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<h1>1936</h1><p>A leap year. Great. What we needed. One more day.</p>
<p>Quiz created by: <a href="http://www.amiwrong.com/authors/billgraves.shtml">Bill Graves</a></p><br>1. Who became King of Britain in January?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) George VI</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Edward VIII</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) George V</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) John Paul George IV</div>
<br>2. What was the first synthetically produced radioactive element?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Strontium</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Plutonium</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Krypton</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Radium</div>
<br>3. The Hoover Dam lies on the border of which 2 American states?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Colorado & Wyoming</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) New Mexico & Utah</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Arizona & California</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Arizona & Nevada</div>
<br>4. Bruno Hauptman was executed for kidnapping & killing the son of whom?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Franklin Roosevelt</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Herbert Hoover</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Amelia Earhardt</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Charles Lindbergh</div>
<br>5. Which nation took over Eritrea, Ethiopia & Somaliland?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) United States</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Germany</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Britain</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Italy</div>
<br>6. Who knocked out Joe Louis?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Max Schmeling</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Max Baer</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Rocky Graziano</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Rocky Marciano</div>
<br>7. General Francisco Franco led nationalist troops in which nation's civil war?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Italy</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Luxembourg</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Mexico</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Spain</div>
<br>8. Who won 4 track & field gold medals at the Summer Olympics?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Lutz Long</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Mark Spitz</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Jesse Owens</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Carl Lewis</div>
<br>9. What animal went extinct?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Dodo</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Cuckoo</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Tasmanian Devil</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Tasmanian Tiger</div>
<br>10. Which team won the World Series?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Brooklyn Dodgers</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) New York Mets</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) New York Giants</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) New York Yankees</div>
<br>11. Who won the U.S. presidential election?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Herbert Hoover</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Alf Landon</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Franklin Roosevelt</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) J. Edgar Hoover</div>
<br>12. Who became monarch in Britain in December?
<div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) George VI</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Elizabeth II</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) Edward VIII</div><div style="padding-left: 20px;">(#) John Paul George IV</div>
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