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Who is this archaeologist who discovered and opened the tomb of Tutankhamun?
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Flinders Petrie
- Howard Carter
- Hiram Bingham
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What film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was released in 1942?
- The Maltese Falcon
- Casablanca
- The Big Sleep
- Notorious
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What was the 1st commercially successful video game launched this week in 1972?
- Mario Brothers
- Space Invaders
- Pong
- Pac-Man
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True or false: In 1954 a woman in Alabama became the 1st person to be hit by a meteor and survive.
- True
- False
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When Hugh Hefner launched Playboy magazine in 1953 which actress was its 1st centerfold?
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Betty Grable
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Brigitte Bardot
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Doris Day
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Marilyn Monroe
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What did activist Rosa Parks do in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955?
- Refuse to move to the back of the bus
- Led a march
- Managed to vote despite opposition
- Insisted on being served at a whites only shop
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What was name of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment published in 1935?
- Schrödinger's hat
- Schrödinger's rat
- Schrödinger's cat
- Schrödinger's bat
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Which English king, who came to the throne in 1016, supposedly tried to command an incoming tide?
- Alfred the Great
- Edward the Confessor
- King Cnut / Canute
- William the Conqueror
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What was Mark Twain's real name?
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Clemens
- William Carlyle
- Albert Speer
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Idina Menzel sings the role of which character in the animated film Frozen, released this week in 2013?
- Queen Elsa
- Princess Anna
- Olaf the snowman
- All of them
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