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Q 1 : Which one of these novels was not written by Jane Austen?
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Q 2 : Of all eventual Nobel Prize winners, which one was born first--in 1817, sixteen years before Alfred Nobel himself?
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Q 3 : Which of these buildings was designed by the Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli?
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Q 4 : Katharine Lee Bates wrote the words to what patriotic U.S. song?
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Q 5 : Which of these women was never prominent in the British Labor Party?
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Q 6 : Who was the first prime minister of Israel?
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Q 7 : Who was the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?
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Q 8 : Architect James Hoban is best known for designing what building?
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Q 9 : David Peterson and Bob Rae recently served as premiers of which Canadian province?
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Q 10 : Which one of these people is not a noted movie director?
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Q 11 : Mao Tse-tung died in which year?
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Q 12 : Napoleon III was captured by the Germans at what battle of the Franco-Prussian War?
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Q 13 : What small business did Ray Kroc turn into a world-wide corporation?
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Q 14 : Which of these people never served as major-league baseball commissioner?
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Q 15 : Delphine Delamare, whose adultery led to her 1848 suicide, was the inspiration for what literary character?
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Q 16 : Whom did John Bellingham kill in 1812, the only British prime minister ever to be assassinated?
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Q 17 : "Coming of Age in Samoa" is the most famous book by what anthropologist?
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Q 18 : Who, in 1913, was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
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Q 19 : What U.S. president was born with the name Leslie Lynch King?
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Q 20 : Who was the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress?
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Q 21 : Errol Barrow and Ruth Nita Barrow were siblings prominent in what country?
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Q 22 : In 1991, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the first woman president of what country?
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Q 23 : Chester Gillette's 1906 murder of Grace Brown was the inspiration for what 1925 novel?
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Q 24 : Which of these paintings is not by Gustave Courbet?
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Q 25 : In what year did John Paul II become pope?
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Q 26 : What novelist and poet became the first U.S. poet laureate in 1986?
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Q 27 : The music to "West Side Story" was composed by what noted conductor?
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Q 28 : Walter Reuther and Owen Bieber were presidents of which labor union?
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Q 29 : What mystery writer created the character Nero Wolfe?
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Q 30 : What chemical element did Henry Cavendish discover in 1766?
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Q 31 : What Christian sect was founded by John Biddle?
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Q 32 : Who was the first woman to serve in the Canadian House of Commons?
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Q 33 : In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
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Q 34 : Who was the first president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union?
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Q 35 : Who played in 2,130 consecutive major-league baseball games, a record broken by Cal Ripken?
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Q 36 : Frederick Kittel was the original name of what playwright?
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Q 37 : What material did Roy Plunkett invent in 1938, later made commercially practical by William Hanford?
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Q 38 : What humanist, executed by Henry VIII in 1535, is considered the patron saint of lawyers?
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Q 39 : Bernard Courtois discovered what chemical element in 1811?
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Q 40 : Which one of these psychological works is not by Sigmund Freud?
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Q 41 : Which mystery writer created the character V. I. Warshawski?
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Q 42 : What French writer was born Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin?
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Q 43 : Jane Byrne and Harold Washington were recent mayors of what U.S. city?
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Q 44 : Who was the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
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Q 45 : Philosophers Albert Camus and Jacques Derrida were born in what country?
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Q 46 : Who was the first female Republican governor in the United States?
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Q 47 : Yumzhagiyen Tsedenbal was the longtime Communist ruler of what country?
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Q 48 : What actress and singer, born Frances Gumm, was the mother of Liza Minnelli?
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Q 49 : What noted poet became the first president of Senegal in 1960?
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Q 50 : By what name is the poet Anna Gorenko better known?
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Q 51 : Hockey players Jaromir Jagr and Dominik Hasek were born in what present-day nation?
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Q 52 : Who, in 1978, was the first person in space who was a citizen of neither the Soviet Union nor the United States?
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Q 53 : Who was the first sitting member of the U.S. Congress to give birth?
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Q 54 : Marcelo Rios and Maria Bueno are associated with what sport?
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Q 55 : Arthur Harmon, William Lamb, and Richmond Shreve are best known for designing what building?
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Q 56 : Pixley Seme was the main founder of what organization, later led by Oliver Tambo and Albert Luthuli?
