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1. Before "S.O.S." was adopted as the standard international distress signal in 1908, many people used the code recommended by radio inventor Guglielmo Marconi. What was the code?
C.Q.D.
A.B.C.
H.E.L.P.
T.T.R.

2. In 1916, the first tanks ever to be used in warfare entered into what World War I battle?

Ypres
Marne
Verdun
Somme

3. What was the name of the very first Bugs Bunny cartoon?

A Wild Hare
Porky's Hare Hunt
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Knighty-Knight Bugs

4. On April 12, 1961, Soviet astronaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first person to orbit the earth. How long was his flight?

1 hr, 48 min
3 hr, 4 min
5 hr, 22 min
10 hr, 17 min

5. Mount St. Helens decimated 230 square miles of forest and turned day into night when it last erupted on the morning of May 18 of what year?

1976
1978
1980
1982

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