1. What year did radio icon Howard Stern start a job at radio station WNBC?

a. 1984
b. !1982
c. 1995
d. 1985

2. When was Elvis Presley born?

a. July 18, 1940
b. December 13, 1931
c. !January 8, 1935
d. April 17, 1938

3. If he was still alive, in what year would Elvis Presley celebrate his 100th
birthday?
a. 2045
b. 2040
c. 2030
d. !2035

4. Which famous New York Yankees outfielder did Marilyn Monroe marry?
a. Mason Williams
b. !Joe DiMaggio
c. Tino Martinez
d. Babe Ruth

5. Nikki Diamond portrayed which Gladiator in the 1992 TV show

quot;Gladiatorsquot;?
a. Jet
b. !Scorpio
c. Falcon
d. Nightshade

6. Gabe Newell was born in which year?

a. 1970
b. !1962
c. 1960
d. 1972

7. Which TV chef wrote an autobiography titled quot;Humble Piequot;?

a. Ainsley Harriott
b. Jamie Oliver
c. !Gordon Ramsay
d. Antony Worrall Thompson

8. What year was O.J. Simpson aquitted of his murder charges?

a. 1992
b. !1995
c. 1996
d. 1991

9. Which television show has Dan Gheesling been on?

 a. Survivor
b. The Bachelor
c. !Big Brother
d. Jeopardy

1. What event marked the start of World War II?

a. Invasion of Normandy 1944
b. Battle of Britain 1940
c. !Invasion of Poland 1939
d. Invasion of Russia 1942

2. What historical event was Tchaikovsky039;s 1812 Overture referencing?

a. The American War of 1812
b. The Charge of the Light Brigade Crimean War
c. The Russian Revolution
d. !The Napoleonic Wars

3. In World War II, Hawker Typhoons served in the Pacific theater.

a. True
b. !False

4. The Kingdom of Prussia briefly held land in Estonia.

a. !False
b. True

5. When did Spanish Peninsular War start?

a. 1806
b. 1809
c. !1808
d. 1810

6. Which of the following African countries was most successful in resisting

colonization?
a. Namibia
b. Congo
c. !Ethiopia
d. Cocirc;te drsquo;Ivoire

7. Which famous world leader is famed for the saying, quot;Let them eat cakequot;,
yet is rumored that heshe never said it at all?
a. !Marie Antoinette
b. Czar Nicholas II
c. Elizabeth I
d. Henry VIII

8. Which modern day country is the region that was known as Phrygia in ancient
times?
a. Egypt
b. !Turkey
 c. Greece
d. Syria

9. The USS Missouri BB63 last served in the Korean War.

a. True
b. !False

10. What year did World War I begin?

a. 1919
b. 1925
c. !1914
d. 1905

11. Which day did World War I begin?

a. !July 28
b. January 28
c. June 28
d. April 28

12. Which of the following Physicists aided Nazi Germany in their production of a
nuclear weapon?
a. Albert Einstein
b. John von Neumann
c. Max Planck
d. !Werner Heisenberg

13. Which of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?

a. Turkish bath
b. Kennel
c. Squash court
d. !Fainting room

1. Which naval battle was considered the turning point of the Pacific Ocean Theater
during World War 2?
a. Attack on Truk Island
b. Attack on Pearl Harbor
c. Battle of the Coral Sea
d. !Battle of Midway

2. List the following Iranic empires in chronological order:

a. Achaemenid, Median, Parthian, Sassanid
b. Median, Achaemenid, Sassanid, Parthian
c. Achaemenid, Median, Sassanid, Parthian
d. !Median, Achaemenid, Parthian, Sassanid

3. In which year did the Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq occur?

a. 1988
b. 1986
c. !1990
 d. 1992

4. United States President Ronald Reagan was the first president to appoint a woman
to the Supreme Court.
a. False
b. !True

5. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.
a. False
b. !True

6. What did the abbreviation quot;RMSquot; stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?
a. Royal Majesty Service
b. !Royal Mail Ship
c. Regulated Maelstrom Sensor
d. Regular Maritime Schedule

7. Toussaint Louverture led a successful slave revolt in which country?

a. France
b. Cuba
c. !Haiti
d. United States

8. What was the name commonly given to the ancient trade routes that connected the
East and West of Eurasia?
a. Salt Road
b. !Silk Road
c. Clay Road
d. Spice Road

9. Which of these 1900s tanks were designed and built BEFORE the others?
a. !Renault FT
b. Panzer IV
c. M4 Sherman
d. Cromwell

10. In what year did the Great Northern War, between Russia and Sweden, end?
a. !1721
b. 1726
c. 1727
d. 1724

11. Which is the hull NO. of the Fletcher class destroyer Fletcher?
a. !DD445
b. DD992
c. DD446
d. DD444