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Q1. Who was the head of Nazi propaganda during World War II who committed suicide with his family in 1945?

A
Walter Richard Rudolf Hess
B
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
C
Heinrich Himmler
D
Paul Joseph Goebbels
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Q2. The actor John Wayne was known by what nickname?

A
The Peer
B
The Earl
C
The Duke
D
The Count
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Q3. Who ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 presidential election by launching a campaign against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, a member of his own party?

A
Richard Nixon
B
Edward Kennedy
C
Gerald Ford
D
George H W Bush
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Q4. Who was King in England when Daniel Defoe published "Robinson Crusoe" and Jonathan Swift published "Gulliver's Travels"?

A
George III
B
George II
C
George I
D
George IV
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Q5. Who spearheaded the design and development for sending the first satellite into orbit?

A
Sergei Lavrov
B
Sergei Korolev
C
Dr. William Hayward Pickering
D
Pierre Auger
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Q6. In May 1909, Oscar Slater was sentenced to death for murder and released in November 1927 with, in 1928, £6,000 compensation. People who campaigned for his release included William Roughead (who published "Trial of Oscar Slater" in 1910), William Park (who published "The Truth about Oscar Slater" in 1927) and which other author who published "The Case of Oscar Slater" in 1912?

A
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
B
Charles Dickens
C
Mark Twain
D
Jane Austen
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Q7. What play does the character Blanche DuBois appear in?

A
School for Women
B
Death of a Salesman
C
A Streetcar Named Desire
D
Noises Off
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