| Question | Answer |
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| Which famous 'dreamer' was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968? | |
| Which Australian outlaw killed three policemen and was hanged in November 1880? | |
| Which Egyptian Pharaoh, also known as Cheops, was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza? | |
| Which former Soviet Republic gained full independence on 25th December 1991? | |
| In which country did the Mau Mau uprising occur during the 1950s? | |
| Which volcano caused the loudest noise in recorded history when it erupted in 1883? | |
| What was the name of the raft used by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947? | |
| The site of which Moscow political building has been inhabited since the 2nd century BC? | |
| Which Mongol leader, grandson of Temujin, established the Yuan dynasty in China? | |
| Which city was capital of Japan from 1180 until 1868, when Tokyo became capital? | |
| Which civilisation ruled much of south-east Asia during the 9th-13th centuries? | |
| The Gulf War of 1991 was caused by the Iraqi invasion of which country? | |
| Which Soviet leader was removed from power by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964? | |
| Which war resulted from tension caused by the division of the country along the 38th Parallel? | |
| Which Scottish engineer is known for discovering the lower limit to temperature, absolute zero? | |
| The NATO bombing of which Balkan country in 1998-99 remains controversial? | |
| Which racist hate organisation first appeared in the southern USA in the 1860s? | |
| Which Gold Rush saw 100,000 people travel to north-western Canada in the 1890s? | |
| Which author, famous for 'The Jungle Book,' won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907? | |
| What name was given to Japanese pilots who would try to crash their planes into enemy ships? | |
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History As We Heard It IV
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