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Trivia Questions

This Russian czar spent the last few years of his life composing a list of people he had murdered

In 1513 this Spaniard made the first recorded European exploration of what is now the U.S. mainland

In 1740 he became king of Prussia & elector of Brandenburg

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

In 1599 Richard & Cuthbert Burbage built this famous theatre

In the 16th century Peru was called New Castile & Mexico was called this