Weekly Quiz for September 23-29
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What year was Nintendo Koppai (later called the Nintendo Company) founded in Japan?
- 1889
- 1910
- 1947
- 1963
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True or false: In 1939 Andorra and Germany signed a treaty ending WWI, as the Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra.
- True
- False
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In 1822 French scholar Jean-François Champollion famously announced he had deciphered the Rosetta Stone, a stone stele from which ancient civilization?
- Mesopotamia
- Inca Empire
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
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Who is this who landed in England this week at Pevensey Bay in 1066?
- Viking chief Ragnar Lodbrok
- English King Alfred the Great
- Malcom II of Scotland
- William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy
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Who is this actress who won an Academy Award for her performance in the 1945 film "Mildred Pierce"?
- Bette Davis
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Joan Crawford
- Carole Lombard
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True or false: Napoleon Bonaparte graduated 42nd out of 51 in his military academy this week in 1785
- True
- False
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the then largest points fall in history during which financial crisis?
- Panic of 1873
- 1929 Wall Street Crash
- 1987 Black Monday
- 2008 Global Financial Crisis
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Who led the Seige of Yorktown by American and French troops which began this week in 1781?
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Charles Cornwallis
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George Washington
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Benjamin Lincoln
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Alexander Hamilton
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Who is this famous American writer born this week in 1896?
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Steinbeck
- William Faulkner
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Great Britain annexed the African Ashanti Kingdom in 1901 and incorporated it into the Gold Coast. What is the Gold Coast known as today?
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Cameroon
- Sudan
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