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History Quiz

Week of February 25, 2000

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1. Who is the author of The Silent World?
Richard Francis Burton
Edmund Hillary
Jacques Cousteau
Robert E. Peary

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms as president of the United States. In what year did Congress pass the 22nd Amendment, limiting the presidency to two terms?

1945
1951
1955
1961

3. Over what city did the zeppelin Hindenburg explode in 1937?

Lakehurst, New Jersey
Frankfurt, Germany
Needham, Massachusetts
Glasgow, Scotland

4. What was the name of the nuclear power plant that exploded in Chernobyl?

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Joseph Stalin Nuclear Power Plant
V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant
Kiev Nuclear Power Plant

5. What was Susan B. Anthony's middle name?

Brianna
Barbara
Belle
Brownell

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