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History Quiz

Week of May 18, 2000

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1. Who discovered that X rays could mutate genes and began to alert others of the danger?
Hermann Muller
Wilhelm Röntgen
Charles Barkla
Marie Curie

2. In 1933 at Miami, Florida, Joseph Zangara attempted to assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Though he failed to hit F.D.R., who did he fatally wound?

U.S. Vice President John N. Garner
Secretary of the Treasury William H. Woodin
Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak
Miami Mayor Robert K. High

3. In what movie did Orson Welles portray the life story of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst?

The Deep
Too Much Johnson
Mr. Arkadin
Citizen Kane

4. Ahmed Sékou Touré became the first president of what newly independent country in 1958?

Guinea
Fiji
Djibouti
Comoros

5. In 1990, 93 countries signed The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the ______?

Water table
Ozone layer
Rainforests
Wetlands

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