MATH
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Question: When was the Declaration of Independence signed?
Answer: Aug. 2, 1776
Question. When was gunpowder invented and by whom?
Answer. Historians estimate that as early as 850 A.D., alchemists in China stumbled upon the explosive properties of gunpowder, while seeking an elixir of life.
Question. Who was the 1st President of the US?
Answer. General George Washington
Question: What year was the first iPhone released?
Answer: 2007
BONUS - A review of this musical noted "sacrilege" and said it was "blasphemous," but "its heart is as pure as...a Rodgers and Hammerstein show."
Answer: What is The Book of Mormon?
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1. True.
Question: Who was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire?
Answer: Genghis Khan
Question. Who invented the Worlds first firearm and in what Century?
Answer. 13th century ancestors of the modern firearm had spread from Asia to Europe, where they were further developed as weapons in the form of matchlock, wheel lock and flintlock firearms.
Question. who was the United States 6th President?
Answer. John Quency Adams
Question: What was the acronym commonly used for the 2000 software problem that many thought would cause computers to become inoperable?
Answer: Y2K
Bonus Question. This country’s coat of arms features a palm tree and a 19th-century American sailing ship.
Answer: What is Liberia?
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Question: Who was the first emperor of Rome?
Answer: Augustus
Question. What Century did Firearms arrive in America?
Answer. Early colonists arrived in America in the 15th century, firearm design had advanced significantly and the weapons were routinely included in journeys to the New World.
Question. Which president annexed Hawaii in 1898?
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Question: What year was Facebook created?
Answer: 2004
Bonus Question. This Virginian was the first Secretary of State and the second Vice President.
Answer: Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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1. 12
Question: How old was King Tutankhamun when he died?
Answer: 19
Question. Who was the first Person to developed the system to produce interchangeable rifle parts.
Answer. Eli Whitney, originally famous for inventing the cotton gin in the 1790s, later developed a system to produce interchangeable rifle parts.
Question. Which president first established a doctrine that European intervention in the western hemisphere would be regarded as a threat to American security?
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Question: What year did the internet become available to the public?
Answer: 1993
Bonus Question. Clue: The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting."
Answer: What is algebra?
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Question: The construction of the Colosseum began while which Roman emperor was in power?
Answer: Vespasian
Question. What year did Samuel Colt received a U.S. patent for a handheld pistol?
Answer. In 1836, Samuel Colt received a U.S. patent for a handheld pistol that featured a multi-firing system based on a rotating barrel with multiple chambers that could fire bullets through a lock and spring design.
Question. Which president signed the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railways Act of 1862?
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Question: What year was Nelson Mandela freed from prison?
Answer: 1990
Bonus Question. This right-wing group was named for the 1st victim of the “Cold War,” killed in China in 1945.
Answer: What is the John Birch Society?
Answer. 9
Question: What was the name of the international group formed to maintain world peace after World War I?
Answer: The League of Nations
Question. Who began designing the New Haven-based Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1883
Answer. One of the most acclaimed firearms designer in history, John Moses Browning of Ogden, Utah, began designing for the New Haven-based Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1883 and created a version of the rifle that incorporated a pump action.
Question. Can you list the U.S. Presidents who have no official Wars during their tenure?
Presidents.
John Adams,Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden.
Question: What is the name of the whistleblower who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013?
Answer: Edward Snowden
Bonus Question. He came to power 34 days before FDR and left it 19 days after him.