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Q 57 : Beverley Whitfield and Ann Curtis were famous for their skill in what sport?
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Q 58 : In 1961, who became the first American in space?
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Q 59 : Which of these movies was not directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
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Q 60 : Which of these men is not a recent prime minister of India?
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Q 61 : Baal Shem Tov was a key figure in what religious sect?
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Q 62 : "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" are works by what writer?
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Q 63 : Who discovered benzene?
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Q 64 : St. Anselm, St. Dunstan, and Thomas a Becket all held what ecclesiastical post?
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Q 65 : Dennis Gabor won the 1971 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing what?
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Q 66 : Which one of these people served as governor of Texas?
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Q 67 : Ntare V was the last king of what country?
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Q 68 : What novelist and political theorist was born Alissa Rosenbaum in Russia in 1905?
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Q 69 : What admiral developed the concept of a compiled computer language and was the main developer of COBOL?
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Q 70 : Renato Ruggiero of Italy was the first head of which organization?
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Q 71 : In 1991, Edith Cresson became the first female prime minister of what country?
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Q 72 : What astronomical discovery did William Herschel make in 1781?
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Q 73 : Which of these men was never head coach of the Dallas Cowboys?
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Q 74 : In 1957, who became Canada's first female cabinet member?
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Q 75 : Who was the first female Democrat to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress?
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Q 76 : In 1972, William Gopallawa became the first president of what country?
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Q 77 : In 1913, Arthur Wynne invented what popular diversion?
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Q 78 : Which of these is not a novel by Charles Dickens?
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Q 79 : From 1960 to 1993, Felix Houphouet-Boigny was president of what country?
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Q 80 : Who, in 1963, became the first woman in space?
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Q 81 : Of which one of these countries was Albert Einstein never a citizen?
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Q 82 : What architect designed Dulles International Airport and the St. Louis Arch?
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Q 83 : Who became the first permanent secretary-general of the United Nations, in 1946?
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Q 84 : In 1975, Michael Thomas Somare became the first prime minister of what country?
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Q 85 : Getulio Vargas and Ernesto Geisel were leaders of what country?
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Q 86 : What poet wrote the poem "The New Colossus" inscribed on the Statue of Liberty?
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Q 87 : Which of these is not an opera by Richard Wagner?
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Q 88 : What portrait painter active in the American Revolution also founded the first major U.S. museum in 1786?
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Q 89 : Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is better known, and revered, by what name?
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Q 90 : Antonio Salazar led what country from 1932 to 1968?
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Q 91 : Who discovered uranium?
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Q 92 : Which of these is not a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
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Q 93 : Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman gained fame playing for what NFL team?
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Q 94 : Which of these labor leaders was never president of the AFL-CIO?
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Q 95 : Jacopo Robusti was the original name of what Italian painter?
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Q 96 : What is the nationality of chess players Jan Timman and Max Euwe?
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Q 97 : Which of these leaders never served as president of Indonesia?
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Q 98 : Which of these is not a novel by Sinclair Lewis?
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Q 99 : Which chemical element did Daniel Rutherford discover in 1772?
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Q 100 : Who founded the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1876?
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Q 101 : Which of these Swedish movies was not directed by Ingmar Bergman?
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Q 102 : By what one-word pseudonym is French writer Jean Baptiste Poquelin better known?
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Q 103 : In 1953, Vijaya Pandit of India became the first female president of what?
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Q 104 : Which one of these people was not born in Egypt?
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Q 105 : Francis II was the last ruler of which empire?
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Q 106 : What did Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines co-discover in 1956?
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Q 107 : Which one of these religious leaders was born first?
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Q 108 : Whom did Ismet Inonu succeed as president in 1938?
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Q 109 : Track stars Donovan Bailey and Linford Christie were born in what country?
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Q 110 : Which scientist is known for his Three Laws of Planetary Motion?
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Q 111 : What Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914?
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Q 112 : Anwar Sadat was assassinated in what year?
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Q 113 : The 1977 novel "Her Death of Cold" introduced what sleuth?
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Q 114 : What chemist's discoveries include calcium, magnesium, and sodium?
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Q 115 : Which of these people never led Britain's Labor Party?
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Q 116 : Persian queen Artemisia II ordered the construction of what building to honor her dead husband?
