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History Quiz

Week of October 5, 2000

First, select your answers to each question. Then press "Get Score" to score your quiz.

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1. Who was in the car with James Dean on September 30, 1955 when Dean's Porsche Spyder crashed, killing Dean?
Rolf Wuetherich
Donald Turnupseed
Montgomery Clift
Brendan Behan

2. In what year did the first drive-in theater open?

1927
1933
1941
1952

3. NATO was founded in 1949 with the signing of what treaty?

Utrecht Treaty
Treaty of Trianon
Versailles Treaty
North Atlantic Treaty

4. When Winston Churchill retired in 1955 at age 80, who succeeded him as Britain's prime minister?

Clement Attlee
Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Harold Wilson

5. Who founded the Pakistan People's Party in 1967 and was later president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973?

Mohammad Ayub Khan
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq

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