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Trivia Questions

This dictator's last battle was his defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C.

The people were seeking guns & gunpowder when they stormed this Paris landmark July 14, 1789

On Feb. 10, 1840 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married her

The Tokugawa shogungate ruled this country from 1603 to 1867

This Venetian arrived at the Chinese court in 1275 with his father & uncle

1 of the 3 former Soviet satellites that joined NATO in 1999

Accused of accepting bribes, Francis Bacon was imprisoned in this forbidding complex in 1621

More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962

This Navy commander flew from a base at Little America to the South Pole & back Nov. 28-29, 1929

This Portuguese "Admiral of the Indian Seas" discovered & named the Amirante Islands