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History Quiz

Week of March 23, 2000

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1. Which of the following scientific advances occurred first?
Penicillin discovered
Quantum physics created
Carbon 14 dating invented
DNA structure decoded

2. What was the name of Rachel Carson's famous 1962 book about the dangers of DDT?

Under the Sea Wind
And No Birds Sing
Lost Woods
Silent Spring

3. From where in France were over 350,000 British and French troops evacuated in May 1940?

Dunkirk
Normandy
Marseille
Cherbourg

4. How old was Myra Gale Brown Lewis, wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, when the two were married in December 1957?

12
13
14
15

5. An English, country veterinarian wrote heart warming tales in "All Creatures Great and Small" under the pen name James Herriot. What was the author's real name?

Benjamin Spock
John McCormack
James Alfred Wight
Jim R. Plumpkin

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