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Question 1 of 10
In what year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Question 2 of 10
Archimedes is noted for running around the streets and screaming what?
Question 3 of 10
What French heroine was burned at the stake in 1431?
Question 4 of 10
What was the name of the mutual defense treaty that eight communist states in Eastern Europe established on 14 May 1955?
Question 5 of 10
Who was known as a pioneer in aviation and disappeared over the mid-Pacific in 1937?
Question 6 of 10
In what war was the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz fought?
Question 7 of 10
Who was Augustus?
Question 8 of 10
In what year did these events happen: prohibition begins in the U.S; the League of Nations is established; and women are granted the right to vote in the U.S?
Question 9 of 10
Marcus Aurelius became Emperor of which civilisation in 161 AD?
Question 10 of 10
With what Russian spacecraft did the space shuttle Atlantis dock in 1995?

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