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<h1>1949</h1><p>One era was ending, another beginning...</p>
<p>Quiz created by: <a href="http://www.amiwrong.com/authors/billgraves.shtml">Bill Graves</a></p><br>1. Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) David Ben-Gurion</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Moshe Sharett</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Levi Eshkol</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Golda Meir</div>
<br>2. In March, Britain lifted the rationing of what?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Clothes</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Electricity</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Food</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Water</div>
<br>3. What was Canada's 10th province?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) British Columbia</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Nova Scotia</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Alberta</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Newfoundland & Labrador</div>
<br>4. Éire became which nation?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Great Britain</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Republic of Ireland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Scotland</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Belgium</div>
<br>5. Siam changed it's name to what?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Thailand</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Bangkok</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Taiwan</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Burma</div>
<br>6. Who wrote "1984"?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) George Orwell</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Kurt Vonnegut</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Ray Bradbury</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Aldous Huxley</div>
<br>7. Israel signed a truce with which nation?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Iraq</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Lebanon</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Egypt</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Syria</div>
<br>8. What was the code name of the first Soviet atomic bomb?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Lenin 1</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Stalin 1</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Comrade 1</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Joe 1</div>
<br>9. Which nation vetoed UN membership for Ceylon, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Jordan and Portugal?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) United States</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) China</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) England</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Soviet Union</div>
<br>10. Deutsche Demokratische Republik is German for ...
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Dutch Democratic Republic</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) People's Republic of Germany</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Federal Republic of Germany</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) German Democratic Republic</div>
<br>11. Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte were executed for the assassination of whom?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Indira Gandhi</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Mahatma Gandhi</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Che Guevara</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Leon Trotsky</div>
<br>12. The government of the Republic of China evacuated to where?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Taiwan</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Thailand</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Cambodia</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Korea</div>
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