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1. Which British prime minister was the child of a circus acrobat and was the youngest prime minister of the 20th century?
Winston Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair

2. Julie Andrews made the character of Mary Poppins famous to young and old alike in the movie, but who wrote the series of books the film was based on?

Madeleine L'Engle
Wilson Rawls
Frances Hodgson Burnett
P. L. Travers

3. In what year did Austrian pathologist Karl Landsteiner discover the existence of blood types, uncovering that they were the reason for blood clots forming in some recipients of blood transfusions?

1909
1914
1923
1937

4. What was the name of the plan in which Mao Zedong placed half a billion Chinese peasants into communes, eliminated private property?

Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
Collectivisation
Austerity Program

5. What two baseball teams were about to play when the Loma Prieta earthquake disrupted the World Series on October 17, 1989?

Atlanta Braves and Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A's
San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's
St. Louis Cardinals and Minnesota Twins

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