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In what nation were the Dead Sea Scrolls found beginning in 1947?
Question 2 of 10
Abraham Lincoln is known best as which of these?
Question 3 of 10
Who was the wife of King Louis XVI and the primary symbol of the French royalty's extravagance and excess?
Question 4 of 10
In October 2010, what website leaked around 400,000 classified military documents relating to the Iraq War?
Question 5 of 10
What physical feature was a trademark of Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union from 1985-91?
Question 6 of 10
Who was an influential Roman Catholic priest?
Question 7 of 10
Who refused to give up his or her bus seat to make room for a white passenger on December 1, 1955?
Question 8 of 10
What term means to surrender under agreed conditions?
Question 9 of 10
Who died in 1953 from a stroke?
Question 10 of 10
What was the name of Donald Trump's first wife?

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