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Trivia Questions

This last president from the Whig party rode Lincoln's funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo

At the same time Joan of Arc led the French, Itzcoatl was leading this group in Mexico

People began digging up this Italian city in 1748, only 1,669 years after it was buried

4 treaties to mitigate the horrors of war were signed in this city in August 1949

The Pope excommunicated her in 1570 after she made the Anglican church England's official religion

This cardinal helped establish the Academie Francaise in the 1630s

3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this

He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr

In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million

In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this body