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On the 14th of July, 1789, French civilians proved their willingness to overthrow the monarchy by storming what prison?
The Caisson
Notre Dame
The Chateau D'If
The Bastille
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The Cuban Missile Crisis began due to a strike force landing in what bay with the intent of killing Fidel Castro?
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Rum
The Bay of Friends
The Bay of Dogs
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Jesus Christ was born in what Middle East city associated with the line of King David?
Bethlehem
Cana
Golgotha
Nazareth
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Franz Ferdinand's assassination in what city led to the outbreak of World War One?
Budapest
Sarajevo
Prague
Vienna
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In Mainz, Germany, what inventor revolutionized human knowledge by inventing the printing press?
James Watt
Nikola Tesla
Johannes Gutenberg
Martin Luther
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Genghis Khan took over much of Asia when he conquered what capital of China?
Gwangju
Shanghai
Beijing
Hong Kong
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In what city did America's Founding Fathers sign the Declaration of Independence to start their nation?
Boston
New York City
Philadelphia
Little Rock
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The Byzantine Empire collapsed in 1453 after the Ottomans conquered what capital city?
Burgard
Servan
Alexendretta
Constantinople
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A new age of warfare was spawned because the first atomic bomb was launched against what Japanese city?
Hiroshima
Kyoto
Fukuoka
Sendai
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Connection between Europe and the Americas was established because Christopher Columbus landed on what island?
Hispaniola
San Faraday
Cuba
St. Lucia
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At what location in Belgium was Napoleon defeated for the final time?
Waterloo
Castor
El Alamein
Loceille
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Communist authorities erected a wall to divide what European capital in a major sign of the division caused by the Cold War?
Rome
Dublin
Berlin
Paris
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A treaty signed in what city ended World War One while setting the stage for World War Two?
Brussels
London
Paris
Versailles
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At what 1066 battle location did William the Conqueror claim England for his own?
Redgrave
Bradenburg
Hastings
Leeds
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At what point along the Greek coast did King Leonidas and his Spartan band delay the Persian Empire's vastly superior numbers?
Arangar
Chernabog
Thermopylae
Aguascalientes
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Hernan Cortes destroyed the Aztec Empire by killing Emperor Cuauhtémoc in what capital city?
Cuzaca
Tenochtitlan
Chichen Itza
Suriname
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In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in what German city?
Cologne
Wittenberg
Bonn
Dresden
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King John I signed the Magna Carta along the shore of what river?
The River Seine
The River Thames
The Volga River
The Black River
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The Apollo 11 lunar mission launched from what space center in America?
Kennedy Space Center
Roosevelt Space Center
Johnson Space Center
Madison Space Center
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In 1683, Ottoman forces unsuccessfully besieged what Austrian city in an attempt to begin a larger conquest of all Europe?
Vienna
Innsbruck
Zell Am See
Salzburg
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D-Day saw Allied forces storm beaches in what area of France to begin their reconquest of mainland Europe?
Breton
Normandy
Luhan
The Rhineland
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In the year 570, Islam's central prophet Muhammad was born in what city that would become a holy site for the faith?
Mecca
Alexandria
Tehran
Baghdad
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Julius Caesar crossed what river to show his intent to conquer Rome?
The Tiber
The Rubicon
The Euphrates
The Volga
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In what ocean did the Titanic sink?
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
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What European country was reunified in 1469 when regional rulers Isabella and Ferdinand were married within its borders?
Italy
France
Germany
Spain
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In what country did the Battle of Dan-no-Ura begin the military empire known as the Kamakura Shogunate?
China
Korea
India
Japan
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At what bridge did Constantine win the right to rule over the Roman Empire?
Bursten Bridge
Golfrey Bridge
Milvian Bridge
Kurtzen Bridge
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In what country did the Battle of the Somme turn the tide of World War One with the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives?
Germany
France
The U.K.
Russia
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At what holy site did Siddhartha Gautama mediate under a tree and found the tenets of Buddhism?
The Golden Temple
Bodh Gaya
Hai Kudzu
The Taj Mahal
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In 1644, the Battle of Marston Moor turned the tide of what nation's civil war?
The U.S.A.
Hungary
Prussia
England
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