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Q 117 : Which of these operas was not composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
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Q 118 : In 1990, Violeta Chamorro became the first female president of what country?
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Q 119 : Which of these people never served as president of Ireland?
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Q 120 : What Russian leader did Ignaty Grinevitsky assassinate in 1881?
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Q 121 : What poet won a Pulitzer for "The Age of Anxiety" and was also Thomas Mann's son-in-law?
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Q 122 : What logician born in 1839 is considered a founder of semiotics as well as the founder of Pragmatism?
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Q 123 : Which writer created the character Rumpole of the Bailey?
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Q 124 : Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is a major novelist from what East African nation?
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Q 125 : Kofi Annan is the most famous diplomat from what country?
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Q 126 : In what year did Muhammad make the Hegira from Mecca to Medina?
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Q 127 : Henry Sweet, a phonetician who died in 1912, was the inspiration for what 1913 play?
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Q 128 : Edwin Armstrong invented what method of transmitting information?
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Q 129 : Which mystery writer created the character Kinsey Millhone?
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Q 130 : Who won the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in 1912, though his medals were revoked?
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Q 131 : Ide Oumarou and Diallo Telli were secretaries-general of what international group?
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Q 132 : What Swedish diplomat was killed in a 1961 plane crash while mediating a dispute in the Congo?
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Q 133 : Which country is ruled by the Wangchuk dynasty?
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Q 134 : Who was the first Communist prime minister freely elected in Asia?
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Q 135 : What did Chinese eunuch Tsai Lun invent in the year 105?
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Q 136 : What alchemist and theologian, who discovered arsenic, is considered the patron saint of scientists?
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Q 137 : Which of these artists did not belong to the Dadaist movement?
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Q 138 : In 1911, who led the first expedition that successfully reached the South Pole?
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Q 139 : What Connecticut Democrat was the first female U.S. governor not preceded in office by her husband?
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Q 140 : What Pakistani was the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize for science?
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Q 141 : Yasar Kemal is known for his writings in what language?
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Q 142 : "Confessions of a Mask" and "Sea of Fertility" are works by what Japanese novelist?
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Q 143 : Which one of these people did not direct two movies that won the Palme d'Or?
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Q 144 : Which woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996?
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Q 145 : Which of these pieces of music was not composed by Tchaikovsky?
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Q 146 : What pacifist, who died in a concentration camp, won the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for opposing Nazism?
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Q 147 : Who, in 1928, made the first trans-Pacific airplane flight, seven years before disappearing?
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Q 148 : What did French pharmacist Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invent in 1869?
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Q 149 : In what year was William Shakespeare born?
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Q 150 : Which of these operas was not composed by Giacomo Puccini?
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Q 151 : Nobel laureates Miguel Asturias and Rigoberta Menchu were nationals of what country?
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Q 152 : Lee Tamahori and Abbas Kiarostami are noted as what?
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Q 153 : Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
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Q 154 : Who was the first woman to chair a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives?
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Q 155 : Which of these people never served as U.S. poet laureate?
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Q 156 : Which one of these women never served in Bill Clinton's cabinet?
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Q 157 : In which year did Margaret Thatcher first become prime minister?
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Q 158 : In 1995, Rilwanu Lukman of Nigeria became secretary-general of what organization?
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Q 159 : Which of these plays was not written by Henrik Ibsen?
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Q 160 : Mahavira founded what religion in India in the sixth century B.C.?
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Q 161 : What Christian saint, born Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus, produced the Vulgate translation of the Bible?
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Q 162 : Lincoln Alexander was the first black elected to what country's federal legislature?
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Q 163 : Richard Wagner wrote an 1842 opera about which Italian leader?
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Q 164 : What South African author won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Q 165 : What British monarch abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson?
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Q 166 : Which one of these writers was not born in Egypt?
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Q 167 : Who became president of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994?
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Q 168 : What Canadian writer who died in 1995 is best known for the Deptford trilogy?
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Q 169 : What British author was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903?
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Q 170 : George F. Train's remarkable travels were the inspiration for what 1874 novel?
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Q 171 : Who co-founded the Intel Corporation in 1968 after inventing the first practical microchip?
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Q 172 : What female physicist made the first observation of parity violation in particle physics, in 1957?
