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What is the name of the Catholic priest who led Mexico's resistance during their War of Independence?
Don Miguel Hidalgo
Don Miguel de Cervantes
Don Jose Guallare
Don Jose Porre
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The dictator Kim Il Sung founded what country in Asia?
China
North Korea
Vietnam
Cambodia
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Giuseppe Garibaldi led military forces that unified what country?
Montecarlo
Algeria
Italy
France
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The Scottish businessman James Busby drafted the Declaration of Independence for what nation which he would then become a high legal authority over?
Israel
India
New Zealand
Australia
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Ayatollah Khomeini led an Islamic fundamentalist revolution in what country that led to it becoming a full authoritarian theocracy?
Iran
Palestine
Afghanistan
Iraq
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What first President of democratic Russia helped construct the country's republic as the U.S.S.R. collapsed?
Boris Yeltsin
Yuri Andropov
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
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What are the names of the first king and queen of reunited Spain following the Reconquista?
Sullivan and Clarice
Alonzo and Raya
Ferdinand and Isabella
Madrid and Suzette
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Jimmu is traditionally hailed as the first emperor of what ancient Asian nation?
China
Japan
India
Mongolia
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King Harald, the first unifier of Norway, was known by what additional moniker to distinguish him from other Viking lords who shared his first name?
Ironjaw
Shortlegs
Redeyes
Fairhair
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What is the name of the first President of the United States of America who also won the country its independence?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
John Adams
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What socialist revolutionary established a dictatorial regime in Cuba after a 1953 rebellion?
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Michael Rouge
Augusto Pinochet
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Toussaint Louverture was the revolutionary hero who led a slave revolt that freed what country?
Egypt
Republic of Congo
Jamaica
Haiti
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The ruler Huangdi, who was said to be China's first great emperor, is better known by what honorific title in the modern day?
The Yellow Emperor
The Rainbow Emperor
The Iron Magistrate
The Ruby Magistrate
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Karl Renner returned what country into a state of stability following each of the World Wars?
Slovakia
Germany
Austria
Italy
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Muhammad Ali was an Egyptian statesman who helped lay down the groundwork to free his homeland from what other country's control?
The British Empire
The Ottoman Empire
The Byzantine Empire
The Mali Empire
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What liberator of many South American countries is the founder of Bolivia and Colombia specifically?
Hercule Grenarre
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Ricardo al Lyons
Simon Bolivar
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What is the name of the Venezuelan compatriot of Simon Bolivar who helped establish the republic of Bolivia?
Antonio Jose de Sucre
Edmund Louis-Raul
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Michel Carron Gratte
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China's modern communist government was founded by what authoritarian?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Xi Jinping
Cao Cao
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Sukarno was the authoritarian leader who founded the modern government of Indonesia since he declared their nation free from what other country's colonial control?
The U.K.
The Netherlands
Australia
Japan
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Genghis Khan united neighboring tribes to found what singular country?
Bangladesh
Thailand
Japan
Mongolia
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Sir Henry Parkes was directly responsible for what country gaining its independence?
Australia
Madagascar
South Africa
Saudi Arabia
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah is regarded as the patron founder of what country that split from India while India gained its independence?
Cambodia
Pakistan
Palestine
Malaysia
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What man founded the Soviet Union and also led the Bolshevik Revolution within Russia?
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Yuri Andropov
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James VI and I unofficially founded Great Britain by uniting what two kingdoms?
Wales and Cornwall
Germany and Soctland
England and Scotland
Spain and France
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Mahatma Gandhi helped provide what country with independence from the British?
India
Indonesia
Thailand
Israel
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Norman Manley was the first and only premier of what country which he provided with universal suffrage so it could become a true democracy?
Jamaica
The Philippines
Turkiye
Hungary
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Jose Bonifacio de Andrada helped free what country from colonial control?
Brazil
Paraguay
Chad
The Ivory Coast
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Mohammad Zahir Shah founded what country's modern constitutional government until the rise of the Taliban forced him to flee?
Palestine
Angola
Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia
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Many say that the ruler who founded the Kingdom of France was what European monarch who also started the Carolingian Empire?
Harold Goodwinson
Charlemagne
Otto von Bismarck
Frankel
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk tore down the Ottoman Empire and turned it into what modern country?
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
Uruguay
Turkiye
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