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- What city's 1983 crime commission listed
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- 1,081 unsolved mob murders since 1919?Chicago's
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- What oil company did Chevron buy for more
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- than $13 billion in 1984?Gulf Oil Corporation
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- Who did "Fortune" magazine claim was the
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- world's richest woman in 1987?Queen Elizabeth II
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- What country imported $700 million worth of
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- Iranian oil during the summer of 1987?The U.S.
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- How many U.S. states legally allowed
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- cockfighting in 1987?Five
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- What country allowed its Baptist Union to
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- import 20,000 Bibles and hymn books in 1987?The Soviet Union
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- What dropped 508.32 points on October 19,
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- 1987?The Dow Jones Industrial Average
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- How many men did Bernhard Goetz shoot?Four
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- Who was born last - Jessica Hahn, Fawn Hall
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- or Donna Rice?Jessica Hahn
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- What name was shared by all three candidates
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- for the South Korean presidency in 1987?Kim
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- What Reagan staff member's weight problems
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- earned him the nickname "The Heifer"?Howard Baker's
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- What magnate spent $2 million dredging a
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- channel to accommodate his 282-foot yacht?Donald Trump
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- What kind of weapon did James Barrett Drake
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- try to hijack an Air Canada jet with in 1987?An ax
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- What South Pacific country celebrated its
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- 200th year of white settlement in 1988?Australia
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- What troubled U.S. automaker's British
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- subsidiary was renamed Talbot in 1980?Chrysler's
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- What was the world's largest debtor nation at
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- the end of 1988?The United States
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- What do stock market vets call October 19,
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- 1987?
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- Black Monday
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- Whose 1,000th day as a hostage was December
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- 10, 1987?Terry Anderson's
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- What country did Vietnam officials confirm it
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- lost 50,000 invaders in?Kampuchea (Cambodia)
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- Who said in 1988: "The Soviet people want ...
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- full-blooded and unconditional democracy"?Mikhail Gorbachev
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- What scandal was the Tower Commission chosen
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- to investigate?The Iran-Contra scandal
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- What year saw the Dow Jones Industrial
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- Average hit 2,000 for the first time?1987
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- What year marked the bicentennial of the
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- French Revolution?1989
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- What magazine is former Secretary of Defense
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- Caspar Weinberger publisher of?"Forbes"
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- What Latin leader was accused of selling U.S.
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- secrets to Cuba and the Soviet Union in 1987?Manuel Antonio Noriega
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- What former U.S. president blew out 75
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- birthday candles on July 14, 1988?Gerald Ford
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- What U.S. city endured more gang murders in
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- 1988 than all the homicides in all of Europe?Los Angeles
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- What widow said no to major involvement in
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- Philippine politics, on September 4, 1983?Corazon Aquino
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- What's the first grade in which Georgia
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- school kids start receiving sex education?Grade One
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- What country did Iraq accuse of supplying
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- Iran with arms, way back in July, 1983?The United States
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- What president's autographed photo was worth
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- $350 in 1988?Ronald Reagan's
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- Who called Ronald Reagan's programs "voodoo
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- economics" in April, 1980?George Bush
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- What country builds Silkworm missiles?China
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- What does the U.S. Surgeon General refer to
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- as "STDs"?Sexually transmitted diseases
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- Who admitted, fifty years after the fact: "My
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- compass froze. I guess I flew the wrong way"?Wrong-Way Corrigan
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- What country did Pope John Paul II ask in
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- 1983 to abolish martial law?Poland
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- Who introduced Teddy Kennedy at the 1988
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- Democratic National Convention?John Kennedy Jr.
