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What was the Schmalkaldic League, formed during the mid-16th century?

posted Jun 17, 2022 by Ritika

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Which island was sold by Genoa to France in 1764, was ruled by Britain for two years from 1794 to 1796............

posted Jun 17, 2022 by Varun Kumar

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By what name was the Castle of St Antoine that was built in Paris in 1369 as a fortress better known?

posted Jun 16, 2022 by Rahul Chandel

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Who defected from Russia to the West at a Paris airport on 17 June 1961?

posted Jun 16, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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Which was the first Olympic Games in which athletes from Kosovo were able to compete under flag of their own country?

posted Jun 15, 2022 by Ujjwal Mehra

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The sinking, approximately 200 miles off Hampton Roads, Virginia, of which steamship on 12 November 1928.........

posted Jun 10, 2022 by Kuldeep Apte

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The British conquest of which country began in 1824 in response to its attempt to invade India, and from 1886...........

posted Jun 10, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Which year was called the Year of the Five Emperors?

posted Jun 7, 2022 by Dilbagh

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Between 1783 and 1865, Englishmen William Wilberforce, Sir Cecil Wray and Dr Beilby Porteus, Africans................

posted Jun 4, 2022 by Deepak Chitragar

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The Battle of the Tiger's Mouth in 1809-10 was fought between which two forces?

posted Jun 3, 2022 by Riteshwar

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What name was given to a trooper in the Parliamentarian cavalry formed by Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War?

posted Jun 2, 2022 by Vikram Luthra

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Which languages have been spoken, for at least 6,000 years, by the peoples of an island forcibly colonised...........

posted Jun 1, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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One couple won the World Figure Skating Championships for Ice Dancing for four successive years 1981-1984.........

posted May 31, 2022 by Nikhil Pandey

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How did Charles II, after he accepted the English crown in 1660, mark his opinion of Oliver Cromwell and other..........

posted May 31, 2022 by Sandeep Bedi

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The Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 was decisive in which conflict?

posted May 31, 2022 by Pankaj Deshmukh

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Which British boxer lost the WBA world lightweight title in 1972?

posted May 25, 2022 by Puneet Batra

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To what office in the USA was Henry Kissinger appointed in 1973?

posted May 25, 2022 by Amarvansh

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Clara Petacci was the mistress of whom?

posted May 25, 2022 by Madhavi Latha

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Of the five events contested in the first World Shooting Championship in 1897, which country won most medals?

posted May 24, 2022 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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Charlie Chaplin started filming this satire on fascism in September 1939 and released it in 1940. Which film was it?

posted May 23, 2022 by Kuldeep Apte

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How many wheels were there on each hansom cab, the horse-drawn taxis that used to operate in London in Victorian times?

posted May 23, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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Who was the first person to win "The Big Four" Grammy Awards (Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the........

posted May 20, 2022 by Aarati Mahajan

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Why did the MS Achille Lauro become internationally well-known in 1985?

posted May 20, 2022 by Simranjeet Singh

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Which major record label was created in 1901, using the name of an 1898 painting of his friend's pet by Francis Barraud?

posted May 19, 2022 by Maninder Bath

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At the 1976 Summer Olympics, who was the only female competitor not to have a sex test?

posted May 19, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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In 2004, Barbie dumped Ken for an Australian. What was his name?

posted May 18, 2022 by Swati Arora

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What arcade game, based on the concept of eating, was developed primarily by Tōru Iwatani over the course...............

posted May 18, 2022 by Mridul

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In the first Olympic Games in which Arts were part of the programme there were five categories; how many medals.........

posted May 17, 2022 by Vishal

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As the 1984 Summer Olympic Games began, Welsh pop star Howard Jones released which single?

posted May 17, 2022 by Mohammad

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Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, the official mistress of Louis XV of France from 1745 to 1750, lent her titled name..........

posted May 16, 2022 by Anshika Utadi

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What was the aim of the 1984 Mexico Declaration by the National Olympic Committees?

posted May 16, 2022 by Basabdatta Mukherjee

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Who is acknowledged as the founder of Singapore as a trading post and European settlement in 1819?

posted May 15, 2022 by Kapil Kapoor

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The discovery was announced in 2014 of what proved to be nearly 40,000 years old what, in caves in Sulawesi, Indonesia?

posted May 14, 2022 by Akriti

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It started as a play in Germany in 1897 by Oscar Blumenthal and actor Gustav Kadelburg, was recreated...................

posted May 14, 2022 by Anamika

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Between 1901 and 1909, Karl Landsteiner, Jan Janský and William Moss worked on the classification of what?

posted May 13, 2022 by Ritika

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In 1980, Israeli legislation prohibited what activity in Palestinian art?

posted May 13, 2022 by Prithvi

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In which Olympics did the International Olympic Committee (IOC) accept Arts into its programme for competition?

posted May 13, 2022 by Harshita Dhaliwal

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In 1346, Edward III and his son the Black Prince were repeatedly attacked by French forces in which forest?

posted May 12, 2022 by Ankur Athari

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Who was the last monarch in the recent reunified kingdom of Italy?

posted May 12, 2022 by Varuna Magar

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In 1903, Maurice Garin was the first winner of which event?

posted May 10, 2022 by Manish Tiwari

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In 1657, who turned down the opportunity to become King of England?

posted May 9, 2022 by Brijesh Talwar

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When was the eastern part of Australia claimed by Great Britain?

posted May 8, 2022 by Karan Joglekar

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The catastrophic disaster at a plant in Chernobyl in the Ukraine in April 1986 is described as what kind of accident?

posted May 7, 2022 by Aastha Joshi

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What sport, when it was first played in 1902, was called immoral and "a monster that spreads its claws to all sides"?

posted May 6, 2022 by Aarati Mahajan

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On 10 and 11 June 1964, what was at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA?

posted May 6, 2022 by Simranjeet Singh

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What name was given to a series of violent events on 21 May 1979 in San Francisco, USA, sparked by the lenient..........

posted May 5, 2022 by Maninder Bath

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At the 2009 Freediving Individual World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and in the Bahamas, competitors...............

posted May 5, 2022 by Yogeshwar Thakur

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In what is often called boxing's biggest upset ever, Buster Douglas beat whom in the world unified Heavyweight.........

posted May 4, 2022 by Swati Arora

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By what name is William Thomson better known?

posted May 4, 2022 by Aman

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Who was tried for treason on 17 November 1603 for trying to remove James I from the Engish throne?

posted May 4, 2022 by Mridul