History Quiz #815
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Q1. Which of these is a fighter plane used by the British air force during World War II?
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Q2. King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the 9th king of the House of Chakri, who became king in 1946 in which country, became its longest reigning monarch, and the second longest in the world, when his reign ended in 2016?
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Q3. The Bering Sea is named after what or whom?
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Q4. What was the mission of the two Voyager spacecraft sent into space in 1977?
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Q5. The first English prince to bear the title "Prince of Wales" eventually became which King?
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Q6. How did Helen Sharman make history in 1991?
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Q7. Between 1985 and 1991 a number of demonstrations and protests led to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania variously taking back their independence from the USSR and (later) Russia; what overall name has characterised the revolution?
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