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History Quiz

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1. In soldiers' slang from World War I, who was a British Tommy talking about if he used the term "Billjim"?
An American
A Scotsman
A German
An Australian

2. On July 19, 1938, "Wrong-Way" Corrigan made headlines -- and got his nickname -- after he took off in his Curtiss Robin airplane in heavy fog from New York and landed not in his intended destination of Los Angeles, but instead in which city?

Ottawa, Canada
Dublin, Ireland
Jacksonville, Florida
Fargo, North Dakota

3. In what year did Ray Kroc buy out the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million (with interest the total came to $14 million)?

1952
1955
1961
1966

4. Communist leader Mao Zedong ruled China from 1949 until his death from what disease in 1976?

Parkinson's
Tuberculosis
Diabetes
Syphilis

5. What presidential Executive Order authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII?

572
1944
5167
9066

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