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| This man was the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China and became leader ofthe Communist Party during the Long March. | Mao Zedong | 93%
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| This man used nonviolent resistance to protest British colonialism in India in the early 20th century. | Mahatma Gandhi | 76%
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| The United States dropped the atomic bombs “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on these two cities, prompting Emperor Hirohito to announce his surrender from WWII on August 15, 1945. (Answer BOTH cities) | Hiroshima; Nagasaki | 72%
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| This river in China was strategically flooded by rival nations during the Warring States period. | Yellow River | 72%
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| This city was founded by the second Abbasid caliph to replace Damascus as the capital of the Caliphate. | Baghdad | 59%
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| Myanmar’s capital changed to this city in 2006 after previously having its capital at its largest city Yangon. | Naypyidaw | 48%
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| This city in Libya where ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed during a raid by extremists on an embassy. | Benghazi | 45%
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| Borned in 1985, this man is the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia. | Mohammad bin Salman | 38%
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| Timur founded the Timurid Empire, whose capital was situated in this city | Samarkand | 38%
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| This war was fought from June 5 to June 10, 1967 between Israel and the Arab countries of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. | The Six-Day War | 31%
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| After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (570-632), his daughter, and her husband rejected the authority of this first Caliph. | Abu Bakr | 21%
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| This man was a Chinese statesman who was the Grand Chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. | Cao Cao | 14%
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| The three Unifiers of Japan were this man, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), and Tokugawa | Oda Nobunaga | 14%
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| This man founded the Tokugawa Shogunate, which ruled Japan from1603 to 1868. | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 14%
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| This man is the second Abbasid caliph, who lived between 714 to 775 | Al-Mansur | 3%
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| The Abbasid Caliphate was victorious against the Tang Empire in this battle | Battle of Talas | 3%
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| This woman is the daughter of Islamic prophet Muhammad, whose husband was Ali | Fāṭima bint Muḥammad | 0%
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| This coalition was founded by the Indochinese Communist Party in 1941. It sought for Vietnam’s independence against the French Empire. | Việt Minh | 0%
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