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- Who was Archduke Ferdinand?
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- The leader of Germany's armed forces
- The future Tsar of Russia
- The British ambassador to Germany
- The heir to the throne of Austria-HungaryCorrect answer
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- William Murdoch.
- J. Bruce Ismay.Correct answer
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- MosesCorrect answer
- Abraham
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- Clistsenes
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- Poseidon
- Apollo
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- ZeusCorrect answer
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- Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal)Correct answer
- Willem Janszoon (Netherlands)
- Thomas Aubert (France)
- Vasco da Gama (Portugal)
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- John II of France.
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- A mythical king of Athens.
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- Slaves
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- All of the aboveCorrect answer
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- Icarus
- DaedalusCorrect answer
- Radamantis
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- The conqueror of Ecuador.
- The conqueror of Bolivia.
- The conqueror of Peru.Correct answer
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- First woman president of the Philippines.
- First female prime minister of Israel.Correct answer
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- MenelausCorrect answer
- Agamemnon
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- Joseph GoebbelsCorrect answer
- Max Amann
- Herbert Backe
- Hans Biebow
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- A Vietnamese revolutionary leader
- Chairman of the Workers' Party in Vietnam
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- John Moore
- Duke of WellingtonCorrect answer
- William Bligh
- Horatio Nelson
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- Friedrich Reich
- Lenin
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- Friedrich EngelsCorrect answer
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- Violette Szabo.
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- Vera Atkins.
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- Heracles
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- TheseusCorrect answer
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- AthensCorrect answer
- Sparta
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- Roman General
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- Roman Gladiator
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- Aretha Franklin.Correct answer
- Whitney Houston.
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- Andrew Jackson
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- George I
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- George IV
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- Christopher Columbus
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- Khepri
- Sobek
- KhonsuCorrect answer
- Set
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- Vasco da Gama
- Niccolò PoloCorrect answer
- Gaspar da Cruz
- Jan Huyghen van Linschoten
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- Zeus
- UranusCorrect answer
- Cronus
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- Vicente Guerrero
- José María Morelos
- Agustín de IturbideCorrect answer
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- CharlemagneCorrect answer
- Ludovico Pio
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- Bartolomeu Dias (Portugal)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano (Italy)
- Willem Schouten (Netherlands)Correct answer
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portugal)
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- John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto, Italian)
- Vasco da Gama (Portuguese)Correct answer
- Christopher Columbus (Italian/Spanish)
- Cornelis de Houtman (Dutch)
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- Margaret Thatcher (Britain)Correct answer
- Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo (Portugal)
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norway)
- Milka Planinc (Yugoslavia)
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- King ClovisCorrect answer
- Charlemagne
- Pipinus the Brief
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- Sancho I.
- Alfonso I.Correct answer
- Dionysius I.
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- Bernardino Rivadavia
- Justo José de Urquiza
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- Heo Jeong
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- Thomas Jefferson
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- John Adams
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- Marco Coceyo Nerva
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- AugustusCorrect answer
- Caesar
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- Eudoxos of Cnidus
- Aristharcus of Samos
- Erathostenes of CyreneCorrect answer
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- Henry VIICorrect answer
- Edward VI
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- Richard III
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- Zachary Taylor.
- John F. Kennedy.
- William Henry Harrison.Correct answer
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- PandoraCorrect answer
- Aphrodite
- Athena
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- James MadisonCorrect answer
- Andrew Jackson
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
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- Georges Cuvier
- Jean-Baptiste Audebert
- Francis de Laporte de Castelnau
- Aimé BonplandCorrect answer
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- Apollo
- PoseidonCorrect answer
- Helios
- None of the above
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- Zeus
- Kratos
- AresCorrect answer
- Hades
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- Artemis
- Apollo
- AresCorrect answer
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- Venus
- Hestia
- AthenaCorrect answer
- Demeter
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