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The name of the French village of Domremy-la-Pucelle commemorates which French heroine who was born there?

Joan of Arc

Military | Religion

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Who led a French expedition to chart the coast of New Holland (aka Australia) between 1800 and 1803 aboard the ship 'Le Geographe' in the course of which he met with Matthew Flinders at Encounter Bay in April 1802?

Nicolas BAUDIN

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Who, alongside Bobby Seale, co-founded the Black Panther Party and formulated its Ten-Point Program? He was killed in 1989 by Tyrone Robinson, a member of the Black Guerilla Family.

Huey P. NEWTON

Revolutions & Protests

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Prudhoe Bay, Alaska is the northern terminus of which network of roads that stretches for almost 30,000 kilometres? But for a short break at the Darién Gap, it is possible to travel down this network to the southern tip of the Americas.

Pan-American Highway

Travel & Transport

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What Arabic word is used to refer to the direction of the Kaaba, the holiest site in Mecca, and is the direction Muslims should face while praying?

QIBLA

Religion

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Home to the annual World Economic Forum, which Swiss city is the highest in Europe?

Davos

Businesses / Organisations | Politics & Economics

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Which miniature painted by Hans Holbein in 1539 is a betrothal portrait of which German noblewoman who would become the fourth wife of Henry VIII?

Anne of Cleves

Unelected Leaders

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In 1533 which pope refused to annul the marriage of Henry VIII?

Clement VII

Popes

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Operation Bodyguard provided critical support to the Allies’ D-Day invasion in which way?

Distracted Germans away from the Normandy landings with misinformation – such as a possible Scotland-Norway invasion – and fake paratroopers

Military

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James Hoban modelled the design of the first and second floors of the White House on which building, where both houses of the Irish parliament, or Oireachtas (air-OCH-tis), meet?

LEINSTER House