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3-Letter History

Can you guess these historical answers which are only three letters long?
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State security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 to 1991 (inits.)
KGB
OPEC accounts for roughly 38 percent of global production of this substance
Oil
Former name of Tokyo
Edo
___ Quayle, Vice-President under George H.W. Bush
Dan
Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was often depicted as this animal
Owl
Rear-facing section of a ship
Aft
___ Zedong, first leader of Communist China
Mao
Sutton ___, famous Anglo-Saxon burial ground
Hoo
Robert E. ___, commander of the Confederate Forces during the U.S. Civil War
Lee
American technology giant nicknamed "Big Blue" (inits.)
IBM
Charles James ___, Leader of His Majesty's Opposition under Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger
Fox
Elite military unit founded by David Stirling in 1941 (inits.)
SAS
Dwight D. Eisenhower's nickname
Ike
Giant bird hunted to extinction by the Maori
Moa
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Rob ___ MacGregor, Scottish Jacobite outlaw
Roy
Law enforcement agency once headed by J. Edgar Hoover (inits.)
FBI
Pious Biblical figure whose faith was tested by Satan on God's behalf
Job
Theresa ___, British Prime Minister from 2016 to 2019
May
Uncle ___'s Cabin, abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tom
Animal which appears on Australia's coat of arms
Emu
___ Perón, Argentina's First Lady from 1946 to 1952
Eva
Both Vincent Van Gogh and Evander Holyfield lost a portion of this body part
Ear
Jean-Bedél Bokassa's country (inits.)
CAR
First imperial dynasty of China
Qin
___ Amin, notorious Ugandan dictator
Idi
Hallucinogen first synthesised by Albert Hofmann in 1938
LSD
David ___-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel
Ben
News broadcaster founded by Ted Turner (inits.)
CNN
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Level 68
Mar 7, 2026
I don’t remember Job being a prophet. When did he prophesy?