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Question 1 : Who was Oscar Wilde?
Correct : An Irish playwright who was jailed for his homosexuality
Wrong : A former leader of the British Labour Party
Wrong : A Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa
Wrong : The last Anglo-Saxon King of England

Question 2 : What famous person said: "Write drunk; edit sober"?
Correct : Ernest Hemingway
Wrong : Leo Tolstoy
Wrong : Plato
Wrong : William Shakespeare

Question 3 : Shortly after 9/11 five people in the U.S. were killed by anthrax. How did the spores reach its victims?
Correct : Via the postal system
Wrong : Through the water supply
Wrong : Through injections
Wrong : Via subway handrails

Question 4 : In what year were the American continents "discovered" by Christopher Columbus?
Correct : 1492
Wrong : 1392
Wrong : 1592
Wrong : 1692

Question 5 : What did the Scottish missionary David Livingstone die from?
Correct : Malaria
Wrong : Yellow Fever
Wrong : Heart attack
Wrong : Drowning

Question 6 : Where did James Cook explore in the 1700's?
Correct : South Pacific
Wrong : Caribbean
Wrong : Siberia
Wrong : Antarctica

Question 7 : During which civil war did the battle of 'Hampton Roads' take place?
Correct : American
Wrong : English
Wrong : Romanian
Wrong : Mexican

Question 8 : Who once famously said 'Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!'?
Correct : Theodore Roosevelt
Wrong : Abraham Lincoln
Wrong : James Buchanan
Wrong : Richard Nixon

Question 9 : Which future Roman emperor conquered Jerusalem causing the destruction of the temple in 70 AD?
Correct : Titus
Wrong : Hadrian
Wrong : Domitian
Wrong : Trajan

Question 10 : What amendment to the United States Constitution gave ex-slaves full citizenship?
Correct : The Fourteenth
Wrong : The Twelfth
Wrong : The First
Wrong : The Twenty-seventh