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1. Who defeated King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
2. In which Australian city did MacArthur base his Pacific operations during World War II?
3. Which country entered World War I on the side of the Entente in 1915, suffered very heavy losses indeed and gained very little territory from the peace treaties?
4. In Norse mythology, which term describes the pre-ordained doom of the gods?
5. What was the name of the settlement which was defended by the British forces as depicted in the film 'Zulu'?
6. What name did Field Marshal Blücher use as the name for the Battle of Waterloo, reflecting the name of the farm where he and the Duke of Wellington met after the battle?
7. In heraldry, what color is referred to as 'Gules'?
8. Who was quoted as saying 'In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers'?
9. Which Spanish town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War by Germany's Condor Legion, shares its name with a painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the event?
10. Who wrote 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in France in 1791?
11. Members of which religious cult were initially blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Sydney Hilton during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in February 1978, killing a garbage collector and a policeman?
12. Which famous document opens with the sentence: 'A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism'?
13. Which forest held the remains of Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II and the majority of his family who had been murdered by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War of 1918-21?
14. What was the nickname of Australian poet A.B. Patterson?
15. The Navy of which country was responsible for the initial retrieval of three Enigma machine rotors from a sinking U-boat in 1940, allowing for the succesful decryption of the main Enigma keys by that country's cryptographers?
16. Which World War II leader was quoted as saying in 1943 'The Pope! How many divisions has he got'?
17. Which war saw the birth of the balaclava as a form of head wear?
18. What is the English translation of "Lebensraum"?
19. What name was taken by a political group from the controversial document which was presented to the Czechoslovak Government in 1977, leading to the arrest of the three individuals who presented it?
20. What Japanese city was hit by the atomic bomb first?
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