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1. Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War?
a. Winston Churchill
b. Stanley Baldwin
c. !Neville Chamberlain
d. Clement Attlee
2. Which letter do you need to have on a European driver license in order to ride
any motorbikes?
a. X
b. !A
c. D
d. B
3. George W. Bush lost the popular vote in the 2004 United States presidential
election.
a. !False
b. True
4. One of Barack Obama039;s United States presidential campaign slogan039;s was

quot;Yes We Canquot;.
a. False
b. !True
5. What is the name of Niccolograve; Machiavelli039;s work that argued effective

leaders needed to crush their opponents at all costs?
a. Love039;s Labours Lost
b. The Rape of Lucrece
c. Will to Power
d. !The Prince
6. Who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016?

a. David Cameron
b. Tony Blair
c. Boris Johnson
d. !Theresa May
7. Who was elected leader of the UK Labour Party in September 2015?

a. Theresa May
b. !Jeremy Corbyn
c. David Cameron
d. Ed Miliband
8. George Clinton, Vice President of the United States 18051812, is an ancestor of

President Bill Clinton.
a. !False
b. True
9. Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union?
a. !Nikita Khrushchev
b. Boris Yeltsin
c. Leonid Brezhnev
d. Mikhail Gorbachev
10. What was the personal nickname of the 40th Governor of the US State Louisiana,
Huey Long?
a. The Champ
b. !The Kingfish
c. The Hoot Owl
d. The Oracle
11. In June 2017, Saudi Arabia and Egypt broke off ties with which country over its
supposed support for terrorism?
a. Russia
b. !Qatar
c. United States of America
d. Bahrain
12. What are the first names of the first father and son pair that were both Prime
Ministers of Canada?
a. John and Louis
b. Brian and Pierre
c. Brian and Justin
d. !Justin and Pierre
1. What are the base station trackers used for the HTC Vive called?
a. Constellation
b. Trackers
c. !Lighthouse
d. Motion
2. The term quot;batteryquot; to describe an electrical storage device was coined

by?
a. Luigi Galvani
b. Nikola Tesla
c. Alessandro Volta
d. !Benjamin Franklin
3. Which company designed the quot;Betamaxquot; video cassette format?

a. LG
b. Panasonic
c. Fujitsu
d. !Sony
4. The Western Electric Model 500 telephone uses tone dialing to dial phone
numbers.
a. True
b. !False
5. Microphones can be used not only to pick up sound, but also to project sound
similar to a speaker.
a. False
b. !True
6. When was the Tamagotchi digital pet released?

a. 1990
b. 1989
c. 1992
d. !1996
7. In what year was the Oculus Rift revealed to the public through a Kickstarter
campaign?
a. !2012
b. 2013
c. 2010
d. 2011
8. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?

a. 1992
b. 1972
c. !1982
d. 1962
9. When was the iPhone released?

a. !2007
b. 2004
c. 2006
d. 2005
10. Who built the first laser?

a. Nikola Tesla
b. !Theodore Harold Maiman
c. Jack Kilby
d. Edith Clarke
11. What round is a classic AK47 chambered in?

a. 5.56x45mm
b. 5.45x39mm
c. 7.62x51mm
d. !7.62x39mm
12. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?

a. 7.62
b. 7.62x51mm
c. .308
d. !.3006
13. Out of all of the NASA Space Shuttles, which 2 have been destroyed in
disasters?
a. None of the Above
b. Discovery and Endeavour
c. !Challenger and Columbia
d. Enterprise and Atlantis
1. When was the play quot;Macbethquot; written?

a. !1606
b. 1605
c. 1723
d. 1628
2. Which of these musicals won the Tony Award for Best Musical?
a. !Rent
b. The Color Purple
c. Newsies
d. American Idiot
3. Who is the musical director for the award winning musical quot;Hamiltonquot;?
a. LinManuel Miranda
b. Leslie Odom Jr.
c. Renee EliseGoldberry
d. !Alex Lacamoire
4. In Jeff Wayne039;s Musical Version of War of the Worlds, the chances of anything
coming from Mars are...
a. A trillion to one
b. A billion to one
c. A hundred to one
d. !A million to one
5. Who serves as the speaker of the prologue in Shakespeare039;s Romeo and Juliet?
a. Montague
b. !Chorus
c. Refrain
d. Capulet
6. Who played quot;Charlie Pricequot; in the musical quot;Kinky Bootsquot; on

Broadway in New York from May 26th Aug 6th 2017?
a. Tom Cruise
b. !Brendon Urie
c. Dallon Weekes
d. Ed Sheeren
7. Which Shakespeare play features the stage direction quot;Enter a messenger, with
two heads and a handquot;?
a. !Titus Andronicus
b. Macbeth
c. King Lear
d. Othello
8. Who played Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway
run of Hamilton?
a. Wayne Brady
b. Javier Muntilde;oz
c. !Daveed Diggs
d. LinManuel Miranda
9. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical quot;Catsquot; is based off a book of poems
written by which author?
a. Emily Dickenson
b. Andrew Lloyd Webber
c. Robert Frost
d. !T.S. Elliot

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1. Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War?

4. One of Barack Obama039;s United States presidential campaign slogan039;s was

5. What is the name of Niccolograve; Machiavelli039;s work that argued effective

6. Who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in July 2016?

7. Who was elected leader of the UK Labour Party in September 2015?

8. George Clinton, Vice President of the United States 18051812, is an ancestor of

2. The term quot;batteryquot; to describe an electrical storage device was coined

3. Which company designed the quot;Betamaxquot; video cassette format?

6. When was the Tamagotchi digital pet released?

8. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?

9. When was the iPhone released?

10. Who built the first laser?

11. What round is a classic AK47 chambered in?

12. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?

1. When was the play quot;Macbethquot; written?

6. Who played quot;Charlie Pricequot; in the musical quot;Kinky Bootsquot; on

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