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What structure designed by Joseph Paxton was built in 1851 at a cost of £2 million, and only lasted 85 years ?


Edward Teach was born in 1680, he terrorised the high seas around the West Indies with his captured ship The Queen Annes Revenge, Who was he better known as ?


Which wife out lived Henry the 8th ?


After 1928 women over what age were given the vote in the UK ?


On 24th April 1967, Vladimir Komarov became the first human to do what on a space mission ?


Legend has it Captain William Kidd's treasure is buried on which Nova Scotia island ?


William Henry McCarty was also known as William Antrim, but by which other two names did he go by (half point for each) ?


In what harbour was the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior sank by French foreign intelligence services in 1985 ?


Name the General, and President of Argentina, who led the junta in the 1982 seizure of the Falkland Islands ?


Which historical figure had the middle names John Huffham ?

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Crystal Palace.


Blackbeard.


Catherine Parr.


21 (twenty one).


Die.


Oak Island.


William H. Bonney & Billy the Kid.


Auckland (New Zealand).


Leopoldo Galtieri.


Charles Dickens.

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