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The Great Wall of China was built by which Chinese ruler?
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Qin Shi Huang
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Gaozu
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Taizong
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Kublai Khan
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Qin Shi Huang was a Chinese ruler who is said to have built the Great Wall of China. As founder of the Quin dynasty, he was the first ruler of unified China.
Who is credited with having discovered the wreckage of the Titanic?
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Robert Ballard
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James Cook
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Jacques Piccard
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James Cameron
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American retired Navy officer Robert Ballard is credited with having discovered the wreckage of the Titanic in 1985. He also discovered the remains of the Battleship Bismarck in 1989.
16th century Japan saw the first foreign-born samurai. Who was he?
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Yasuke
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Takanoyama Shuntarō
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Baruto Kaito
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Yamada Narihide
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Yasuke, an African warrior, was the first foreign-born samurai. He came to Japan in 1579 and went on to become a samurai under Oda Nobunaga.
Who was the French military & political leader during the French revolution?
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Jacques Pierre Brissot
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Lazare Carnot
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Napoleon the First, also called Napoléon Bonaparte, was a French military general and statesman. He also was the first emperor of France during the years1804–1815.
Who was the first female air pilot?
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Amelia Earhart
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Bessie Coleman
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Rosa Parks
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Amelia Earhart is the most known female pilot in the history of aviation. In 1920, Earhart flew her first airplane flight in California with famed World War I pilot Frank Hawks.
Who was the first President of the USA?
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George Washington
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John Adams
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James Madison
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Abraham Lincoln
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The first President of the United States was George Washington. He was born into a Virginia planter family in 1732. Western expansion and military interest were his two intertwined interests.
Who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb?
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Howard Carter
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Thomas Jefferson
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Mark Lehner
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Stuart McKee Struever
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Howard Carter was a British archaeologist. He was also an Egyptologist and is credited with having discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
By what name was the famous pirate “Blackbeard” known in real life?
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Edward Teach
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Sir Francis Drake
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Henry Morgan
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Calico Jack
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The real-life name of the famous English pirate “Blackbeard” was Edward Teach. The design of his flag, that consisted of a skull on a black base, was as popular as him.
Name the person who is credited with having reached the South Pole first?
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Roald Amundsen
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Robert Falcon Scott
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Ernest Shackleton
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Edward Wilson
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Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911. Robert Falcon Scott, a British Royal Navy officer, reached the South Pole a month after Amundsen did.
Who invented the relativity theory?
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Albert Einstein
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Issac Newton
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Archimedes
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Galileo Galilei
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a Jewish theoretical physicist born in Germany. He is known for developing the theory of relativity and made important contributions to developing the theory of quantum mechanics.
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