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The Civil Rights Act was signed into law by which US president?
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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John F. Kennedy
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Gerald Ford
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True or False: In 2017 followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Maharaj won a court case, 3 years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life?
- True
- False
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Which was the largest-ever battle fought on the American continent?
- Battles of Saratoga (American Revolutionary War)
- Battle of Gettsburg (US Civil War)
- Battle of Vicksburg (US Civil War)
- Battle of the Little Bighorn (Great Sioux War)
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What in 1996 did the UK House of Commons vote to return to Scotland after 700 years?
- St. Margaret’s shoulder bone
- The remains of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- The Stone of Scone
- Galloway Viking Hoard
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True or false: Two former American Presidents died on the same day, July 4, 1826
- False
- True
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Who is this famous American athlete, born this week in 1961?
- Carl Lewis
- Ben Johnson
- Michael Johnson
- Usain Bolt
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In 1348 as the Black Death swept across Europe Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull to say who was not to blame?
- Turks
- Lepers
- Jews
- Rats
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Which writer had an obscenity ban for their novel "Naked Lunch" overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1966?
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Allen Ginsberg
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William S. Burroughs
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D. H. Lawrence
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Jack Kerouac
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What was the name of the Spanish slave ship on board which a slave revolt began in 1839?
- Clotilda
- Antelope
- La Amistad
- Guerrero
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Who published their work Principia, outlining laws of motion and universal gravitation, in 1687?
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Christopher Wren
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Robert Hooke
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Edmond Halley
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Isaac Newton
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