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Question 1 of 10
It has nothing to do with either pizza delivery or an Edward G Robinson movie, but what does the name of Cleopatra's son Caesarion mean?
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Question 2 of 10
Genoa and Venice became rich trading what substance, which Europeans needed to conceal the taste of rotting meat?
Question 3 of 10
After Mormons abandoned polygamy in 1890, what state was finally added to the Union?
Question 4 of 10
Who was president for just 31 days, 105 minutes of which he spent giving the longest inauguration speech of any president?
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Question 5 of 10
Hating Moscow, Peter the Great built what new capital in 1703, on territory that had been Swedish Ingria until the Great Northern War?
Question 6 of 10
What Zaire dictator forbade anybody else from wearing leopard-print hats and claimed that it took eight men to carry his wooden cane?
Question 7 of 10
Adrian Block named Rhode Island in 1614, when he noticed an island with red clay shores. Hence, Roodt Eylandt, or Red Island. What nationality was he?
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Question 8 of 10
Posing as scrap metal merchants, people from what country occupied an abandoned whaling station near the Falklands, in 1982?
Question 9 of 10
In 2010, Rich Whitney was the Green Party candidate for governor in Illinois. Unfortunately, there was a typo in his name in 23 wards, about half of which were mostly African-American areas. How, exactly, did his name appear in those wards?
Question 10 of 10
The 1998 Good Friday agreement opened up an avenue for peace in what troubled part of the world?
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