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1. In 1931, comedian Will Rogers refused several honorary degrees because he didn't want to "make a joke out of college degrees." However, there was one degree he said he might accept - an A.D. What did "A.D." stand for?
Doctor of Applause
Doctor of Americana
Doctor of Applesauce
Doctor of Apropos

2. On December 14, 1948, Princess Elizabeth and Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, announced the full name of their son, born over four weeks previously. What was his name?

His Royal Highness Prince Charles Edward Oliver Henry
His Royal Highness Prince Andrew Albert Christian Edward
His Royal Highness Prince Philip Charles Edward Henry
His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur George

3. In which year did Communist China explode their first atomic bomb?

1961
1964
1973
1982

4. Which Nobel Prize winner declined the award?

Boris Pasternak
Marie Curie
Ivan Pavlov
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5. What was the wild romantic anarchist that raised hell while promoting birth control, free love, and homosexual rights and was deported in 1919 for opposing World War I after J. Edgar Hoover called her "one of the most dangerous women in America"?

Maud Younger
Emma Goldman
Jeannette Rankin
Voltairine de Cleyre

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