QUIZ B:
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20th-Century Icons
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1. Whose book, ‘Profiles of Courage’(1956), won a Pulitzer Prize in 1957?
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a. Earnest Hemingway
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b. Douglas MacArthur
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c. John F. Kennedy
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d. Arthur Miller
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2. What action by the British in 1930 caused Mahatma Gandhi to lead thousands of his followers on a march to the sea?
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a. They had threatened to deport several of his relatives
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b. They had put a tax on salt
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c. They had imposed a severe curfew throughout parts of India
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d. They had refused to enter talks on independence
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3. Who paid his first ever visit to Paris on May 20, 1927?
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a. Adolf Hitler
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b. Winston Churchill
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c. Charles De Gaulle
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d. Charles Lindbergh
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4. Which composer wrote ‘Just One of Those Things’ and ‘Begin the Beguine’?
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a. Irving Berlin
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b. George Gershwin
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c. Jerome Kern
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d. Cole Porter
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5. Who is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known as?
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a. Carman Miranda
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b. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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c. Madonna
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d. Eva Peron
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6. Who did Muhammed Ali defeat in Kinshasa, Zaire on October 30, 1974 to regain his World Heavyweight boxing title?
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a. George Foreman
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b. Joe Frazier
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c. Leon Spinks
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d. Larry Holmes
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