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Extraordinary People        

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1.  Who, of the following scientists, is mainly credited with the birth of evolutionary theories?
   Stephen Jay Gould
 Benjamin Franklin
 Charles Darwin
 Carl Sagan
 I don't know
 
2.  Who might we think of every time we pour ourselves a glass of milk?
   Thomas Edison
 Louis Pasteur
 Marie Curie
 Alan Turing
 I don't know
 
3.  Who wrote "Mein Kampf"?
   Karl Marx
 Albert Camus
 Fidel Castro
 Adolf Hitler
 I don't know
 
4.  Who was William Frederick Cody?
   Buffalo Bill
 The Lone Ranger
 Superman
 Abraham Lincoln
 I don't know
 
5.  What happened to Jonah in the Bible?
   Each of his seven wives died from gout
 He had a visionary dream
 He got swallowed by a whale
 He killed his only son
 I don't know
 
6.  What was Achilles' only weakness?
   Gambling
 His heel
 Women
 The back of his head
 I don't know
 
7.  Who was the second son of Adam and Eve?
   Moses
 Cain
 Abel
 Noah
 I don't know
 
8.  Which of the following is not true of Gertrude Stein:
   She dropped out of medical school
 She was a lesbian
 She wrote "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose""
 She lived her whole life in Wisconsin
 I don't know
 
9.  This man (AD 1st century) was an astronomer responsible for the idea that the earth was the center of the universe:
   Nicolaus Copernicus
 Claudius Ptolemy
 Amedeo Modigliani
 Socrates
 I don't know
 
10.  Who is the only U.S. president buried in Washington D.C.?
   Abraham Lincoln
 George Washington
 Woodrow Wilson
 J.F. Kennedy
 I don't know