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1. It's not a joke! Singapore became a British colony and Nunavut became a Canadian territory in different years, but on what day?
2. Grigory Potemkin was advisor and lover to which ruler?
3. Which person served as governor of both Texas and Tennessee and had one of the United States' largest cities named in his honor?
4. In 1967, 100,000 people gathered in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco. The counterculture movement of hippies, drugs, music and sexual freedom came to the forefront of American news. What name was given to this time?
5. Opened in 1848 in New York City, and measuring the length of a city block and five stories tall, what business was the first of its kind in the USA?
6. Which event inspired a telegram that began "At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley..."?
7. One of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act (1876) a line to indicate the level when a ship was fully laden. This safety measure was named after the man who championed the Act and is called which of the following?
8. Which English settlement in what is now the U. S. was founded before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock?
9. The Anschluss is a term that is generally used to describe the 1938 occupation and annexation of what European country by Nazi Germany?
10. In what year did Australia officially become an independent nation?
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