History Quiz #809
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Q1. Pepys, Wesley, Evelyn and Greville have what famous items in common?
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Q2. The extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe, was known as what?
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Q3. In 1949, when the part of Ireland that was more independent than the rest was declared a sovereign independent state outside the British Commonwealth, what name was given to it?
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Q4. What country was the first country in Oceania, and fifteenth overall, to legalise same-sex marriage?
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Q5. The Exxon Valdez oil spill, considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea, happened on 24 March 1989 in the Prince William Sound, in which state of the USA?
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Q6. What forces or countries were involved in the War of the Pacific?
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Q7. Sun Myung Moon is known as the founder of what movement?
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