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Trivia Questions

In 1927 this aviator became the first person to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross

In 1909 the Lincoln penny replaced this one, which had been in circulation for 50 years

In 1770 Robert Treat Paine prosecuted the British troops indicted for murder in this incident

In 1776 Sgt. Ezra Lee led the first known attack in one of these submersible crafts

This territory, known for its coal mines, voted to become part of Germany in 1935

On Sept. 9, 1087, this English king died at Rouyn in Normandy after falling from his horse

As a child, Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus was nicknamed this, meaning "little boot"

The first 18 years of this French king's reign were managed by Cardinal Mazarin

In 1524 this Florentine navigator became the first European to visit the New York area

In the 1970s, as many as 18,000 troops from this Caribbean country fought in Angola's civil war