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- What Charles Manson devotee was sent to a
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- women's prison in Marianna, Florida, in 1988?Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
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- What country announced the results of the
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- largest census in history in 1982?China
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- Who angered Israel by according Yasir Arafat
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- a private audience in 1982?Pope John Paul II
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- Who amassed one percent of the vote at Iowa's
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- 1988 Democratic Presidential Primary?Gary Hart
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- What U.S. agency finally caught up with the
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- Reverend Sun Myung Moon in 1982?The Internal Revenue Service
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- What Greek island did Michael Dukakis'
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- father leave to seek his fortune in 1912?Lesbos
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- Who once asked the free world to "leave
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- Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history"?Ronald Reagan
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- What city saw 241 Marines killed just two
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- days before 1900 of them stormed Grenada?
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- Beirut
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- Who began steering the Soviet ship of state
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- after Yuri Andropov dropped off?Konstantin Chernenko
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- What organization was outlawed in Poland in
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- 1981?Solidarity
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- What was being processed in the 19 jungle
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- labs raided by Colombian cops in March, 1984?Cocaine
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- What country was the world's biggest lender
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- at the end of the 1980s?Japan
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- Which country invaded the other first in 1980
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- - Iran or Iraq?Iraq
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- What drug brought huge riches to former
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- Colombian TV and whisky smuggler Fabio Ochoa?Cocaine
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- What was the first independent labor union in
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- the Soviet bloc?Solidarity
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- What country did Ronald Reagan claim was the
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- victim of a Sandinista "invasion" in 1988?Honduras
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- What "first" was achieved when Lee Roy Young
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- Jr. was sworn in as a Texas Ranger in 1988?The first black Texas Ranger
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- What's the FBI sting name "Abscam" short for?Arab scam
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- Who did Jimmy Carter hope would arrive home
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- on his last full day in office?The American hostages in Iran
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- What U.S. city was the first to aid blind
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- tourists with Braille maps?Washington, D.C.
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- What Pole did some 1.5 million Zaireans flock
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- to see in 1980?Pope John Paul II
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- What two nations went to war in 1980 over the oil-rich province of Khuzistan?Iran and Iraq
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- What kind of plants did the U.S. Supreme
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- Court give states the power to ban in 1983?Nuclear power plants
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- Who called the assassination of Benigno
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- Aquino a "communist rub-out job"?Ferdinand Marcos
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- What group did the Boland Amendment nix
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- covert aid to?The Contras
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- What river's water flow was the greatest in
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- the U.S. in June of the hot summer of '88?The Columbia's
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- What gift did Palm Springs mayor Sonny Bono
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- take to Ed Koch on a 1988 visit to New York?A palm tree
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- What Latin leader's not-so-perfect complexion
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- earned him the nickname "The Pineapple"?Manuel Antonio Noriega's
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- What Marxist country has often closed down
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- its only opposition newspaper, "La Prensa"?Nicaragua
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- What reformed jewel thief addressed President
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- Reagan's 1987 National Prayer Breakfast?Jack "Murph the Surf" Murphy
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- What southern U.S. city elected Xavier
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- Suarez its first Cuban-born mayor?Miami
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- What court did Robert Bork quit before
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- hitting the lecture circuit in 1988?The Federal Court of Appeals
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- What country had Iraq sold 150 captured
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- Iranian tanks to by November, 1987?Iran
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- What pipe-puffer succeeded Robert McFarlane
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- as U.S. National Security Advisor?John Poindexter
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- What country became a debtor nation in 1985,
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- for the first time since 1914?The U.S.
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- What Reagan cabinet member testified before
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- grand juries 11 times in 1987?Ed Meese
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- Who was the youngest leader of the Soviet
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- Union before Mikhail Gorbachev took over?Joseph Stalin
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- Who was the only Reagan cabinet member to
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- sport a tiger tattoo on his buttocks?George Schultz
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- Who prophetically announced, on being
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- re-elected: "You ain't seen nothin' yet"?Ronald Reagan
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- What already troubled nation saw 392 killed
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- in Africa's worst-ever train wreck in 1984?Ethiopia
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- What was the deadliest war of the 1980s?The Iran-Iraq War
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- What did Jesse Jackson propose should be made
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- a state?Washington, D.C.
