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1 Who was sworn in as US President following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
A Andrew Johnson, becoming the 17th US President, serving from April 15, 1865, to March 4, 1869.
2 Who in the 5th century CE was known as “The Scourge of God” due to his devastating military campaigns?
A Attila the Hun. He led the Huns, a nomadic people, and history remembers his reign for the fear and terror he instilled in the Roman Empire and other nations.
3 The Ottoman Empire’s forces were repelled from which central European city in 1683?
A Vienna, (July 17–September 12, 1683). The Ottomans launched an expedition against the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, but a combined force led by John III Sobieski of Poland defeated them. Lifting the siege marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in Eastern Europe.
4 How many red and white petals are on a Tudor Rose?
A Five. To celebrate this union, Henry VII combined the white rose of the Yorkists and the red rose of the Lancastrians to create the Tudor Rose.
5 In which 19th-century Crimean War battle did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place?
A Battle of Balaclava, a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of British, French, Ottoman, and Sardinian troops.
6 In what year was the St. Valentine’s Day massacre?
A 1929. Gunmen murdered seven men at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighbourhood of Chicago’s North Side. Four men shot them using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns.
7 In which battle of 1917 saw the first large-scale, coordinated use of tanks in a single battle?
A The Battle of Cambrai, a British offensive (November–December 1917) on the Western Front during World War I
8 Which geological period occurred between Triassic and Cretaceous?
A Jurassic period, in the Mesozoic Era. The ancestors of major plant and animal groups that exist today first appeared during the Mesozoic, though people best know this era as the time of the dinosaurs.
9 Which U.S. President became the second to fall to an assassin’s bullet in 1881?
A James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, on July 2, 1881
10 The Vasa dynasty ruled which European country in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
A Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. A grandson of Gustav Vasa, Sigismund III Vasa, later became King of Poland in 1587