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1. How many prisoners were actually being held in the Bastille when it was stormed in 1789?
2. Which Enlightenment philosopher's ideas on 'natural rights' most heavily influenced the drafting of the Declaration of Independence?
3. Who was the primary leader of the Haitian Revolution and a former slave himself?
4. What was the name of the U.S. project that developed the first atomic bombs?
5. How many permanent members with veto power are on the United Nations Security Council?
6. In which lunar region did the Apollo 11 Lunar Module 'Eagle' land?
7. What was the official name given to the Berlin Wall by the East German government?
8. Which international organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020?
9. Which scientist's X-ray diffraction images (specifically Photo 51) were critical for discovering the DNA double helix?
10. At which location did the Wright brothers perform their historic first flight in 1903?
11. What did the Bastille prison primarily symbolize to the people of Paris in 1789?
12. Which dynasty is responsible for the majority of the stone and brick Great Wall that exists today?
13. What was the name of the 'floating gardens' or artificial islands used by the Aztecs for agriculture?
14. What was the unintended social consequence of the invention of the cotton gin in the American South?
15. How did the spinning jenny change the productivity of a single textile worker?
16. What is the name of the only confirmed Viking archaeological site in North America?
17. The Vikings who traveled east through modern-day Russia and Ukraine were known by what name?
18. Which part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft actually landed on the lunar surface?
19. Who was the primary leader of the Haitian Revolution before being captured by French forces in 1802?
20. What type of organism did Alexander Fleming discover was capable of killing bacteria in 1928?

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