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Q 173 : What actress starred in Hitchcock's "The Birds" and is the mother of Melanie Griffith?
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Q 174 : A 1930 novel by Mildred Benson introduced what sleuth?
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Q 175 : What world leader did Nathuram Vinayak Godse assassinate in 1948?
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Q 176 : Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Arthur Lewis were born in what small island nation?
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Q 177 : Which of these people is not famous as a chess player?
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Q 178 : Before becoming pope, John Paul II had been archbishop of what city?
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Q 179 : What actor starred in "Raising Arizona" and "Moonstruck" and is Francis Ford Coppola's nephew?
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Q 180 : In 1966, Andrew Brimmer became the first black member of what?
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Q 181 : Which of these writers is not from Nigeria?
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Q 182 : Archbishop Makarios III was the first president of what country?
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Q 183 : Chen Lu and Alexei Urmanov are famous for their skill in what sport?
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Q 184 : In 1997, Homero Aridjis of Mexico became head of what group?
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Q 185 : Sobhuza II spent eighty-three years as titular king of what country?
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Q 186 : What popular game did architect Alfred M. Butts invent in 1933?
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Q 187 : What quarterback led the Green Bay Packers to victory in the first two Super Bowls?
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Q 188 : Which of these labor leaders was never president of the Teamsters?
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Q 189 : Which of these athletes is not known as a long-distance runner?
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Q 190 : Which one of these athletes is not Australian?
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Q 191 : "Midnight's Children" and "The Moor's Last Sigh" are works by what Indian-born novelist?
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Q 192 : "The Old Gringo" and "The Death of Artemio Cruz" are works by what Mexican writer and diplomat?
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Q 193 : What Christian martyr who died in 303 is the patron saint of Germany, England, and Portugal?
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Q 194 : Which of these painters was not closely associated with Cubism?
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Q 195 : Cairine Wilson was the first woman to serve in what country's Senate?
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Q 196 : Which of these operas was not composed by Gioacchino Rossini?
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Q 197 : From 1969 to 1991, Moussa Traore was president of what African nation?
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Q 198 : Henry Villard, who founded General Electric, was the son-in-law of what abolitionist?
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Q 199 : In 1922, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of what 18th dynasty pharaoh?
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Q 200 : What interim leader of Russia was overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917?
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Q 201 : Which one of these people never held power in Uganda?
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Q 202 : Jose Saramago, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, hailed from what country?
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Q 203 : Who, in 1980, became the world's first elected woman president of any country?
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Q 204 : In what year did Joseph Stalin die?
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Q 205 : What long-lost archaeological site did Hiram Bingham discover in 1911?
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Q 206 : Who came to power when Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr stepped down in 1979?
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Q 207 : In 1998, who succeeded Ryutaro Hashimoto as prime minister of Japan?
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Q 208 : Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered what hormone, used in treating diabetes?
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Q 209 : Jose Guerrero, the first president of the International Court of Justice, hailed from which country?
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Q 210 : Which of these operas is not by Donizetti?
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Q 211 : In 1971, Annabelle Rankin became the first woman to serve as an ambassador from what country?
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Q 212 : What Canadian, who later became prime minister, won a Nobel Peace Prize for trying to mediate the Suez Crisis?
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Q 213 : Donald Defreeze, known as Cinque Mtume, founded what notorious cult in 1972?
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Q 214 : Which one of these people is not a noted movie director?
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Q 215 : In 1970, Dawda K. Jawara became the first president of what African country?
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Q 216 : Which of these people was never chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
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Q 217 : Who was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for best director?
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Q 218 : John Clark Sheehan invented a semi-synthetic form of what substance?
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Q 219 : What name was shared by the founders of the Han and Tang dynasties in China?
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Q 220 : Alice Coachman and Dick Fosbury won gold medals in what Olympic event?
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Q 221 : Stanley Rous and Joao Havelange have both headed what organization?
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Q 222 : Yoshisuke Aikawa is considered the founder of what company?
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Q 223 : What synthetic material did Ray McIntire invent in 1944?
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Q 224 : In 1943, Dorothy Tangney became the first woman to serve in what nation's Senate?
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Q 225 : In 1997, Jenny Shipley became the first female prime minister of what nation?
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Q 226 : Granville Stanley Hall and Max Wertheimer gained fame in what field?
