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Question 1 of 10
What Russian emperor put down the streltsi (a Moscow version of the Beefeaters) after they rebelled while he was abroad in 1690s?
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Question 2 of 10
What first First Lady said, "I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else"?
Question 3 of 10
What element is common to the nicknames of William Frederick Cody and James Butler Hickok?
Question 4 of 10
Despite finishing dead last in a West Point class of 34, he redeemed himself during the Civil War, only to get his rear handed to him by the Sioux in 1876. Who?
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Question 5 of 10
Nine people died in the Great London Beer Flood of 1814, when several vats ruptured and sent a million-gallon wave down what street?
Question 6 of 10
My grave site in Atlanta is part of a National Historic Site named for me, and my tombstone reads, "Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last." Who am I?
Question 7 of 10
What period of European history runs from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance?
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Question 8 of 10
What 1850s conflict is known to the Russians as the Eastern War and, at one time, to the British as the Russian War?
Question 9 of 10
In AD 9, General Publius Quintilius Varus led three legions into an ambush, where Germanic tribesmen massacred them in Rome's worst defeat in two centuries. Where?
Question 10 of 10
The Cloaca Maxima was an example of Rome's genius for hydraulic architecture. What was it?
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