World History Quiz – Mostly recent History. Can you score a 6 or better?
Herodotus is known as the father of what?
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The Jonestown Massacre (mass suicide) of 1978 occurred in which country?
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What country was writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano originally taken to as a slave?
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What did 'Ho Chi Minh', taken as a name by the Vietnamese leader, mean?
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What nationality was explorer Vasco de Gama?
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What party did Winston Churchill represent as a Prime Minister?
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What was the first war to be sanctioned by the United Nations in 1950?
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What was the name of the Australian Prime Minister who, in 1967, disappeared while swimming and presumably drowned?
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What was the name of the predecessor of the United Nations?
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Where did the Lawrence Oates' final expedition take him?
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