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Q 227 : Urho Kekkonen and Mauno Koivisto were presidents of what country?
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Q 228 : Jack Hobbs, Wilfred Rhodes, and Frederick Spofforth are associated with what sport?
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Q 229 : Which of these people is not famous as a college basketball coach?
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Q 230 : Which Austrian foreign minister established the Germanic Confederation?
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Q 231 : In what year was Indira Gandhi assassinated?
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Q 232 : Who was the first Jewish justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
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Q 233 : Enid Lyons was the first woman to serve in what country's House of Representatives?
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Q 234 : Whose novel "The Stone Diaries" won her the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
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Q 235 : What French king halted the Saracen invasion of Europe at the 732 battle of Tours?
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Q 236 : Kenneth Olsen founded what computer company in 1957?
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Q 237 : What inventor of the instant camera founded Polaroid in 1932?
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Q 238 : Which one of these people is not a noted movie director?
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Q 239 : Julia Robinson and Emmy Noether gained fame as what?
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Q 240 : Which of these people never led Israel's Labor Party?
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Q 241 : Nanak, born in the Punjab in 1469, was the founder of what religion?
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Q 242 : Which of these people never served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
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Q 243 : What Anatolian bishop is the patron saint of Greece and Russia as well as pawnbrokers?
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Q 244 : In 1929, Margaret Bondfield became what country's first female cabinet member?
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Q 245 : Johann Rall led the Hessians defeated in what battle?
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Q 246 : What substance did Umetaro Suzuki isolate in 1910?
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Q 247 : Elizabeth Hall, who died in 1670, was the last surviving direct descendant of whom?
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Q 248 : What Inca king of Peru was defeated and killed by Francisco Pizarro in 1533?
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Q 249 : In 1993, Kulkaweerasingham Veerakumar assassinated Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of what nation?
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Q 250 : What did Ascanio Sobrero discover in 1847?
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Q 251 : In 1975, Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman ever to do what?
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Q 252 : What leader of the True Path party became Turkey's first female prime minister in 1993?
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Q 253 : Which of these politicians never served as governor of New York?
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Q 254 : Habib Bourguiba was the first president of what northernmost African nation?
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Q 255 : Which of these people is not a recent prime minister of France?
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Q 256 : The first female prime minister in the Caribbean was Eugenia Charles of what country?
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Q 257 : From 1954 to 1989, Alfredo Stroessner was dictator of what nation?
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Q 258 : What statesman, born Herbert Frahm, won the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating East-West detente?
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Q 259 : Chedli Klibi and Mahmud Riad served as secretaries-general of what group?
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Q 260 : Alexander Selkirk was the real-life inspiration for what fictional character?
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Q 261 : Who was the first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
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Q 262 : "On Human Nature" and other works have made what entomologist the foremost exponent of sociobiology?
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Q 263 : Which of these was not written by Friedrich Nietzsche?
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Q 264 : What emperor, born Ras Tafari Mekonnen, was crowned in 1930?
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Q 265 : After reaching India, Vasco da Gama founded a Portuguese colony in what present-day nation?
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Q 266 : Helmut Kohl was whose immediate successor as chancellor of West Germany?
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Q 267 : What is Stephanie Kwolek most famous for inventing?
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Q 268 : Which mystery writer created the character Lord Peter Wimsey?
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Q 269 : Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded what company?
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Q 270 : Which of these activists was not closely associated with the Black Panther Party?
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Q 271 : Who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
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Q 272 : Which of these people is not a recent prime minister of Poland?
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Q 273 : Isaac Newton was born in the same year that Galileo died. What year was it?
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Q 274 : The novel "The Ghost Road" won what English writer the 1995 Booker Prize?
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Q 275 : What Catholic pope served the longest tenure in history?
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Q 276 : Who was the first president of Kenya?
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Q 277 : Austrian writer Felix Salten created what fictional character in 1923?
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Q 278 : Enver Hoxha was the longtime Communist dictator of what nation?
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Q 279 : Sostratus of Cnidus designed which wonder of the ancient world?
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Q 280 : Sandra Day O'Connor served as majority leader of which state's senate?
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Q 281 : Benjamin Azikiwe, Alhaji Shagari, and Ibrahim Babangida are past leaders of what African nation?
