Weekly Quiz for August 12-18
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What year did the 1st Model T Ford automobile roll off the production line?
- 1903
- 1908
- 1915
- 1921
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What was the 1st film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture this week in 1927?
- Wings
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Grand Hotel
- Gold Rush
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Conquistador Hernán Cortés captured the city of Tenochtitlan, the center of which empire in 1521?
- Inca
- Maya
- Zapotec
- Aztec
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What was the code-name for the secret effort by the USA to create the 1st atomic bomb?
- Operation Carpetbagger
- The Manhattan Project
- Project Paperclip
- Operation Sunrise
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True or False: King Duncan I of Scotland was killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth this week in 1040, not murdered as depicted in William Shakespeare's play
- False
- True
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Who is this famous performer from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, born this week in 1860?
- Calamity Jane
- Mabel Stark
- Annie Oakley
- Annie Jones
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Where did the Klondike gold rush begin this week in 1896?
- California
- Colorado
- South Dakota
- Alaska/Canada border
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What country was split into two parts along the 38th parallel this week in 1945?
- Ireland
- Germany
- Korea
- Vietnam
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True or false: the ratification of America's 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote, came down to a letter from 22 year-old Harry T. Burn's mother to make the deciding vote in Tennessee?
- True
- False
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When The Beatles arrived in Hamburg to perform in 1960 they had five members, but were still missing which member of their later famous four-man line-up?
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George Harrison
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Ringo Starr
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John Lennon
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Paul McCartney
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