Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
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What was Ethiopia known as prior to the 1600s?
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Abyssinia
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What European power briefly occupied Ethiopia in the 1930s?
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Italy
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Who was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974?
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Haile Selassie
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What was the name of the Australopithecus skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974?
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Lucy
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What killed over 1 million Ethiopians in the early 1980s?
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Famine
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Iraq
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Iraq
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What term refers to the Cradle of Civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
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Mesopotamia
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What city was supposedly home to the Hanging Gardens?
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Babylon
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What legendary sailor of the seven seas hailed from Basra?
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Sinbad
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What group raided Baghdad in 1258?
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Mongols
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What country did Iraq invade in 1990?
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Kuwait
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Argentina
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Argentina
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Which element did the Spanish name Argentina after?
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Silver
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What notorious Nazi was captured by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960?
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Adolf Eichmann
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What Argentinian fought in the Cuban Revolution and met his end in Bolivia in 1967?
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Che Guevara
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Which Argentinian first lady was nicknamed "Evita"?
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Eva Peron
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What island group did Argentina invade in 1982?
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Falkland Islands
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United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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Who is the most famous conspirator of the Gunpowder Plot?
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Guy Fawkes
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What disaster struck London in 1666?
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Great Fire of London
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What war did Great Britain fight against France between 1756 and 1763?
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Seven Years War
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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?
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Charles Dickens
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Who was Prime Minister when Britain voted to leave the EU?
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David Cameron
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France
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France
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What was the Roman name for France?
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Gaul
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Who led France during the radical phase of the French Revolution?
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Maximilien Robespierre
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On what tiny island in the Atlantic did Napoleon die?
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St. Helena
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Who wrote "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"?
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Victor Hugo
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What was France's currency before the Euro?
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Franc
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Egypt
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Egypt
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What monumental structure is thought to have been built as a tomb for the pharoah Khufu?
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The Great Pyramid
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What city in Egypt was famous in ancient times for its library?
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Alexandria
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Who had children with both Mark Antony and Julius Caesar?
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Cleopatra
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What German general's advance into Egypt was halted at El Alamein in 1942?
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Erwin Rommel
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In 2010, what series of protests spread to Egypt, forcing the president to resign?
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Arab Spring
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The phrasing of the question is asking about an animal that became domesticated during that specific time period, not one that was already domesticated prior to it. There is a significant difference between those two concepts.
I was surprised the correct answer wasn't accepted while the incorrect answer was, especially when the correct answer is far more interesting. :)
Please review and thank you for many years of enjoyment with these terrific quizzes!
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