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1. Which country was NOT a member of the Axis Powers during World War II?
Italy
Hungary
Poland
Romania

2. What college did Helen Keller graduate from in 1904 as magna cum laude?

Radcliffe
Notre Dame
Columbia
Saint Mary's

3. The play and movie My Fair Lady was based on what Bernard Shaw play?

Candida
Pygmalion
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Cinderella

4. Though the 1968 Poor People's March on Washington was led by Ralph D. Abernathy Jr., who originally planned it in order to protest hunger in the United States?

Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr.
Jane Addams
Ray Kroc

5. On May 22, 1972, Ceylon changed its name to what?

Croatia
Singapore
Belarus
Sri Lanka

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