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Are there any true Historians among us?
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"Until they were beaten back at the Marne in 1914, German troops came within 15 miles of what capital?
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"In 1990, Douglas Wilder became the first elected black governor. Of what state?"
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Do you like the past? Then this is a quiz for you!
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"Who survived an assassination attempt because his Citroen DS Decapotable was able to speed away from his assailants, despite two flat tires?
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"Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia all owe their independence to what Caracas-born hero?"
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"Who was the Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya?
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"Who was head of the Syrian Computer Club and studied ophthalmology at the University of Damascus, only to end up running Syria after his brother died in a 1994 car crash?"
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"What country became an empire, when Peter the Great's victory over Sweden was sealed by the 1721 Peace of Nystadt?
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"In 2001, Hannelore Kohl killed herself with sleeping pills, having been tormented by a painful sensitivity to sunlight. Her husband once ran what country?"
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Don't come crying when you failed!
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"The Schengen Agreement got rid of internal passport controls in Europe. It was signed on the riverboat Princess Marie-Astrid at the point on River Moselle where three countries' borders meet. Which of these is not one of them?
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"When a mob murdered him in 2011, what dictator may have been worth $200 billion, which would have made him the richest man in the world?"
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"What Sudanese capital wasn't founded until 1821, when Muhammad Ali needed a base for his Egyptian troops?
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"During what country's Cultural Revolution did they consider making the red on traffic lights mean "go," since it was also the color of communism?"
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"What is the first name of Sir Lipton, the creator of Lipton Tea?
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"What is a nine-letter word meaning "prescribed as a rule or model"?"
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Music Quiz
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"In 2004, who released the single 'Toxic'?
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"Which number titles a 2011 album by Adele?"
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Music Quiz
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"According to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, what point in the week is "alright for fighting"?
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"Who wrote and recorded "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" for his future wife, Syreeta Wright, whom he met while she was working as a Motown secretary?"
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Music Quiz
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"Which girl was a Simon and Garfunkel hit?
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"Whose tombstone reads, "Everybody loves somebody sometime," for a song he only recorded because he was one short on a 1964 album?"
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Music Quiz
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"Who sings 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'?
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"In 2007, the band Genesis reunited for a world tour. Who plays drums with them?"
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Music Quiz
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"Ill Be Missing You by Puff Daddy featured which song by The Police?
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"As James Gandolfini would've known, what is the highest register among normal human voices?"