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True or False: D.B. Cooper demanded more than a quarter of a million dollars as a ransom.
False
True or False: an unwed, soon-to-be, teenage mother is considered a less than ideal candidate to be the face of a political campaign as opposed to someone with more experience in the field.
True
In his lifetime, MLK gave two speeches in front of what memorial in Washington D.C.?
The Lincoln Memorial
The name of the department store where lunch counter sit-ins began, shares part of its name with the fiber that is shaved off of a sheep. What is the name of the fiber?
Wool
What branch of the U.S. military is typically under the control of state governors not the president?
The National Guard
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted from Dec 5, 1955 to Dec 20, 1956, and was set in motion by the actions of what famous civil rights activist?
Rosa Parks
What is the cash prize for winning any of the six different Nobel Awards?
11,000,000 Swedish Krona (pronounced Kroo-nuh)
$1,035,000 USD
Jim Crow laws of the South said that you had to take a literacy test in order to vote unless you could prove that you had completed which of the following levels of school: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, or College?
Elementary School
The movie Remember the Titans depicts the reaction to the forced integration of schools throughout the country in the period of the late 1950s to the end of the 1970s. How did parents react to integration in the movie?
They protested loudly and tried to prevent the integration from happening.
The Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896 was a major setback for the cause of Civil Rights, and ended up codifying segregation in U.S. law for how long?
Almost 60 years
At the age of 40, Mr. Bergstrom is one year younger than the discovery of what famous wreck?
The Titanic
How were authorities able to determine that the money found at Tina Bar in 1980 was indeed part of the ransom money given to D.B. Cooper?
The "serial numbers" on each bill.