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Trivia Questions

Rebels took the post office in this city during their "rising" on Easter Monday, 1916

On April 1, 1945 U.S. forces landed on this largest of the Ryukyu Islands; in 1972 we gave it back to Japan

Once the center of the Hittite Empire, Bogazkoy is located in this country's Anatolia region

On September 9, 1976 this Communist chairman died

After his presidency, this West Point graduate was imprisoned for 2 years

Name for the style seen here after a king who reigned from 1643 to 1715:

Given their part-French name in the 1960s, by 1975 this Asian group controlled its country of origin

In 1904 this man's running mate was Charles W. Fairbanks

In 1709 Sweden was defeated by this Russian czar in the Battle of Poltava, losing its dominance in the Baltic area

Thousands of these Protestants were killed by pro-Catholic forces in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day