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History Quiz

Week of March 10, 2000

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1. When did the opera Madame Butterfly and the play Peter Pan make their appearance?
1904
1912
1928
1952

2. How much was Germany asked to pay in reparations following World War I?

$132,000
$132 million
$132 billion
$132 trillion

3. What was the name of the 1928 film with the first sound track directly on the film?

Gone With The Wind
The Jazz Singer
Of Mice and Men
Birth of A Nation

4. What does the name of the Russian newspaper "Pravada," founded during the Russian Revolution, mean?

People
State
Justice
Truth

5. Who was the inventor of the blood bank but was forbidden to donate his own blood because he was black?

Benjamin Banneker
Daniel Hale Williams
George Washington Carver
Charles Drew

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