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Q1. What did Sir Robert Peel establish in London in the 19th century?

A
Metropolitan Police Force
B
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
C
National Theatre
D
London Zoo
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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)?

A
Rhode Island Tea Party
B
Suffragette movement
C
Dorr Rebellion
D
The War of the Roses
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Q3. Herodotus, Josephus, Michael King, Simon Schama and Edward Gibbon share what common focus?

A
History
B
Medicine
C
Sculpture
D
Romance novels
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Q4. Which of these is a legendary island said to have sunk?

A
Artemis
B
Aramis
C
Atlantis
D
Arcturus
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Q5. How did the Pumpkin Papers become well-known in 1948?

A
In a study of nursery rhymes by Robert Graves
B
As a source for a biography of Mrs Beeton
C
As an alternative title for "Blueberries for Sal" by Robert McLoskey
D
In an espionage trial in the USA
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Q6. In 1937 the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Simpson were married in which country?

A
USA
B
England
C
France
D
Spain
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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?

A
He did not wear military uniform
B
First British royal since William the Conqueror to be married outside England
C
First non-morganatic marriage between prince and non-royal since accession of the House of Hanover
D
His best man was Roman Catholic
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