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Today’s questions are all about seconds.
One
In what decades did the following three events featuring ‘seconds’ take place?
- Second War of Schleswig: the Treaty of Vienna is signed, resulting in Denmark ceding one province each to Prussia and Austria.
- The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey has been finished, linking Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus for a second time.
- Quebec citizens narrowly voted, 50.58% to 49.42%, to remain a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
Two
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is the second woman to hold Argentina’s presidency?
Three
How long, to the nearest year, is one billion seconds?
Four
According to a nursery rhyme’s second line, which Peter ‘had a wife but couldn’t keep her’?
Five
Arthur M. Schlesinger won his second Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Days, his book about whose US presidency?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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