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Which PM died at 10 Downing Street in 1908?

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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What was the profession of Pope Benedict XVI's father?

Police officer

Popes

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Herbert Frahm took which name, under which he would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Willy BRANDT

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In 2022, the wreck of the Endurance was discovered in the Weddell Sea. Who led, and survived, its fateful trip to the Antarctic in 1915? His story was turned into a 2002 TV series starring Kenneth Branagh.

Ernest Shackleton

Explorers

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At which battle of 1532 did the Spanish forces led by Francisco Pizarro capture the Inca ruler Atahualpa?

Battle of Cajamarca

Military

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Which treaty lead to the Trail of Tears?

Treaty of New Echota

Native Americans & Old West

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Father Frank Bayard is the current High Master of which organisation? This order lost much of its political power after defeat at the 1410 Battle of Grunewald and is now a clerical institution under Papal law.

The TEUTONIC Knights

Religion

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John Wesley founded what Christian denomination in 1738?

Methodists

Religion

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Which city was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid dynasty? It became the capital of a modern state after the First World War, following the break up of the Ottoman Empire?

Baghdad

Ancient World | Capital Cities

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Which U.S. president was referred to by his opponents as “His Fraudulency” after a contested election in 1876?

Rutherford B Hayes

US Presidents