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Trivia Questions

This monarch on whom the Magna Carta was forced has been called "the worst king ever to rule England"

He was 65 when he began his term as prime minister May 10, 1940

Laws of 1911 & 1949 left this upper house of Parliament with only delaying powers

World condemnation made the 1956 British-French occupation of this canal a disaster

8th C. King Offa built a 170-mile north-south dike that still partly marks the border of England & this country

By the end of his reign in 1786, Frederick the Great doubled this kingdom's area

A potato famine during the 1840s caused this island's population to decline by about 2 million

Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztecs & Francisco Pizarro conquered this Indian empire

The Treaty of Versailles ended this war & set up the League of Nations

In 1977 this Ugandan leader survived at least one assassination attempt & 2 attempted coups