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Q 282 : What educator became the first president of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881?
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Q 283 : Whom did Sandra Feldman succeed as president of the American Federation of Teachers?
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Q 284 : Which of these women is not closely associated with basketball?
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Q 285 : "The Scent of Green Papaya" brought acclaim to what Vietnamese movie director?
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Q 286 : Bruno Hauptmann was executed for kidnapping and murdering whom?
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Q 287 : In 1979, Lidia Gueiler Tejada became the first female president of what country?
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Q 288 : Which one of these plays did not win Edward Albee a Pulitzer Prize?
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Q 289 : Which of these Japanese movies was not directed by Akira Kurosawa?
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Q 290 : Which of these is not an opera by Giuseppe Verdi?
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Q 291 : In 1873, Joseph Glidden invented the first commercially practical version of what?
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Q 292 : What explorer, in 1778, became the first European to visit Hawaii?
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Q 293 : Ruth Owen, the first female U.S. ambassador, was the daughter of what politician?
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Q 294 : Saparmurad Niyazov was the first post-Soviet president of which nation?
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Q 295 : Which philosopher became engaged to Regine Olsen in 1840?
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Q 296 : The novel "The God of Small Things" won which writer the 1997 Booker Prize?
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Q 297 : Who, in 1973, became the first woman to serve on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee?
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Q 298 : George Washington Goethals oversaw the construction of what engineering feat, completed in 1914?
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Q 299 : In 1991, Khaleda Zia became the first female prime minister of what country?
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Q 300 : "No Place to Be Somebody" earned whom the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for drama, the first black playwright to win?
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Q 301 : Which of these people is not famous as a college basketball coach?
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Q 302 : In 1997, Rosalia Arteaga became the first female president of what country?
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Q 303 : Who was the only three-time Super Bowl MVP, winning in 1982, 1985, and 1990?
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Q 304 : Who became emperor of Japan in 1989?
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Q 305 : Who was the first woman elected to the British House of Commons?
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Q 306 : In 1877, Henry O. Flipper became the first black graduate of what school?
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Q 307 : Anna Leonowens' stint as governess for the eventual Rama V was the basis for what 1951 musical?
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Q 308 : "Liberty Leading the People" is the most famous work by what Romantic painter?
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Q 309 : Which one of these people was not born in 1809?
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Q 310 : What Bourbon king guaranteed religious freedom in France with the 1598 Edict of Nantes?
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Q 311 : What prominent black diplomat won the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating peace in Palestine?
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Q 312 : Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown in what year?
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Q 313 : "The Tale of Genji" is often considered the world's first novel. Who wrote it?
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Q 314 : What British writer created the character Peter Pan?
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Q 315 : The first female U.S. cabinet member was what Secretary of Labor under Franklin Roosevelt?
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Q 316 : What Republican from Massachusetts became, in 1967, the first black Senator since Reconstruction?
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Q 317 : Which of these scientists did not serve as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University?
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Q 318 : Marjorie Gestring and Sammy Lee were known for their prowess in what sport?
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Q 319 : In 1887, Susanna Salter became the first woman mayor in the U.S., by heading what municipality?
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Q 320 : Who immediately succeeded Brian Mulroney as prime minister of Canada in 1993?
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Q 321 : Todor Zhivkov was the longtime Communist dictator of what nation?
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Q 322 : Who became British poet laureate in 1984, twenty-eight years after marrying Sylvia Plath?
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Q 323 : Confederate president Jefferson Davis eloped with the daughter of what eventual U.S. president?
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Q 324 : Mircea Snegur was the first president of what former Soviet republic?
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Q 325 : Which of these people never led Britain's Conservative Party?
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Q 326 : Who, in 1924, became the first British prime minister from the Labor party?
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Q 327 : Former United Nations secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali was born in what country?
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Q 328 : Which one of these people is not a noted movie director?
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Q 329 : Kathy Whitworth and Vijay Singh gained fame for their prowess in what sport?
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Q 330 : Which Nigerian dictator died in office in 1998?
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Q 331 : Who, in 1616, discovered the circulation of the blood?
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Q 332 : Who was the first president of the United Steelworkers of America?
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Q 333 : Daniel Johnson and Robert Bourassa were recent premiers of which Canadian province?
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