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History Quiz

Week of March 3, 2000

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1. Who was the first U.S. president born in the twentieth century?
Harry S. Truman
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy

2. Many people credit New Zealander Edmund Hillary with being the first to reach the top of Mt. Everste, but Hillary climbed with a Nepalese Sherpa guide. What was the name of the co-explorer who jointly reached the summit with Hillary?

Chering Lama
Tensing Norgay
Nuru Sherpa
Sonam Lhakpa

3. Though he lived only 18 days after the operation, who was the first person to receive a human heart transplant?

David Blade
Forrest Hume
Louis Washkansky
Blake Washington

4. Harold Ross (1895-1951) founded what magazine?

The New Yorker
Time Magazine
Newsweek
People

5. In 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 rocket plane. What was the name of the aircraft he flew on that historic day?

Spruce Goose
Golden Eagle
Speedy Maggie
Glamorous Glennis

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