The Singha Durbar, or Lion Palace, is the official seat of government in this city. Name this Asian capital city that was devastated by an April 2015 earthquake.

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Kathmandu is the capital of this nation.

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In 1950, two of its residents tried to shoot Harry Truman at Blair House. The 1898 Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. control of the Philippines, Guam, and what Caribbean island?

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This phrase was first used in 1907 following Harry Kendall Thaw's murder of architect Stanford White. Give this four-word phrase often used to describe a court case perceived to have great historical significance.

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The phrase "trial of the century" was used during the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered the son of this American aviator.

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What Ojibwe term describes a sacred item or spirit being that is an individual, family or tribe's emblem, and is sometimes depicted in North America on "poles"?

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What man gave the "Checkers" speech and was the first U.S. president to visit communist China?

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What man, who said "what an artist dies with me" as he expired at the start of the Year of the Four Emperors, allegedly fiddled in AD 64 as Rome burned?

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What Russian Commissar for Foreign Affairs negotiated the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, then was murdered in exile in Mexico after breaking with Stalin?

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What term coined by Teddy Roosevelt refers to people like the author of The History of the Standard Oil Company, Ida Tarbell, who exposed corruption?

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What Pacific archipelago, the site of Baltra and Isabela islands, is owned by Ecuador and was named for giant tortoises seen by Charles Darwin?

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This man stated that he had secured "peace for our time." Name this man who ceded the Sudetenland [zoo-DAY-ten-LANT] region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany by signing the Munich Agreement.

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At the beginning of World War II, Chamberlain was prime minister of this country. He was succeeded by Winston Churchill.

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This decision concerned a demand for a writ of mandamus made by some "midnight judges." The Judiciary Act of 1789 was ruled unconstitutional by what 1803 case that established judicial review?

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This South American nation's Paraguana Peninsula is sometimes considered to be part of the Leeward Antilles.

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Claims to New France were based on the exploration of this Frenchman, who gave Canada its name and first explored what are now the cities of Quebec and Montreal.

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Cartier's [kar-tee-yay's] Explorations occurred along this river, which drains the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and is the namesake of a commercial "Seaway".

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What man was chief counsel for the NAACP in the Brown versus Board of Education case?

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What French king initiated the War of Devolution in 1667?

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