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  1. Who got the third-most delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention that chose Hubert Humphrey as Presidential candidate? {George McGovern}
  2. Whose weapon is stored in a rifle case on a shelf in Room 5W of the Judicial and Fiscal and Social Branch of the U.S. National Archives? {Lee Harvey Oswald's}
  3. How many charter members made up the European Economic Community on January 1, 1958? {Six}
  4. What country was Ferdinand Marcos elected president of in 1965? {The Philippines}
  5. What luxury liner developed boiler trouble and was stranded off Bermuda with 1,648 passengers aboard on March 30, 1974? {The Queen Elizabeth II}
  6. What country saw Spyros Kyprianou succeed Archbishop Makarios III as president on August 31, 1977? {Cyprus}
  7. What two countries ended a 31-year state of war by signing a peace treaty on March 26, 1979? {Egypt and Israel}
  8. What was the official cause of death of Lenny Bruce? {A morphine overdose}
  9. Who was the first U.S. president to witness the firing of a Polaris missile? {John F. Kennedy}
  10. Was Lee Harvey Oswald ever charged with the murder of John F. Kennedy? {Yes}
  11. What satellite was used in the first telephone call made by one? {Telstar}
  12. What did a B-47 drop in the back yard of Walter Gregg's Mars Bluff, South Carolina, home on March 11, 1958? {An unarmed nuclear weapon}
  13. What was the third country to have its own orbiting satellite? {Canada}
  14. What year did Pierre Trudeau first become prime minister of Canada? {1968}
  15. What U.S. state saw Governor John Love sign a bill making it the first to legalize abortions other than life-saving therapeutic ones? {Colorado}
  16. What evangelist did Richard Nixon consult in making his vice-presidential decision in 1968? {Billy Graham}
  17. What American playwright was cited for contempt of Congress in 1956? {Arthur Miller}
  18. Who was the last man on the moon? {Gene Cernan}
  19. Which side of the Berlin Wall did Erich Honecker come to power on? {The east}
  20. What union leader did George McGovern consider as a vice-presidential running mate? {Leonard Woodcock}
  21. Who testified that, in hindsight, he should have thrown G. Gordon Liddy out of his office window? {John Mitchell}
  22. What singer's London flat did both Cass Elliott and Keith Moon die in? {Harry Nilsson's}
  23. What war saw the U.S. suffer its one-millionth battle death since 1775? {The Korean War}
  24. What President has Supreme Court nominee Clement Haynsworth Jr. rejected by the Senate? {Richard Nixon}
  25. Who opened the first international section of the Black Panthers in Algiers in 1970? {Eldridge Cleaver}
  26. What was first tested at Eniwetok in the Pacific Ocean in 1954? {An H-bomb}
  27. What university witnessed the Battle of People's Park? {California at Berkeley}
  28. Who did Sam Ervin say was "the most devastating witness I ever heard"? {John Dean}
  29. What crisis put the Russian ships Gagarin and Komiles in the front line of what could have been World War III? {The Cuban Missile Crisis}
  30. How many men have walked on the moon? {Twelve}
  31. Who was sworn in by Chief Justice William Burger on September 22, 1973, as the 56th U.S. secretary of state? {Henry Kissinger}
  32. What singer did Mickey Deans, her fifth husband, find dead when he smashed into her locked London bathroom on June 22, 1969? {Judy Garland}
  33. What country was Bobby Kennedy standing up for to cause Sirhan Sirhan such anguish? {Israel}
  34. What assassin did Jesse Unruh scream out about: "Keep him alive! Don't kill him! We want him alive"? {Sirhan Sirhan}
  35. What Arab country did Idi Amin Dada finally find refuge in? {Saudi Arabia}
  36. Who blurted out while the Manson trial was in progress: "Here is a man who was guilty...of eight murders without reason"? {Richard Nixon}
  37. What country's radicals loved to hurl rocks at Narita Airport? {Japan's}
  38. What prison was opened to tourists in 1973, with former inmates serving as guides? {Alcatraz}
  39. What Washington, D.C., woman noted: "Everybody should rise up and say 'Thank you, Mr. President, for bombing Haiphong'"? {Martha Mitchell}
  40. Which of Charles Manson's victims was eight months pregnant? {Sharon Tate}
  41. How many times was New York City student Lynn Barlow hijacked to Cuba in 1969? {Two}
  42. What terrorist group wreaked havoc at the 1972 Summer Olympics? {Black September}
  43. What former astronaut was a pallbearer at Bobby Kennedy's funeral? {John Glenn}
  44. What did Czechoslovakian student Jan Palach do to himself in Prague in 1969 to protest the Russian occupation? {He self-immolated}
  45. Who accepted Japan's formal surrender to end World War II? {General Douglas MacArthur}
  46. What did the nuclear submarine Guittaro do in 1969 in a San Francisco shipyard? {It sank}
  47. What did physicist Edward Teller suggest in 1969 that it would be feasible to set off on the moon? {A nuclear explosion}
  48. What assassin paid $21.45 for his murder weapon? {Lee Harvey Oswald}
  49. What onetime Westinghouse hypist became President Lyndon Johnson's special assistant for consumer affairs in May, 1967? {Betty Furness}
  50. What did the U.S. and North Vietnam finally agree should be 35 feet in diameter with a green imitation leather top? {The Paris peace table}