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History Quiz

Week of April 6, 2000

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1. When Gerald Ford assumed the presidency in 1974 after Richard Nixon's resignation, who did Ford choose for his vice president?
Henry Kissinger
Nelson Rockefeller
James Schlesinger
Jimmy Carter

2. When an American B-52 bomber crashed into a K-C 135 plane over Almeria, Spain in 1966, something fell into the ocean and wasn't recovered for two months. What was it?

One ton of cocaine
The U.S. ambassador to Spain
An Apollo spacecraft
An H-bomb

3. Who wrote the lines: "Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day / Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Dylan Thomas
Robert Frost
Rainer Maria Rilke
Henry David Thoreau

4. What were the "Pumpkin Papers"?

A Halloween story starring Charlie Brown
An alternative to paper made from trees
Famous pumpkin pie recipe stolen from a New York restaurant
Spy secrets stuffed into a pumpkin

5. What was Volgograd's name before it was changed to Stalingrad in 1925?

Tsaritsyn
Petrograd
St. Petersburg
Leningrad

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