Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Part 2

1. Nathan Burnbaum became famous under what name

A) George Burns

B) Nate Burns

C) Harry Burns

D) Norman Burns

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2. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu born Skopje 1910 other name

A) Saint Teresa of Calcutta

B) Teresa of Calcutta

C) Theresa of Calcutta

D) Mother Theresa

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3. Who said 'The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds' ?

A) John F. Kennedy

B) Albert Einstein

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Socrates

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4. Who was Captain Edward J. Smith

A) First officer of the Titanic

B) Captain of the Lusitania

C) Captain of the Britannic

D) Captain of the titanic

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5. Which famous person said 'Hell is other people'

A) Albert Camus

B) Søren Kierkegaard

C) Friedrich Nietzsche

D) Jean-paul sartre

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6. Reginald Truscott-Jones became famous as who

A) British journalist

B) War correspondent

C) Ray Miland

D) Inventor of the gas lamp

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7. Which comedian and actors real first name were Leslie Townes

A) Charlie Chaplin

B) Cary Grant

C) Will Rogers

D) Bob Hope

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8. Israel Baline became more famous under what name

A) Abe Burrows

B) George Gershwin

C) Cole Porter

D) Irving Berlin

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9. The worst circus fire was in the USA in what year

A) 1944

B) 1943

C) 1945

D) 1948

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10. Reginald Carey became famous as who

A) Rex Harrison

B) Laurence Olivier

C) David Niven

D) Alec Guinness

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11. Who Was The First Woman To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic Ocean

A) Amelia Earhart

B) Amy Johnson

C) Jacqueline Cochran

D) Beryl Markham

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12. Whose epitaph reads, free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, i'm free at last

A) Martin Luther King Jr.

B) Frederick Douglass

C) Nelson Mandela

D) Rosa Parks

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13. In What Year Was The General Strike

A) 1919

B) 1926

C) 1923

D) 1930

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14. What Was Jackie Kennedy's Name Before She Married John F Kennedy

A) Jacqueline Bouvier

B) Jacqueline Kennedy

C) Jackie Onassis

D) Jackie Onnasis

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15. Who Was The Last King To Sit On The English Throne

A) George VI

B) George V

C) Edward VII

D) Henry VIII

E) William IV

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16. Who Was The First Catholic President Of The United States

A) John F. Kennedy

B) John Kerry

C) Al Smith

D) Joe Biden

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17. What year did British Honduras become Belize?

A) 1969

B) 1971

C) 1973

D) 1981

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18. Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War?

A) Neville Chamberlain

B) Winston Churchill

C) Stanley Baldwin

D) Ramsay MacDonald

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19. Which U.S. president said, "The buck stops here"

A) Lincoln

B) Eisenhower

C) Kennedy

D) Truman

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20. In What Year Did World War I Begin

A) 1913

B) 1914

C) 1918

D) 1939

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21. Who Was The Fist Footballer To Receive A Knighthood

A) Sir Stanley Matthews

B) Sir Tom Finney

C) Sir Bobby Charlton

D) Sir Geoff Hurst

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22. Which actress was the first wife of Ronald Regan?

A) Barbara Stanwyck

B) Mae West

C) Jane Wyman

D) Elizabeth Taylor

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23. Whaat Do Lord Lucan, Amelia Earheart , & Buster Crabbe Have In Common

A) They all achieved fame in aviation.

B) They All Disappeared Without A Trace

C) They were all associated with the film industry.

D) They all disappeared in the same year.

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24. In What Decade Did Sliced Bread First Appear?

A) 1930's

B) 1920's

C) 1940's

D) 1950's

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25. Film Title: ______ (a number) Leagues Under the Sea.

A) 10000

B) 15000

C) 20000

D) 25000

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26. Russian modernist Igor _________

A) Rachmaninov

B) Shostakovich

C) Stravinsky

D) Prokofiev

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27. "Our Town" is a play by whom?

A) Thornton Wilder

B) Arthur Miller

C) Henrik Ibsen

D) Tennessee Williams

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28. What Was The Name Of The Author Who Released A Guide To Baby And Child Care In 1946

A) Dr Seuss

B) Beatrix Potter

C) Dr Spock (No Kidding)

D) Benjamin Spock

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29. Who Wrote The Gulag Archipelago

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky

B) Alexander Solzhenitsyn

C) Leo Tolstoy

D) Vladimir Nabokov

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30. Who Composed The Opera (Oedipus Rex)

A) Gustav Mahler

B) Claude Debussy

C) George Enescu

D) Stravinsky

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31. Who Wrote (Old Possums Book Of Practical Cats)

A) W.B. Yeats

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Robert Frost

D) T.S. Eliot

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