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| 1. | Which world famous 20th century figure was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in modern day Rebublic of Macedonia on 26th August 1910? |
| 2. | Who was most famously accused and convicted in the Rivonia Trial of 1963-64? |
| 3. | To which of his six wives was England's King Henry VIII married for the longest time? |
| 4. | In January 2011, Dilma Rousseff became the first female president of what country? |
| 5. | What country elected the world's first female prime minister in July 1960? |
| 6. | In 1975, Papua New Guinea achieved full independence from what country? |
| 7. | What two countries fought the "Pastry War" between 1838 and 1839? |
| 8. | When Ronald Reagan won the U.S. presidential election in 1980, who came second? |
| 9. | Who was Sandra Rivett's well-known employer at the time of her murder in Belgravia, London in November 1974? |
| 10. | In what U.S. city is Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865? |
| 11. | In what country was Albert Einstein born? |
| 12. | In what century did Philip II send the Spanish Armada to invade England? |
| 13. | What was the number of the last Apollo mission to land on the moon? |
| 14. | What future president became U.S. vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973? |
| 15. | Who discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610 after constructing the first astronomical telescope? |
| 16. | In the program for a 1968 exhibition of his work, who said, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes"? |
| 17. | Who was Mayor of Berlin when the Berlin Wall was built and later became Chancellor of West Germany? |
| 18. | Who founded the Mongol Empire in 1206? |
| 19. | Previously the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States, what global financial services firm went bankrupt in 2008 in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis? |
| 20. | Which queen had the shortest reign of Henry VIII's six wives? |
| 21. | In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt famously wrote "Speak softly and carry a big..." what? |
| 22. | Who is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated? |
| 23. | What modern day capital city was the seat of the Qajar dynasty from 1789 to 1925 and the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1979? |
| 24. | In what post-war year did the Berlin airlift begin, carrying supplies to the cut-off residents of West Berlin? |
| 25. | Who was the first U.S. president in office to have been born in the 20th century? |
| 26. | Which Welsh fashion designer is associated with the invention of the miniskirt and hot pants? |
| 27. | What name was given to this multi-stranded knotted rope used for flogging in days gone by? |
| 28. | Part of the Manhattan Project, what 'T' was the code name given to the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on 16th July 1945? |
| 29. | In what battle was Pickett's Charge? |
| 30. | What was "Che" Guevara's given first name? |
| 31. | Who founded the Salvation Army in London in 1865? |
| 32. | What war was started in Sarajevo by a Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip? |
| 33. | Active between 1925 and 1992, what four letter acronym described the infamous Soviet news agency? |
| 34. | In which year did the Wright Brothers make the first ever sustained, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air, manned flight? |
| 35. | In 1967, Svetlana Alliluyeva caused an international furore when she defected from the Soviet Union to the United States. Who was her famous father? |
| 36. | What King of France was executed in January 1793 during the French Revolution? |
| 37. | What was the nationality of the first non-Italian Pope since 1523? |
| 38. | Who became the first Roman Emperor in 27 BC? |
| 39. | What is the name of the famous embroidered cloth depicting the Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings in 1066? |
| 40. | Who was British Prime Minister at the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation? |
| 41. | What two Persian Gulf countries were at war from September 1980 until August 1988? |
| 42. | Leading up to and during World War II, what name was given to the German defence line opposite France's Maginot Line? |
| 43. | Passed by the U.S. Congress on 4th June 1919, and ratified on 18th August 1920, the 19th amendment granted what? |
| 44. | In March 1912, whose last words were, "I am just going outside and may be some time"? |
| 45. | Who was U.S. President when Hawaii became the 50th state? |
| 46. | Who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. on 4th April 1968? |
| 47. | Known as the "mother" of social work, name this pioneer American activist and reformer who helped sway a movement for women's suffrage at the turn of the 20th century. |
| 48. | General Jaruzelski declared martial law in which country in 1981? |
| 49. | On which date did Germany invade Poland, effectively marking the beginning of World War II? |
| 50. | What British monarch died on 20th January 1936? |
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