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Question 1 of 15

What name was given to the embroidered box-like contraption at the front of men's breeches in the early sixteenth century?

Question 2 of 15

Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas all (briefly) declared independence from what country, becoming the Republic of the Rio Grande?

Question 3 of 15

What nationality was the communist leader Mao Zedong?

Question 4 of 15

What country suffered a 10 year Soviet occupation?

Question 5 of 15

Who was the group of about fifty heroes, led by Jason, who gave birth to one of the most fascinating stories of the mythological Greek history?

Question 6 of 15

What was the name of the woman that the German theologian Martin Luther married in 1525?

Question 7 of 15

What did "Live Aid" raise money for?

Question 8 of 15

Complete the baby's name, Prince George of?

Question 9 of 15

In the early 1800s, who set up the Continental System to starve British shipping of European commerce?

Question 10 of 15

What year saw Adolph Hitler committing suicide?

Question 11 of 15

Among the pictorial images found in the tombs, a fish is often used, the tilapia. What is its symbolic value?

Question 12 of 15

What country's emir unwisely taunted Saddam Hussein by vowing to turn every woman in Iraq into a $10 prostitute?

Question 13 of 15

In what year of the Second World War was the Auschwitz Concentration Camp liberated?

Question 14 of 15

What was one of the nicknames of the USA's 369th Infantry Regiment?

Question 15 of 15

What 444-day crisis was resolved by the Algiers Accords?

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