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Trivia Questions

In 1517 the Ottoman Turks took this country & put a pasha in power; today a Mubarak rules

In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg

This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered

In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland

On July 9, 1776 this state's legislature met in White Plains & ratified the Declaration of Independence

On April 4, 1949, the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, France & 8 other nations signed this mutual defense pact

8 Americans were killed April 24, 1980 in a failed attempt to rescue American hostages held in this city

After answering a NASA newspaper notice in the '70s, she became America's first woman in space

In 1919 this future pres. mobilized the Mass. Militia to restore order in the Boston police strike

Edmund Randolph's Virginia Plan was used as the basis for this important American document of 1787