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1. In 1946, Proctor & Gamble launched the first laundry detergent. Which brand was introduced?
Coast
Jane
Purex
Tide

2. Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate which U.S. president on November 1, 1950?

Eisenhower
Truman
Kennedy
Humphrey

3. Who succeeded Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1969?

Warren Burger
Thurgood Marshall
William Rehnquist
Harry Blackmun

4. In what year did Martina Navratilova first win Wimbledon?

1978
1980
1982
1984

5. Former Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Shevardnadze became president of which country in 1992?

Armenia
Ukraine
Georgia
Kazakhstan

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