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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}
  51. What did Ronald Reagan become in 1962? {A Republican}
  52. What Vietnam War event did Michael Bernhardt refuse to take part in, earning him the 1970 Ethical Humanist Award? {The My Lai massacre}
  53. How many reporters did Howard Hughes hold a telephone interview with on January 7, 1972, to deny any association with Clifford Irving? {Seven}
  54. Who did Jimmy Hoffa describe as "a young, dim-witted, curly-headed smart aleck...a ruthless little monster"? {Bobby Kennedy}
  55. What resort was Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnaped at? {Lake Tahoe}
  56. What Broadway columnist was found dead in her apartment after an 18-month investigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination? {Dorothy Kilgallen}
  57. What heir disappeared in New Guinea in 1961? {Michael Rockefeller}
  58. What radical group's slogan was: "Death to the Fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people"? {The Symbionese Liberation Army's}
  59. What company was robbed of $2,775,395.12 in Boston on January 17, 1950? {Brink's}
  60. Who successfully defended Doctor Carl Coppolino against a 1963 murder charge? {F. Lee Bailey}
  61. Who was "as excited as if...he had found a Communist on the faculty of Harvard" when he told Bobby Kennedy: "The President's dead"? {J. Edgar Hoover}
  62. What did Queen Elizabeth make The Beatles on October 26, 1965? {Members of the British Empire}
  63. What city was Jimmy Hoffa last seen in? {Detroit}
  64. What would-be assassin was quoted as asking: "How much do you think I'll get for my autobiography?"? {Arthur Bremer}
  65. What ship was seized on January 23, 1968, while on a surveillance mission called Operation Clickbeetle? {The Pueblo}
  66. Who did Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf prevent from shooting Gerald Ford in 1975? {Squeaky Fromme}
  67. How many Americans did the Canadian embassy in Tehran hide from the Ayotallah's hordes in Operation Houseguest? {Six}
  68. What country did the Canine Defense League snarl at in 1957 over a space shot? {The Soviet Union}
  69. Who were the first two people indicted under the U.S. law making it a federal crime to attempt to kill the President? {Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore}
  70. What Greensboro, North Carolina, chain outlet was the target of the first lunch-counter sit-in, on February 1, 1960? {Woolworth's}
  71. Who handed out cufflinks depicting the rock of Gibraltar to supporters following his 1966 gubernatorial campaign? {Nelson Rockefeller}
  72. Who was the only survivor of a June, 1964, plane crash outside Springfield, Massachusetts? {Teddy Kennedy}
  73. Who was the last U.S. vice-president not to be replaced upon his accession to the Presidency? {Lyndon Johnson}
  74. Who got stoned in Venezuela during a 1958 goodwill tour? {Richard Nixon}
  75. What did Chinese youths form on August 18, 1966, to combat Western influence? {The Red Guard}
  76. Who have the Hell's Angels been out to kill ever since Altamont? {Mick Jagger}
  77. What Chief Justice swore John F. Kennedy into office? {Earl Warren}
  78. Who said: "Muriel and I and our 'plain folks' entourage were no match for...Jackie Kennedy and the other Kennedy women"? {Hubert Humphrey}
  79. What city saw Kitty Genovese stabbed repeatedly on Friday, March 13, 1964, while 38 people watched and did nothing? {New York}
  80. Where did 58 of 71 planes hijacked in 1971 go, leading Johnny Carson to say one airline "changed its name to Up, Up, and Ole"? {Cuba}
  81. Who went around the world in 80 minutes on February 20, 1962? {John Glenn}
  82. What city did John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev confer in on June 3, 1961? {Vienna}
  83. What country's occupation did the Treaty of San Francisco end on September 8, 1951? {Japan's}
  84. Whose trial was the scene of the first courtroom verdict to be telecast, on March 14, 1964? {Jack Ruby's}
  85. What did the Cuban government stop supplying to the Guantanamo naval base in February, 1964? {Water}
  86. What nuclear submarine completed a submerged circumnavigation of the globe in 1960? {The Triton}
  87. Who told reporters after his inquest: "The ultimate findings of the judge's report are not justified, and I reject them"? {Teddy Kennedy}
  88. What city saw Arkansas governor Orval Faubus order the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling at Central High School? {Little Rock}
  89. What did ARVN stand for? {Army of the Republic of Vietnam}
  90. Who did Richard Nixon appoint to head a special prosecution unit investigating Watergate in the spring of 1973? {Archibald Cox}
  91. How much money constituted Patty Hearst's bail bond in November, 1976? {$1,500,000}
  92. Who succeeded Archibald Cox as special Watergate prosecutor? {Leon Jaworski}
  93. What blonde Capitol Hill secretary admitted, in August, 1976: "I can't type. I can't file. I can't even answer the phone"? {Elizabeth Ray}
  94. What religious observance did the Egyptians launch their ill-fated offensive on in 1973? {Yom Kippur}
  95. What ill-fated ocean liner's call letters were ICEH? {The Andrea Doria's}
  96. What war was dubbed the "blintzkrieg"? {The 1967 Arab-Israeli War}
  97. What famed debate took place during the Sokolniki summit meeting? {The Kitchen Debate}
  98. What self-professed Third World country was the first to get the bomb? {The People's Republic of China}
  99. Who did the U.S. Senate condemn on January 2, 1954? {Joseph McCarthy}
  100. What tiny piece of evidence got the Watergate burglars caught? {Adhesive tape}