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Hard People II
Allen Lam
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Copyright 1996, Softdisk Publishing
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People II
Hard
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$QUEST
Winston Churchill won a Nobel prize in 1953 in what field?
Literature
Peace
Medicine
Physics
Mathematics
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$QUEST
Who is the baseball player that had a 0.367 lifetime batting average and was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936?
Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Jerome Herman Dean
Hank Aaron
Pete Rose
Reggie Jackson
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$QUEST
Who was the comedian that played in "My Little Chickadee" and "The Big Broadcast of 1938"?
W.C. Fields
Steve Martin
Abbott and Costello
Charlie Chaplin
Bing Crosby
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$QUEST
Who took over the FBI as director in 1924?
J. Edgar Hoover
John D. Rockefellow
George Sutherland
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
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$QUEST
Who of the following is not a chess player?
Bob Cousy
Bobby Fischer
Boris Spassky
Anatoly Karpov
Mikhail Botvinnik
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$QUEST
Who was the Yankee baseball manager in 1949 & 1959 known as "Casey"?
Charles Dillon Stengel
Pete Rose
Joe McCarthy
Hank Aaron
Ty Cobb
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$QUEST
Which of the following is not a writer of science fiction?
T. S. Eliot
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Ray Bradbury
Damon Knight
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$QUEST
This literature Nobel prize winner wrote the poem "The Waste Land".
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Ellison
Dylan Thomas
Ernest Hemingway
William Butler Yeats
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$QUEST
Which of the following is not a conductor?
Boris Spassky
Sir Thomas Beecham
Leopold Stokowski
Arturo Toscanini
James Levine
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$QUEST
Who is the Nobel Prize winning physicist who discovered the exclusion principle?
Wolfgang Pauli
Steven Hawking
Richard Feyman
Issac Newton
John B. Watson
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$QUEST
Which U.S. composer and pianist is known for the songs in "Lady Be Good", "Rhapsody in Blue", and "Porgy & Bess"?
George Gershwin
Steven Sondheim
Sir Thomas Beecham
Hank Williams
Jean Harlow
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$QUEST
Which is a Nobel Prize winning physicist famous for his discovery of the quantum theory?
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Plank
Marie Curie
Linus Pauling
T. S. Eliot
Alan Hodgkin
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$QUEST
Which of the following was a Supreme Court Justice?
George Sutherland
John Dillinger
Stan Laurel
Joseph Goldstein
Saul Bellow
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$QUEST
What was President Richard Nixon's middle name?
Milhous
Kenedy
Eisenberg
Franklin
Arthur
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$QUEST
Who wrote the "Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
O. Henry
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
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$QUEST
The painting "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte", a classic example of pointillism, was painted by:
George Seurat
Vincent van Gogh
Paul Cezanne
Paul Signac
Edouard Manet
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first women:
in space
chess grand master
to fly
Nobel Prize winner
Olympic Games medalist
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$QUEST
This Swedish film director produced the films "The Seventh Seal", "Persona", and "The Virgin Spring".
Ingmar Bergman
Bernardo Bertolucci
James Levine
Arturo Toscanini
Woody Allen
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Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
Sally Ride
Alexis Carrel
Mary Lou Retton
Valentina Tereshkova
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$QUEST
What is the full name of American pop singer and song writer formerly known as Prince?
Rogers Nelson Prince
Paul Clemens Prince
Milhous Samuel Prince
Agassy Richards Prince
Richard Earl Prince
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$QUEST
Nat Turner was...
an American slave who led a slave revolt
another name for Santa Claus in other countries
the inventor of the cotton gin
a Supreme Court Justice
American ambassador to Britain
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$QUEST
Stephen Wozniak is most noted as being:
one of the founders of Apple Computer Company
the inventor of the artificial heart
the pioneer of the heart transplant procedure
the astronomer to discover the first pulsar
the first to fly across the Pacific alone
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Who developed the treatment for syphilis?
Paul Ehrlich
Edward Jenner
Niels Kai Jerne
Douglas Reye
Jonas Edward Salk
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$QUEST
Which of the following was not an explorer?
Douglas Reye
Vasco Balboa
Christopher Columbus
Rodrigo de Bastidas
William Clark
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$QUEST
Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Edison
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
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$QUEST
Alexander Fleming discovered:
penicillin
smallpox
AIDS
aspirin
chemotherapy
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$QUEST
The full name of American poet T.S. Eliot is:
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Timothy Steven Eliot
Ty Stan Eliot
Tomas Stein Eliot
Tran Samuel Eliot
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$QUEST
Who wrote "Seize the Day", "Henderson the Rain King", and "Mr. Sammler's Planet"?
Saul Bellow
T.S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
Winston Churchill
George Bernard Shaw
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$QUEST
Who was the actress that was in "Night after Night", "Diamond Lil", "My Little Chickadee", and "Every Day's a Holiday"?
Mae West
Jane Fonda
Barbara Streisand
Shirly Temple
Greta Carbo
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$QUEST
Who was the author of "Farewell to Arms", "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and "The Sun Also Rises"?
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Steven King
Isaac Asimov
Stephen William Hawking
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$QUEST
Who was the Swiss psychiatrist that founded analytical psychology and originated the idea of the collective unconscious?
Carl Gustav Jung
Sigmund Freud
Sherlock Holmes
John Steinbeck
Guy de Maupasant
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$QUEST
Who is a U.S. general whose divisions swept across France in World War II?
George Patton
Marlon Brando
Orson Wells
Mike Todd
Christopher Walken
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$QUEST
Who is the author who wrote "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings"?
J.R.R. Tolkien
George Bernard Shaw
Bernardo Bertolucci
T. S. Eliot
John Steinbeck
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$QUEST
Which U.S. president had the motto: "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
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$QUEST
Mario Andretti is a U.S. professional...
automobile racer
horse jockey
ice hockey player
baseball player
football player
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$QUEST
Who was the first African American to have his/her own network television show?
Nat King Cole
Nat Turner
Jimi Hendrix
Arsenio Hall
Oprah Winfrey
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$QUEST
This Blues singer and guitarist who won a Grammy Award for the song "The Thrill is Gone" in 1970.
B. B. King
Nat King Cole
Jimi Hendrix
Jim Morrison
Bessie Smith
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Which of the following was not a member of the Supreme Court?
Robert Dole
Sandra Day O'Connor
William Rehnquist
Clarence Thomas
David Souter
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$QUEST
The first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court was:
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Bullock
Sally Ride
Amelia Earhart
Dorthy Hamilton
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$QUEST
This American actor appeared in "The Maltese Falcon", "Casablanca", and "The African Queen".
Humphrey Bogart
Paul Newman
Jack Benny
B.B. King
Burt Reynolds
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