Weekly Quiz for November 4 -10
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Who is this archaeologist, who discovered the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922?
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Howard Carter
- Flinders Petrie
- Hiram Bingham
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Who did Barack Obama defeat to be elected President of the United States in 2008?
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George W. Bush
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Dick Cheney
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Mitt Romney
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John McCain
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Which Beatle said at a Royal Variety performance in 1963 "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…"?
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Paul McCartney
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Ringo Starr
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John Lennon
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George Harrison
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Which world leader declared the United States The Great Satan in 1979?
- Ayatollah Khomeini (Iran)
- Leonid Brezhnev (USSR)
- Fidel Castro (Cuba)
- Kim Il-sung (North Korea)
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Who is this famous basketball player who announced he had HIV this week in 1991?
- Michael Jordan
- Magic Johnson
- Larry Bird
- Hakeem Olajuwon
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Which explorer said the immortal words "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" in Central Africa this week in 1871?
- Mungo Park
- Meriwether Lewis
- Richard Burton
- Henry Morton Stanley
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Who did Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés meet at Tenochtitlan for the first time in 1519?
- Atahualpa
- Moctezuma II
- Kan Ek
- Hunac Ceel
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The Russian October Revolution of 1917 was led by which socialist political party?
- Mensheviks
- Bolsheviks
- Việt Minh
- Khmer Rouge
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What was the name of the infamous ship found drifting in 1872 in the Atlantic, its crew mysteriously vanished?
- Mary Rose
- Ellen Austin
- Mary Celeste
- Sarah Jane
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True or false: Walt Disney served as an FBI informer reporting on Hollywood subversives.
- True
- False
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