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Sample Questions

Match DayQuestionAnswerTotal%A%B%C%Def
LL42 MD15On May 21, 1998, B.J. Habibie became president of what country, only the third since its declaration of independence in 1945?INDONESIA17421761.8
LL41 MD2The African nation of Tanzania was formed in 1964 from the unification of what two states?TANGANYIKA, ZANZIBAR356538111.7
LL40 MD23Control over a port and city once known as Port Arthur was the primary factor in a 20th c. war between what two empires?RUSSIA, JAPAN325531131.8
LL40 MD14The area in the Middle East known as Golan Heights is controlled by Israel, and has been since the Six-Day War of 1967, before which it was a territory of what country?SYRIA577065421.2
LL40 MD6This is the name for the female personification of the nation of Switzerland and "mother of the Swiss nation," her name taken from the ancient Roman name for a region which corresponds roughly to the western part of modern Switzerland.HELVETIA285526122.2
LL39 MD8The only ruler of France to have been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church had what name?LOUIS415244231.6
LL38 MD18This Oriental Orthodox Christian church, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when it separated from Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches (which themselves had not yet split), is the largest Christian church in Egypt.COPTIC487755172.1
LL37 MD3From 1371 until 1707, the Kingdom of Scotland was ruled by what royal family?HOUSE OF STUART415446221.6
LL35 MD19Whom did Anwar Al Sadat succeed as President of Egypt in October of 1970?GAMAL ABDEL NASSER569052361.8
LL35 MD6Name the Vietnamese revolutionary and diplomat who engaged with U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in secret talks that led to the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973, and to both men being awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize (which only Kissinger accepted).LE DUC THO15311272.2