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Answer
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What does the E stand for in V-E day?
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Europe
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In what movie did Sam play the song "As Time Goes By"?
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Casablanca
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In what city did Anne Frank hide?
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Amsterdam
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Who said "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat"?
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Winston Churchill
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What film genre was exemplified by "Double Indemnity" and "The Maltese Falcon"?
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Film Noir
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Who was assassinated in New Delhi in 1948?
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Mahatma Gandhi
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What French fashion designer and perfumer was suspected of being a Nazi spy?
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Coco Chanel
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In what French region would you find Omaha, Juno, and Gold beaches?
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Normandy
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What new country was led by David Ben-Gurion?
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Israel
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At what university did J.R.R. Tolkien teach?
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Oxford
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What was the name of the American and British effort to develop an atomic bomb?
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Manhattan Project
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Who directed "Citizen Kane"?
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Orson Welles
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Who wrote the play "Death of a Salesman"?
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Arthur Miller
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What name was given to Japanese suicide pilots?
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Kamikaze
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What American program gave massive amounts of aid to help rebuild Europe?
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Marshall Plan
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What would you find on Carmen Miranda's hat?
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Fruit
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What bebopping saxophonist was known as "Bird"?
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Charlie Parker
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What musical featured the songs "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Bali Ha'i"?
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South Pacific
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To what island did Chiang Kai-shek flee?
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Taiwan
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What brutal leader was called "Uncle Joe" in an attempt to soften his image?
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Joseph Stalin
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more so than the dull history books depicting the era.
I wrote a paper about Bird and Dizzy Gillespie for History of Music in high school.
There's a good book about it. "Useful idiots" often end up the victims of history.
Great quiz if you believe in our false History.