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The name for the holiday that commemorates the invasion that occurred on June 6th, 1944.
What is D-Day?
The name of the famous boy Pharoah, whose tomb was found in 1922.
The name of the oldest marathon in the world
What is the Boston Marathon?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
The one-word question every historian must ask.
Why?
Who is Arch-Duke Frans Ferdinand?
A South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The city where witch trials took place in the 1690s.
What is Salem?
The number of countries in the United Kingdom.
What is four?
Creating quite an economic boom, the power ____ boosted the Industrial Revolution.
What is the power loom?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria formed this alliance in World War One.
What are the Central Powers?
This ruler is projected to be the wealthiest man who ever lived.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The battle where the shot heard round the world took place.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
The name of the 2nd tallest mountain in the world.
What is K2?
An American woman who risked her life to lead others to freedom during the 1800s, serving as a conductor of sorts.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The name of the Allied response to the Berlin Blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The name of the newest country in Africa.
What is South Sudan?
The political organization that committed the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The ocean that the Bermuda Triangle is located in.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This French king was the absolute example of an absolute monarch.
Who is Louis XIV?
The inter-governmental organization was formed after World War One.
What is the League of Nations?
The modern-day country where the ruins of Carthage lie.
What is Tunisia?
This dictionary company was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1831.
What is Merriam-Webster?
The largest desert in the world
What is Antarctica?
This English queen ensured that Britain would be Protestant and stood up to an attempted Spanish invasion.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?