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Trivia Questions

This volunteer cavalry unit organized by Teddy Roosevelt included miners, cowboys & college athletes

The Yi dynasty ruled this country from 1392 until its annexation by Japan in 1910

Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians

He related the story of Pocahontas in his "General History of Virginia" in 1624

The Battle of Palo Alto, fought May 8, 1846, was the first battle of this war

Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches

In May of 1780, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln was forced to surrender this South Carolina port to the British

More than 200 U.S. Marines were killed in 1983 by a truck bomb at their barracks in this Mideast capital

In 1953, this island's first year as a U.S. commonwealth, 75,000 residents moved to the mainland

In 1903 this "Badger State" became the first to adopt direct primary elections