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1 What was the average age of US soldiers in the Vietnam War?
A 22. Notably, popular culture frequently cites 19 as the typical age for Vietnam draftees. However, this figure fails to represent the true average age of the personnel who served. In reality, official records confirm that the average age of casualties, including those killed in action (KIA), reached 23.
2 Which country was ruled by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge until his overthrow in 1979?
A Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)/Cambodia. Pol Pot was born Saloth Sâr and ruled the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until his overthrow in 1979.
3 What was the first official currency of the United States of America?
A Dollar. The new Congress’s Coinage Act of 1792 established the United States dollar 1000 as the country’s standard unit of money.
4 Which country was the first to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
A New Zealand. In 1893. While some other places had granted suffrage to certain groups of women earlier, New Zealand was the first to extend the right to all women.
5 Which Soviet leader ultimately backed down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?
A Nikita Khrushchev. He agreed to remove the Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.
6 In which incident were 146 British prisoners forced into a small, airless room by the Indian troops?
A The Black Hole of Calcutta. The incident occurred during the siege of Fort William in 1756.
7 What did the United States detonate in 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean?
A The world’s first hydrogen bomb, code-named “Ivy Mike”, as part of Operation Ivy.
8 Launched in 1960, what was HMS Dreadnought?
A The United Kingdom’s first nuclear-powered submarine. She entered service with the Royal Navy in 1963 and was the seventh Royal Navy ship to bear that name.
9 In what year did the wearing of front seatbelts become compulsory in the UK?
A January 31, 1983. The government extended the law to include rear-seat passengers in 1991.
10 The call-sign of the Apollo 11 landing module was Eagle. What was the call-sign of the orbiting command module?
A Columbia. Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to 24, 1969.