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Japan Quiz

Dated c.14,000–300 BC, which is the earliest major culture of prehistoric Japan?

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Submarines Quiz

Which historical figure is said to have observed undersea life from a submersible glass sphere in 332BC?

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Toys & Games Quiz

First discovered in Iraq, and dating to the third millennium BC, the Royal Game of Ur is a precursor to which modern board game?

The Great wall by Hao Wei

China Quiz

Which legendary leader established the Xia dynasty in c.2070 BC, inaugurating dynastic rule in China?

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Remarkable Stones Quiz

The historic boundary-marker known as the London Stone, indicating the downstream limits of the City's jurisdiction, is located at which point on the Thames Estuary?

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Immigration Quiz

What name is given to the chalk ridge that once provided a land connection between England and France?

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Volcanoes Quiz

In which year did the eruption of Mount Vesuvius bury Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and mud?

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Against the Odds Quiz

At which narrow pass did a small Greek force including 300 Spartans fight a heroic rearguard action against a substantially larger Persian army in 279 BC?

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Roman Britain Quiz

Julius Caesar raided Britain in 55 and 54 BC. But which emperor began the Roman conquest in earnest in AD 43?

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Time Team Quiz

Which Anglo-Saxon king's stronghold in Athelney, Somerset, was investigated in Time Team's first ever episode?

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1942 Quiz

The arrival of which 42,900-ton German battleship in Norwegian waters posed a grave threat to Allied shipping convoys in January 1942?

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Waterloo Quiz

From which island did the exiled Napoleon escape in February 1815, setting off the chain of events which led to the Battle of Waterloo?

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English Channel Quiz

France and England were once connected by land. River crossings aside, when would it last have been possible to walk between the two?

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Kurdistan Quiz

Between which five present-day countries is the roughly defined geo-cultural territory of Kurdistan mostly now divided?

Stonehenge Quiz

Which 12th-century chronicler suggested that Stonehenge had originally been transported from Ireland to Salisbury Plain with help from the wizard Merlin?

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Palmyra Quiz

An oasis city surrounded by Syrian desert, Palmyra was an important stop on which trade route?

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Abolitionism Quiz

How many enslaved Africans are estimated to have been forcibly transported to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries?