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Trivia Questions

On September 23, 1949 President Truman announced that this country had detonated a nuclear device

In 338 B.C. this country's Philip II defeated Thebes & Athens at the Battle of Chaeronea

In 781 he persuaded Pope Adrian I to crown his sons Pepin & Louis kings of Italy & Aquitaine

"The Thousand" was a novel written by this Italian guerrilla leader based on his 1860 Sicilian expedition

In June 1987 she became the first British prime minister in the 20th c. elected to 3 straight terms

In 1982 a court struck down an Arkansas law forcing schools to teach this divine event as science

Some states have debated removing the X-shaped design of this battle flag from their own flags

After a real estate boom, one of these events struck Florida in 1926, 3 years before the "great" one

As this dictator's minister of education, Giovanni Gentile reformed Italy's school system

This New Orleans D.A. unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw as a JFK assassination conspirator