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History Quiz

Week of April 20, 2000

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1. What was the first full-length movie with an all Native American cast?
Geronimo
Hiawatha
Pocahontas
Sacajawea

2. What first went on sale at Marshall Field's in Chicago in January 1935?

Lip coloring sold in stick form
T-shirts
Trousers for women
Men's briefs with an open seam

3. What was not part of the Locarno Pact of 1925?

Declared disputes between Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy would be solved by arbitration or other peaceful means
Guaranteed post-WWI boundaries between Germany, France, and Belgium
Limited Germany's army to 100,000
Stipulated that if one of the signatories breached the pact, the other signatories would aid the country attacked

4. The Hubble telescope, which has a 94 inch primary mirror and a wide-field planetary camera, was launched into space in 1990. What did the Hubble telescope confirm the existence of on May 25, 1994?

Black holes
Pluto
Ceres asteroid
Cosmic gamma-ray bursts

5. The last natural occurence of smallpox was in October 1977. Where was it reported?

Sri Lanka
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Zambia

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