own people in the process?
Question 3 of 10
We've string beans and onions, cabbages and scallions, and all kind of fruit. But yes, we have none of what fruit today, per the 1923 song by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn?
Question 4 of 10
In 1964, Nikita Khrushchev was pushed from power while on vacation in Crimea, by what former protege?
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Question 5 of 10
Where has Tonibler become a popular boy's name, given Tony Blair's role in battling Slobodan Milosevic?
Question 6 of 10
During the Vietnam War, Operation Ranch Hand dumped 20 million gallons of color-coded herbicides on the jungle. The best known of these was a 50:50 mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D that went by what name?
Question 7 of 10
Named for the tough, scrubby vegetation of the Mediterranean Coast, the Maquis battled the occupying Axis in what country?
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Question 8 of 10
What independent country did Saddam Hussein invade as a way to regain Iraq's "lost province"?
Question 9 of 10
Once Russia left the war, Germany refought the Somme, Ypres and the Marne, with a new system that used elite stormtroopers to punch through weak points. What war?
Question 10 of 10
Talk about being a sore loser. Saddam Hussein destroyed six million barrels a day of what country's oil, when he set its oil wells on fire?
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