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Question 1 of 10
Until they were beaten back at the Marne in 1914, German troops came within 15 miles of what capital?
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Question 2 of 10
In 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor. Of what state?
Question 3 of 10
When the Italian peninsula was reunited in the 1800s, one tiny enclave republic was left out, because it had granted Giuseppe Garibaldi exile there. It's still independent today. What is it?
Question 4 of 10
What famous Carthaginian general was defeated in 202 BCE, at the Battle of Zama?
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Question 5 of 10
In 2004, what former world leader's son was arrested in South Africa and accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea?
Question 6 of 10
Alcuin of York served in whose court, becoming in many ways the founding intellectual father of the Carolingian Renaissance?
Question 7 of 10
In what war did Zachary Taylor win the Battle of Palo Alto and the Battle of Buena Vista?
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Question 8 of 10
Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta was probably the most traveled man before the Steam Age. He journeyed 75,000 miles and his book "Rihlih" describes his encounters with some 60 rulers in the 1300s. Where was ibn Battuta from?
Question 9 of 10
Who was the 20th-century's first Democratic president?
Question 10 of 10
In a 1998 New Yorker essay, Toni Morrison called whom America's "first black president"?
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