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Question 1 of 10
Talmadge Hayer, Thomas 15X Johnson and Norman 3X Butler were convicted of murdering somebody. Who?
Question 2 of 10
If you called Minnesota liberal Eugene McCarthy by his middle name instead of his first name, you'd confuse him with what notorious right-winger from Wisconsin next door?
Question 3 of 10
In 1871, what city was burning at the same time as another fire swept through 1.2 million acres of forest around Peshtigo, Wisconsin?
Question 4 of 10
Which war did such Copperheads as Ohio Congressman Clement Laird Vallandigham oppose, even though it meant being exiled for sympathizing with the enemy?
Question 5 of 10
Nicknamed King Freddie, Sir Edward Mutesa became king of Buganda in 1939. And in 1962, he became the first president of what brand-new country?
Question 6 of 10
With whom did the Earps do battle next door to Camillus Fry's photographic studio near the OK Corral?
Question 7 of 10
The Spanish Armada kept John White from returning with supplies to what colony, which vanished in the meantime?
Question 8 of 10
As Virginia governor, Lord Dunmore offered to free any slave who fought on his side. Tens of thousands signed up, compared to 5000 blacks who fought for the other side. What war was this?
Question 9 of 10
Named for the local word for "mountainous," what was the world's first black republic?
Question 10 of 10
Whose disastrous foray in the 1999 Kargil War, which nearly led to nuclear war, somehow became the platform for his rise to power?
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