Question
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Answer
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What ship sank after hitting an iceberg?
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RMS Titanic
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What canal was completed in 1914?
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Panama Canal
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What epidemic killed more than 1% of the world's population?
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Spanish Flu
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In what empire was there a genocide against Armenians, Greeks, and Syriac Christians?
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Ottoman Empire
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What then-illegal practice was advocated by Margaret Sanger?
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Birth Control
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Who was assassinated in Sarajevo?
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Franz Ferdinand
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What communist faction came to power in Russia?
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Bolshevik
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Who was President of the United States for most of the decade?
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Woodrow Wilson
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What "lost" city of the Incas was rediscovered?
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Machu Picchu
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What wrote the play "Pygmalion"?
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George Bernard Shaw
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What ballet by Igor Stravinsky shocked audiences when it premiered in 1913?
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The Rite of Spring
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What Native American athlete won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon?
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Jim Thorpe
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What movie by D.W. Griffith glorified the Ku Klux Klan?
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The Birth of a Nation
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What yellow-brown chemical weapon was used, first by the Germans, but later by the Allies?
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Mustard Gas
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What oil baron became the first dollar billionaire?
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John D. Rockefeller
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What treaty officially ended WWI between Germany and the Allies?
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Treaty of Versailles
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What song featured the lyrics "from glen to glen, and down the mountain side"?
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Danny Boy
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What Polish/French woman won a Nobel Prize for chemistry?
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Marie Curie
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What was the nickname of pilot Manfred von Richthofen?
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The Red Baron
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What British adventurer fought in the Arab Revolt?
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T. E. Lawrence
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