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<h1>1892</h1><p>It was a leap year, and boy, the joint was hoppin'!</p>
<p>Quiz created by: <a href="http://www.amiwrong.com/authors/billgraves.shtml">Bill Graves</a></p><br>1. Where was the first official basketball game played?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Canton, Ohio</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Springfield, Massachusetts</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Detroit, Michigan</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Cooperstown, New York</div>
<br>2. Who organized the Sierra Club?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) John Muir</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) David Brower</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ansel Adams</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Carl Pope</div>
<br>3. Who received a patent for a 2-way telegraph?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Alexander Graham Bell</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Louis Pasteur</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Samuel Morse</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Thomas Edison</div>
<br>4. Who created Sherlock Holmes?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) James Moriarty</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Arthur Conan Doyle</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Edgar Allen Poe</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) John Watson</div>
<br>5. Where did European immigrants to America usually stop first?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ellis Island</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Liberty Island</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Boston</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Cape Cod</div>
<br>6. What was Homer Plessy arrested for?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Marrying a white woman</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Tax evasion</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Sitting in a whites-only car</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Rape</div>
<br>7. Where did the Great Fire of 1892 occur?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) British Columbia</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Alberta</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Newfoundland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Nova Scotia</div>
<br>8. Who won the United States Presidential Election?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Benjamin Harrison</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Grover Cleveland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) James Weaver</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Abraham Lincoln</div>
<br>9. Which member of the Dalton Gang survived the Coffeyville, Kansas bank robbery attemp?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Frank</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Grat</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Emmett</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Bob</div>
<br>10. In which state did the Homestead Strike occur?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Michigan</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Illinois</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Pennsylvania</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ohio</div>
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