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<h1>1926</h1><p>MCMXXVI. Gotta love it.</p>
<p>Quiz created by: <a href="http://www.amiwrong.com/authors/billgraves.shtml">Bill Graves</a></p><br>1. According to cosmologist Patrizi Norelli-Bachelet, it was the beginning of the "Age of ..."
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Pisces</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Aquarius</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Being aged</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Taurus</div>
<br>2. Kevin O'Higgins was the Minister for Justice for which nation?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ireland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Luxembourg</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Scotland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Canada</div>
<br>3. Who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Robert Oppenheimer</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Robert Goddard</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Albert Einstein</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Chuck Yeager</div>
<br>4. Which future British monarch was born?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Victoria</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Elizabeth II</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) George VI</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) John Paul George IV</div>
<br>5. Who started the General Strike in Britain?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Launderers</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Fishermen</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Textile manufacturers</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Coal miners</div>
<br>6. Arthur Meighen was Prime Minister of which nation?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) England</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Mexico</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Canada</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Switzerland</div>
<br>7. What did Movietone do?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Recorded in 3-D</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Produced phonographs</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Recorded sound onto film</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Recorded in color</div>
<br>8. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across which body of water?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Pacific Ocean</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) English Channel</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Mississippi River</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Lake Erie</div>
<br>9. Who won the heavyweight boxing championship of the world?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Max Shmeling</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Jack Dempsey</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Joe Louis</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Gene Tunney</div>
<br>10. How did Harry Houdini die?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Fell 30 stories</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Eaten by a lion</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Drowning</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ruptured appendix</div>
<br>11. What American cross-country highway was established?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) I-5</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) I-80</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Route 66</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) I-40</div>
<br>12. Who was prime minister of Britain?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Neville Chamberlain</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Winston Churchill</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ramsay MacDonald</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Stanley Baldwin</div>
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