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Big History Quiz

Do you consider yourself a master historian? Then this is the quiz for you! From the Industrial Revolution to the founding of NATO and the UN, you’ll face challenging and fun questions about countries from all over the world. It’s time to show what you’ve got!

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Hoover Dam was made with massive amounts of concrete (enough to build 3000 miles of road). In order to cool this concrete, a supersized fridge was invented. This machine dispensed up to a thousand tons of ice every day! The incredible refrigeration machine helped take off decades from the project’s timeline.

Fictional icon James Bond was named after an ornithologist with the same name. Author Ian Fleming took the name from a birdwatching book because he wanted the dangerous superspy to have a name that was “as mundane as possible.”

In its original form, the popular board game Scrabble was simply a bunch of tiles — there was no board in sight! It was also first called “Lexico,” but was later changed to the far more catchy name we now know.

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