History Quiz #820
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Q1. What did Sir Robert Peel establish in London in the 19th century?
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Q2. What was the name of the uprising in Rhode Island that attempted to extend voting rights because, by 1829, only landowners could vote, and thus 60% of the state's free white men could not (as well as non-whites and women)?
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Q3. Herodotus, Josephus, Michael King, Simon Schama and Edward Gibbon share what common focus?
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Q4. Which of these is a legendary island said to have sunk?
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Q5. How did the Pumpkin Papers become well-known in 1948?
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Q6. In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?
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Q7. How did the man who later became Britain's King George VI break with tradition when he married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923?
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