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1. What political movement got its name from the hill in Jerusalem boasting the Temple of Solomon?

Zionism.

2. What nation started giving gas masks to its citizens before the Persian Gulf War?

Israel.

3. What presidents mug graces a $100,000 bill?

Woodrow Wilson's.

4. Who wore a suit instead of his usual military fatigues to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.N.?

Fidel Castro.

5. Who told the House Un-American Activities Committee that communist cartoonists might be using Mickey Mouse to spread propaganda?

Walt Disney.

6. Who did former communist Aleksander Kwasniewski defeat in a 1995 Eastern European presidential election?

Lech Walesa.

7. Who was the first U.N. secretary general to have both African and Arab roots?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

8. What do an average of 20 people do each year while staring at a Goodyear blimp?

Shoot at it.

9. What Nantucket shipwreck killed more divers exploring it than the 52 people it sank with?

The Andrea Doria.

10. What future saint ws originally taken to Ireland as a slave in 405 A.D.?

St. Patrick.

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11. What civil rights leader was near death after being stabbed in Harlem with a seven-inch letter opener in 1958?

Martin Luther King Jr.

12. Who wrote a 35,000-word manifesto the New York Times and Washington Post published on September 18, 1995?

The Unabomber.

13. What airline started out as the first crop-dusting outfit to battle boll weevils?

Delta Airlines.

14. Who did Henry VIII have beheaded for witchcraft and adultery, along with her wolfhound?

Anne Boleyn.

15. What war was raging when isolationists adopted the motto America first?

World War I.

16. What British prime minister shared breakfast in bed with a parrot named Toby?

Winston Churchill.

17. What 1964 coin did many Americans tend to save rather than spend?

The Kennedy half-dollar.

18. What U.S. state did Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky threaten to reclaim, in 1995?

Alaska.

19. What country did the U.S. invade in 1989 in what George Will dubbed an act of hemispheric hygiene?

Panama.

20. What 17th century English Lord Protectors severed head was finally buried after 300 years?

Oliver Cromwell's.

21. What nationality was Gavrilo Princip, who set off World War I by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand?

Serbian.

22. What did Hirohito refer to as a tragic interlude, during a 1975 U.S. visit?

World War II.

23. What leader ruled an area that stretched from the North Sea to central Italy at the onset of the ninth century?

Charlemagne.

24. What name has been shared by the most popes?

John

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25. What president opined: Once you get into this great stream of history you can not get out?

Richard Nixon.

26. What Persian Gulf warrior called his young majors in charge of combat operations Jedi Knights?

Norman Schwarzkopf.

27. What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?

Ronald Reagan.

28. What Ohio city was the 1995 Bosnian peace accord signed in?

Dayton.

29. What country was Adolf Hitler born in?

Austria.

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