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- What politician repeatedly called Ted Koppel
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- "Dan" during a 1988 interview on "Nightline"?George Bush
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- What industry did the U.S. government impose
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- the Windfall Profits Tax on in 1980?The oil industry
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- What did NASA name the 85-ton orbiter built
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- to replace the "Challenger"?"Discovery"
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- What feverishly spiritual country demanded
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- $24 billion from the U.S. in December, 1980?Iran
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- What age did Mark David Chapman and John
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- Hinckley share when they shot to infamy?Twenty-five
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- What country was called an "aircraft carrier"
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- for Contra actions against Nicaragua?Honduras
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- What European power elected its first
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- Socialist president in 1988?France
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- What politician was Londell Williams arrested
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- for threatening to kill in 1988?Jesse Jackson
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- What breed of dog were seven U.S. citizens
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- killed by in 1986?The pit bull
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- What country's air force wiped out Iraq's
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- nuclear reactor in 1981?Israel's
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- What were 15 Wall Street workers arrested for
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- using as currency in financial deals in 1987?Cocaine
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- Who pleaded not guilty - Mark David Chapman
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- or John Hinckley Jr.?John Hinckley Jr.
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- What organization did 100,000 Italians
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- demonstrate against in Palermo in 1982?The Mafia
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- What scheme did Ronald Reagan call "a vision
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- of the future which offers hope"?The Strategic Defense Initiative
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- What child was William Stern awarded custody
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- of on March 31, 1987?Baby M
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- What company claimed to be the largest U.S.
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- employer of unskilled workers in 1987?McDonald's
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- What Nobel Prize winner landed a job at the
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- Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland?Lech Walesa
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- What did Aloha Flight 243 lose 18 feet of
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- while flying over Hawaii in 1988?Its fuselage
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- How much was Mary Beth Whitehead to be paid
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- for giving birth to Baby M?$10,000
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- What dioxin-containing defoliant did 20,000
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- Vietnam vets claim in 1983 to be infected by?Agent Orange
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- Who called Oliver North "every secretary's
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- dream of a boss"?Fawn Hall
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- What Reagan cabinet member was finally
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- succeeded by Richard Thornburgh?Ed Meese
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- What superpower did the Vatican finally
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- accord complete diplomatic links to in 1982?The U.S.
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- What state was the site of the Baby M trial?New Jersey
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- What war did the United Nations outline an
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- end to with Resolution 598?The Iran-Iraq War
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- Who was the only U.S. presidential hopeful to
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- meet with Fidel Castro in 1984?Jesse Jackson
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- What year in the '80s did the U.S. end
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- diplomatic ties with Iran?1980
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- What New England senator succeeded Cyrus
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- Vance as Secretary of State in 1980?Edmund Muskie
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- What company became the largest U.S. firm to
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- file for bankruptcy in April, 1987?Texaco
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- What was the Soviet Union's 94-year-old
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- Vyacheslav Molotov allowed to rejoin in 1984?The Communist Party
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- What African leader admitted in 1984 that
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- he'd sent arms to the Sandinistas?Muammar Khadafy
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- What Latin American leader's riot troops were
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- dubbed "The Dobermans"?Manuel Antonio Noriega's
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- What East Coast governor signed the first
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- U.S. bill to try to stop acid rain?Mario Cuomo
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- What state holiday did Arizona governor Evan
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- Mecham cancel?Martin Luther King Day
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- Who, in 1987, referred to the recently-bombed
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- warship "U.S.S. Stark" as a "plane"?Ronald Reagan
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- What country had the third-largest defense
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- budget at the end of the '80s?Japan
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- What crime family lost its head when "Big
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- Paul" Castellano was erased by bullets?The Gambinos
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- Which two seasons of 1987 saw Americans
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- watching the Iran-Contra hearings live on TV?Spring and summer
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- What country promised a memorial in 1988 to
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- 13,000 troops killed in action?The Soviet Union
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- What Caribbean country's presidency did Henri
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- Namphy assume after a 1988 military coup?Haiti
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- Who won the most states in the 1984
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- Democratic presidential primaries?Gary Hart
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