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Bluetooth from a Viking king, a lost film from Japan: how well did you follow this week's history news?

A lost American silent film surfaces in Japan, a Danish Viking king lends his name to your phone, and an 8,000-year-old face emerges from China — test how closely you followed this week's history discoveries!

  1. A Japanese antique shop recently turned up an American silent film thought lost forever. In what year was the original film shot?
  2. Which Viking ruler is the Bluetooth wireless technology named after?
  3. How many Jewish children did the orphanage in Moissac, southern France, save during the Holocaust? The site was recently granted heritage protection.
  4. What did new research conclude about Nazi Germany's atomic program?
  5. What did the study of roughly 13,000-year-old North American spearheads reveal about Ice Age hunters?
  6. Where was a Neolithic man's 3D facial reconstruction unveiled, and how old were the remains it was based on?
  7. What did researchers use samples from Vesuvius's 79 AD eruption for?
  8. What finds point to a medieval Anglo-Saxon quarter near the Vatican?