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Trivia Questions

In 1519, when Cortes entered the capital then called this, many believed he was a god

In September 1664 this governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to the British, ending Dutch power in the New World

In 1805 this territory was created from the Indiana one, with all or parts of the lower & upper peninsulas

In May 1980 at least 26 people were killed when this volcano in Washington erupted

A 1963 treaty with Mexico settled a boundary dispute between Ciudad Juarez & this Texas city

(Hi. I'm Martin Luther King III.) In 1955, my father led a bus boycott in Montgomery after this woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat

In 1957 it became the USA's first major city with a black majority

In 1989 Bertram Lee & Peter Bynoe became the first black owners of a major sports franchise, this city's NBA Nuggets

In the 1940s Core pioneered sit-ins & also used these protests whose name in show biz means "substitutes"

Some New Yorkers c. 1910 wanted the Bunny Hug & Slow Rag, types of these, banned as dangerous to morals