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Which musical film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer was released this week in 1965?
- Mary Poppins
- My Fair Lady
- The Sound of Music
- Cinderella
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Whose beating by US police in 1991, caught on video, led to major rioting in that city?
- Patrick Dorismond
- Rodney King
- Eric Garner
- Michael Brown
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In which country was the worldwide pandemic the Spanish Flu 1st recorded this week in 1918?
- Spain
- United States of America
- France
- Mexico
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"We have nothing to fear but fear itself" is a quote by which American President?
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John F. Kennedy
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Abraham Lincoln
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George H. W. Bush
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Who popularized the term "Iron Curtain" in a speech in 1946?
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Winston Churchill
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Joseph Stalin
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Charles de Gaulle
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Which famous American of the Wild West died in the Battle of the Alamo in 1836?
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Geronimo
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Davy Crockett
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Jesse James
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Annie Oakley
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In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for what invention?
- Gramaphone
- Electricity
- Telephone
- Telegraph
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True or false: In 1908 the Cincinnati Mayor stood before a city council and announced "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles".
- False
- True
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What year did Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappear with 239 people on board?
- 2008
- 2011
- 2014
- 2017
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What was announced in 1861, that has since been called the most important event in 19th century Russia?
- War with Napoleon
- Emancipation of the Serfs
- Crimean War
- Trans-Siberian Railway
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