Random History Trivia

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Hint	Year	Answer
Which city did 7 popes live in for 70 years?	1309-77	Avignon
Which general said he would "return again" to the Philippines, later landing on the island of Leyte?	1944	Douglas MacArthur
Who was diagnosed fully deaf at 44, but still composed music?	1814-15?	Ludwig van Beethoven
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the communists and which government, led by Chiang Kai-shek?	1927-1949-present?	Kuomintang
Which North African city was formerly an international zone?	1925-40 1945-56	Tangier
Jim Jones and followers of his cult committed a mass-suicide in the town of Jonestown in what country?	1978	Guyana
Which battle during the Napoleonic Wars ensured British naval supremacy?	1805	Battle of Trafalgar
Which country used to start with the prefix "Trans", until stripping it away at independence?	1946	Jordan
What is the name of the indigenous people that Columbus met with?	1492	Taíno
What was the name of the operation where Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union?	1941	Operation Barbarossa