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History Quiz

Week of September 7, 2000

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1. Who flew the first human-powered flight across the English Channel in 1979?
Bryan Allen
Mark Talbot
Dwayne Filcott
Roy Thomas

2. In what year was there a massive explosion at Chelyabinsk (Soviet Union) of buried nuclear waste, contaminating 400 square miles with radiation?

1949
1957
1963
1975

3. On what ship were Japan's formal surrender documents signed, ending the war in the Pacific in 1945?

Alcatraz
Queen Mary
Missouri
Norfolk

4. What was the name of Eleanor Roosevelt's newspaper column, begun in 1936?

From the White House
My Day
Eleanor's Comments
Personal Reflection

5. Who wrote "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" in 1919?

Orville Wright
Wiley Post
Albert Einstein
Robert Goddard

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