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Trivia Questions

Wheat was introduced to the New World by this explorer in 1493

This personal guard of Roman emperors consisted of 9 cohorts of 1,000 soldiers each

Last name of the brothers who made an overland trek in the 1260s from Bukhara, Uzbekistan to China

In 1992 Pres. Alberto Fujimori suspended this country's constitution & dissolved the legislature

On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory

In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March

This amendment was 3 states short of ratification when its deadline elapsed June 30, 1982

He was promoted to captain for burning the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor

In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state's first governor

Because of his deist beliefs, this "Age of Reason" author died a social outcast in New York City in 1809