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Question 1: Despite being blind, a dissident named Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest and found his way to the US Embassy in what city?
Answer a: Moscow
Answer b: Baghdad
Answer c: Beijing
Answer d: Pyongyang

Question 2: In a 1907 essay, GM Trevelyan imagined that if I had lost at Waterloo, Lord Byron would lead a failed popular uprising against the government. Who am I?
Answer a: Napoleon
Answer b: Hitler
Answer c: Genghis
Answer d: Ramses

Question 3: What or who were Bertha, Cristobel and Dolly in July 2008?
Answer a: Asteroids that passed Earth
Answer b: Military operations
Answer c: Alleged Russian spies who were arrested in the U.S.
Answer d: Hurricanes and tropical storms

Question 4: What was the name of the currency in Italy before the euro?
Answer a: Franc
Answer b: Lira
Answer c: Escudo
Answer d: Mark

Question 5: In 1984, which head of state was murdered by two of their own Sikh bodyguards?
Answer a: Pierre Trudeau
Answer b: Indira Ghandi
Answer c: Margaret Thatcher
Answer d: Ronald Reagan

Question 6: Thomas Edison has 1,093 of these?
Answer a: Congressional Medals
Answer b: Patents
Answer c: Cousins
Answer d: Books

Question 7: The largest example of what kind of disaster occurred off the coast of Italy in 2012?
Answer a: Shipwreck
Answer b: Automobile Accident
Answer c: Train Wreck
Answer d: Plane Crash

Question 8: Who fell for his patron's mistress, Josephine de Beauharnais, the Martinique-born widow of a beheaded revolutionary aristocrat?
Answer a: Mussolini
Answer b: Napoleon
Answer c: William of Orange
Answer d: Richard the Lionhearted

Question 9: Robert Mugabe was president of which country throughout the 80s?
Answer a: Canada
Answer b: Zimbabwe
Answer c: New Zealand
Answer d: Egypt

Question 10: In 2013, Magnus Carlsen became the all-time highest rated player in what board game?
Answer a: Chess
Answer b: Monopoly
Answer c: Risk
Answer d: Checkers