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History Quiz

Week of January 25, 2001

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1. What was the name of U.S. President Harry Truman's private railroad car?
Marco Polo
Ferdinand Magellan
Amerigo Vespucci
Meriwether Lewis

2. In what year did the People's Republic of China explode their first hydrogen bomb?

1949
1954
1967
1972

3. What oil tanker ran aground in December 1976 off the coast of Nantucket, spilling more than 180,000 barrels of crude oil?

Arrow
Exxon Valdez
Knock Dun
Argo Merchant

4. What author published Across the River and into the Trees in 1950?

Ernest Hemingway
J. D. Salinger
John Hersey
Isak Dinesen

5. When Germany defaulted on their WWI reparation payments, the French did what in 1923?

Sunk 5 German U-boats
Signed a treaty with Poland to create a two-front war
Occupied the industrialized section of Germany, the Ruhr
Bombed Berlin

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