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1. In 1977 Harvey Milk, a politically active gay man in San Francisco, was elected to the Board of Supervisors. He was assassinated by former City Supervisor Dan White. Complete Milk's famous prophetic slogan displayed in the San Francisco Plaza which bears his name. "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every __ __ ."
2. In the 1870s, Sophia Perovskaya participated in three assassination attempts on the Tsar - near Moscow, in Odessa, and Saint Petersburg. The third attempt was successful and killed which Tsar?
3. On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Order of the Illuminati in Bavaria. The mission of the Order was to establish a 'New World Order' by abolishing all monarchies and religions. The society was an elaborate network of spies and cells.Which world leader described Weishaupt as "an enthusiastic philanthropist."?
4. The Restoration era in England saw William Wycherley and other playwrights pen comedies that triumphantly reasserted aristocratic dominance and prestige after so many years of Puritan oppression during Oliver Cromwell's rule. Wycherley's "The Country Wife" was written in 1675, but deemed too controversial to be printed or produced between 1753 and 1924! What is the main plot device exploited in Wycherley's play?
5. In response to Elizabeth I passing the "Act of Supremacy" in 1559, re-establishing the Church of Englands independence from Rome, a papal bull was issued in 1570 by Pope Pius V. It declared "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be a heretic, released all her subjects from any allegiance to her and excommunicated any that obeyed her orders. What was the name of the bull issued on that date?
6. In the 1470s the Orkney and Shetland Islands were a province of Norway. How did they come to be owned by Scotland?
7. Dancing mania occurred in mainland Europe beginning in the 1370s. Groups of people would dance through the streets, foaming at the mouth or speaking in tongues, until they collapsed from exhaustion. What was discovered to be the cause of dancing mania centuries later?
8. Thomas Aquinas had a mystical experience while celebrating Mass on December 6, 1273. At this point, he stopped work on the piece he had been writing, saying "I cannot go on ... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me." What was Aquinas writing, which later, even though unfinished, became considered his greatest work?
9. Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170. He contested King Henry II over the rights and privileges of the Church and was assassinated by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29, 1170. Which of the following did not participate in the assassination?
10. Odo of Bayeux was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was for a time second only to the king in wealth and power in England. He was at various times Earl of Kent, a royal minister, a soldier and Regent of England. What job title would have been on Odo's business card?
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