1) Who was executed in London in 1606, after trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament?  a) Oliver Cromwell b) Guy Fawkes c) Walter Raleigh 2) Who was US President during the American Civil War?  a) Abraham Lincoln b) George Washington c) Thomas Jefferson 3) In which country was the Velvet Revolution (aka The Gentle Revolution) in 1989?  a) Poland b) Hungary c) Czechoslovakia 4) Which country has the most troops (active duty military personnel)?  a) the USA b) India c) China 5) Who captured and looted Rome in 410 AD?  a) the Greeks b) the Visigoths (a Germanic tribe) c) the Vikings 6) Where was the treaty that ended World War I signed?  a) Versailles, France b) Vienna, Austria c) Paris, France 7) In which modern wars were there more civilian casualties?  a) World War I b) World War II c) they both were the same 8) In which country was President Allende overthrown in a coup in 1973? a) Chile b) Argentina c) Mexico 9) What was the final battle that marked the end of the Napoleonic Wars? a) Battle of La Rothiere b) Battle of Austerlitz c) Battle of Waterloo 10) Who participated in the Peloponnesian War? a) Spartha and Thebes b) Athens and Sparta c) Athens and Persia 11) Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, his most famous painting, to denounce the horrors of which conflict? a) Spanish Civil War b) World War II c) Mexican War of Independence 12) What was the greatest siege in history? a) the Fall of Tenochtitlan (during the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs) b) the siege of Constantinople (end of the Byzantine Empire) c) the siege of Leningrad (World War II)

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