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1. This is a famous tower in Italy, built with flawed engineering. In which town can it be found?
2. In early 1962, the musical company, Decca Records, turned down a newly formed English band saying that they they wouldn't be marketable. What was the name of that band?
3. Who was the Roman leader who failed to pay attention to his wife's bad dream about his death?
4. The American Western Union Telegraph Company turned down which invention in 1876 because they said it would have no useful purpose?
5. Bringing about a subsequent change in his career path, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna rejected which famous world figure in 1907, and again in 1908, when he applied to join their establishment?
6. Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain known for his mistake of following an appeasement policy towards Hitler?
7. Who was the king of Spain who failed to take the weather and the tides into consideration during that country's overwhelming defeat of the Spanish Armada?
8. Sir Harold Spencer Jones, the Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom, made what remark about space travel in 1957?
9. In 1959, US Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield made which comment about space travel?
10. What did former American President Grover Cleveland say about women and the vote in 1905?
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