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History Quiz

Week of August 10, 2000

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1. In what year did Kleenex, then called Celluwipes, debut?
1912
1924
1936
1948

2. What was the first Nazi concentration camp, which opened in 1933?

Auschwitz
Buchenwald
Dachau
Theresienstadt

3. Who created the popular children's television show "Sesame Street," which first aired in 1969?

Joan Ganz Cooney
David B. McCall
Jim Henson
Walt Disney

4. Who were the Baader-Meinhof Gang?

Ballet ensemble
Group of East German engineers
Powerful 1972 East German Olympic team
West German leftest terrorist group

5. Composer Carl Orff is best known for his trilogy _____.

Wozzeck
Sequoia
Tzigane
Trionfi

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