History Quiz #780
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Q1. Where was "the Maccabiah bridge collapse", the failure of a pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon River on 14 July 1997 which killed 4 and injured 60?
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Q2. When British navigator James Cook arrived at what are now called Cook Islands what did he name them?
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Q3. In a May 1940 operation codenamed "Operation Fork" the British Royal Navy and Royal Marines invaded where?
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Q4. Which international agreement did the US join In November 2016, withdraw from in November 2020, and re-join in February 2021?
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Q5. What was the function of the Cloaca Maxima in ancient Rome?
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Q6. To investigate his theories of the diaspora of South American peoples, who sailed in a balsa raft called Kon-Tiki across the Pacific Ocean in 1947?
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Q7. Following August 1945 Mongolia gained its independence from the Republic of China as a result of what?
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