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Which Roman emperor reportedly ran through his palace crying out the name of the general who lost the Battle of Teutoburg Forest?

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The United States accidentally dropped an unarmed nuclear bomb on which American state in 1961 when a B-52 broke apart mid-flight?

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The prohibition of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933 backfired spectacularly by doing what?

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Which European power sent an entire army to Haiti in 1802 only to lose most of its soldiers to yellow fever and a slave rebellion?

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The Streisand Effect is named after Barbara Streisand, who accidentally made information more famous by doing what?

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Which military leader famously lost the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, ending his empire and resulting in exile to a remote island?

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The Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was a failed attempt by CIA-trained Cuban exiles to overthrow which leader?

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King Charles XII of Sweden marched his army all the way to Russia in 1708 only to be defeated by which combination of factors?

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The 1962 Mariner 1 spacecraft was destroyed shortly after launch because of what embarrassingly simple reason?

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Which American general was fired by President Truman in 1951 for publicly disagreeing with his Korean War strategy?

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