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Trivia Questions

This monument with a 19-foot seated statue was dedicated by President Harding May 30, 1922

The Supreme Court's 7-2 decision in this slavery case helped bring on the Civil War

Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932

Born in 12 A.D., this cruel & unbalanced Roman emperor was a great-grandson of Mark Antony

The first of this Mongol conqueror's many wives was Borte, to whom he was betrothed as a child

This country's King Louis IV was nicknamed "Louis from Overseas" because he was raised in England

The Portuguese captured Muscat, now the capital of this sultanate, c. 1508 but were driven out in 1650

William Laud, an archbishop of this who opposed the Puritans, was beheaded on Tower Hill in 1645

The Osmanli Empire became known as this in English

This envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury was held hostage in Lebanon for over 4 years before his 1991 release