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Did you take the Quiztory last week? Now it’s time to check your answers:

1. How much money did the Marshall Plan provide in aid to Europe? More than $13 billion

2. Who was Martin Luther King Jr. speaking with when he was fatally shot? Jesse Jackson

3. What disease did Anne Sullivan suffer from as a child? Trachoma

4. Which U.S. president continued production of the neutron bomb after President Jimmy Carter temporarily halted production? Ronald Reagan

5. How long did the “Mercury Seven” serve in Project Mercury? 5 years

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. Who did Gov. Dick Thornburgh advise to evacuate after the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island? Children and pregnant women

2. From what movie did John Hinckley Jr. get the idea to assassinate President Ronald Reagan? “Taxi Driver”

3. When was the Alaskan territory officially transferred to the United States? Oct. 18, 1867

4. What document issued by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella declared that all Jews must leave Spain before the end of July 1492? The Alhambra Decree

5. Who called the Falkland Islands conflict between Argentina and Britain “two bald men fighting over a comb”? Jorge Luis Borges

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. How far was the Selma-to-Montgomery march? 54 miles

2. When was the Equal Rights Amendment most recently reintroduced? October 2009

3. Following Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” speech, who ordered royal soldiers to remove gunpowder from Williamsburg so that it couldn’t be used by colonialists? Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia

4. What event at a New York City factory galvanized the labor and progressive movements of the early 1900s? Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

5. Which 1978 document outlined a framework for peace between Egypt and Israel? Camp David Accords

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. A 1990 documentary claimed that who was responsible for the November 1974 Birmingham pub bombings? Seamus McLoughlin

2. How many times was Caesar stabbed by a group of senators hoping to restore the Roman republic? 23

3. What did St. Patrick use to teach new believers about the Holy Trinity? A three-leaf clover

4. When did the Academy Awards first air on national radio? 1944

5. What was Gandhi’s protest march called in which thousands of people symbolically made their own salt from seawater? “March to the Sea”

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. What proposal in 1820 attempted to maintain the balance of slave and free states in the United States Senate? The Missouri Compromise

2. Who was the first member of the American Girl Guides, later known as the Girl Scouts? Margaret “Daisy Doots” Gordon

3. After Russia’s February Revolution began in 1917, to whom did Czar Nicholas II try to cede his throne? His brother, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich

4. When was Dred Scott, a slave who sued for freedom after spending time in free territory, finally freed? May 26, 1857

5. What was the name of Axis Sally’s most notorious radio broadcast, intended to frighten Allied soldiers? “Vision of Invasion”

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. Who acted as an intermediary between the Charles Lindbergh family and their child’s kidnapper in 1932?  John F. Condon

2. When was Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech published in Russia?  1998

3. After Berlin’s Reichstag was burned down in 1933, what did German President Paul von Hindenburg sign “for the Protection of the People and the State”? The Reichstag Fire Decree

4. When did Britain relinquish Rhodesia as a colony?  February 1980

5. Who videotaped the beating of Rodney King by a group of white Los Angeles police officers in 1991? George Holliday

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. History, World History
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1. Suspects arrested in the 1993 car bombing in the World Trade Center’s basement garage were linked to which Islamic spiritual leader? Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman

2. What is the name of the most famous collection of rules governing duels? Code Duello

3. When was the Republic of Texas admitted to the United States? 1845

4. What was President Andrew Johnson impeached for? Violating the Tenure of Office Act

5. After his trip to Mecca, what did Malcolm X change his name to? el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. A new era of diplomacy between the United States and China dawned on April 6, 1971, when China invited nine Americans to play what sport in China? Ping-pong

2. When was the last Japanese-American internment camp in the United States closed? 1946

3. What was the name of Galileo’s book, published in 1632, in which he explained the Copernican theory? “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”

4. What document did the Soviet Union, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States sign in 1988, creating a timetable for the Soviets to withdraw from Afghanistan? Geneva Accords

5. When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s citizenship in the former Soviet Union restored? 1990

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. In 1815, what African-American Quaker led a group of freed slaves to Sierra Leone? Paul Cuffee

2. U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was released from a Soviet prison in exchange for whom? Soviet spy Rudolf Abel

3. In what Scottish prison was Mary Stuart, Catholic queen of Scotland, imprisoned? Loch Leven Castle

4. Who led an international movement to free Mandela in the 1980s? Oliver Tambo

5. During the presidential election of 1824, what was the United States’ only political party? Democratic-Republican

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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1. When did Iran’s military declare itself neutral, allowing revolutionaries to take control? Feb. 11, 1979

2. After Patty Hearst was arrested for participating in Symbionese Liberation Army robberies, what did she list as her occupation? Urban guerilla

3. The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association planned a march on Jan. 30, 1972, in protest of what? Internment and mistreatment of prisoners

4. When Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts voted with the liberal block in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish in 1937, what did his decision become known as? “the switch in time that saved nine”

5. The date of Groundhog Day—Feb. 2—is derived from which Christian holiday? Candlemas or the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin

Subject: History, Other History, Social Studies, U.S. Government, U.S. History, World History
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