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1. Who created the first moving assembly line in 1913?

2. What was the stake in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

3. Which hurricane did not cause massive damage to the US in 2005?

4. In which year was South Sudan created as a country?

5. What was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?

6. The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case outlawed what in the US?

7. What country did the 1927 Treaty of Jedda make independent?

8. From 1920 until 1933, what did Prohibition ban in the United States?

9. Who was fired in 1951 by Harry Truman for threatening China with nuclear weapons?

10. Governor William Goebel was assassinated in 1900. Of which state was he governor?

11. What treaty ended World War I?

12. What war took place in 1967?

13. Which of these was a name commonly given to the 1920s?

14. What were the set of anti-Semitic laws passed in Germany in 1935 known as?

15. How long did the Wright Brothers first flight last?

16. The floppy disk was invented in which year?

17. What did Harry S. Truman call his program of reforms?

18. What offices were broken into at the Watergate building?

19. Disposable contact lenses were invented in which year?

20. What was Lady Diana's maiden name before marrying Prince Charles?

21. What major military action of the Vietnam War occurred in 1968?

22. The Human Genome Project was declared completed at 99% in which year?

23. Which US federal government program was enacted in 1965?