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History Quiz

Week of July 13, 2000

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1. On September 3, 1939, the Battle of the Atlantic begun. What started it?
The sinking of the Athenia
The sinking of the Lusitania
Pearl Harbor
The closing of the Suez Canal

2. Why did Charles Drew, the creator of the concept of a "blood bank," resign from his position as director of the American Red Cross blood donor program in 1942?

A proper facility could not be found
The government refused to give blood to soldiers wounded in WWII
The collected blood was to be segregated by race
The collected blood was not being properly checked for diseases

3. In what year did Dr. Benjamin Spock publish The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care?

1931
1946
1958
1965

4. What was "Prague Spring"?

A famous poem by Alexander Dubcek
A concerto by Czech composer Karel Husa
A blitzkrieg attack on Prague during WWII
A brief period of liberal reforms in communist Czechoslovakia

5. In 1982, nautical archaeologists raised what King Henry VIII ship, sunk in 1545, in Portsmouth Harbor, off the southern coast of England?

Thomas Wilson
Henrietta Marie
Margaret and John
Mary Rose

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