This is Run Island in Indonesia.
In 1667 it was swapped for what other (and much more well known) island?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 2 March 2016
Which of the following figures did NOT have a tattoo?
John Wilkes Booth
Tsar Nicholas II
Teddy Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Paul Keating
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Interesting Question of the Day – 29 Feb 2016
In what decade did WWI end?
Of course the conventional answer is the 1910s, but we deal in Interesting Questions, so we want to know the decade when the last treaty was signed between two belligerent countries.
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Interesting Question of the Day – 22 Feb 2016
This scene is from the longest war in human history as far as we can determine.
It FORMALLY ended in 1985, when a peace treaty was signed between the mayors of which two cities? Also, to the nearest 1,000 years, how long did the war last?
Interesting Question of the Day – 10 February 2016
The iconic Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan was filmed in what European country?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 8 Feb 2016
This watch has been stopped since 8:15am on 6 August 1945. It belonged to Kengo Nikawa.
What city did he live in?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 5 February 2016
Taking part in occasional battles during the Crusades, the Order of St Lazarus was associated with knights suffering from what disease?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 18 January 2016
What form of transport did women’s right crusader Susan B Anthony credit with doing more than anything for the emancipation of women?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 11 January 2016
In 1943, 40,000 American and Canadian soldiers invaded Kiska Island in Alaska, which the Japanese had taken earlier in the war. They suffered over 300 casualties.
How many Japanese soldiers were killed in the operation?
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Interesting Question of the Day – 7 January 2016
Reader is a surname based on a medieval occupation.
What did readers do? (Hint: It wasn’t reading. Most readers were illiterate. Another hint: The above picture was chosen for a reason.)
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