EU | MCQs

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• You would have to go to Austria if you want to visit the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, Braunau am Inn.
• Braunau am Inn is a town in Upper Austria on the border with Germany, and it is known for being the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.

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 Ketton's translation remained the standard Latin translation for four centuries.

It appeared in print for the first time in 1542/43 as the first printed Latin translation of the Qur'an.

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Sir Thomas Roe was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

He sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1644.

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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India

Through the Atlantic Ocean at Calicut India.

the Portuguese build their first fortress in Cochin.

Francisco de Almeida was appointed as the first Portuguese governor in India.

They were followed by the Dutch when they tried to enter the Indian market in the middle of the 16th century.

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European gives vowel sound.

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French Guiana is located on the north Atlantic coast of South America.

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The Battle of Waterloo was fought in 1815.

The Duke of Wellington won the Battle of Waterloo.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo 

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The United Nations lists 44 countries in Europe

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Schengen Area signifies a zone where 29 European countries, abolished their internal borders, for the free and unrestricted movement of people, in harmony with common rules for controlling external borders and fighting criminality by strengthening the common judicial system and police cooperation.

The 29 Schengen countries are Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania

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Belgium is known as the cockpit of Europe

because it has the headquarters of the European Union

because it is where the largest number of European battles have taken place in history.