What labor group did Cesar Chavez create?
The American Federation of Labor
The International Workers of the World
The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
The United Mine Workers
Answer: The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

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What device revolutionized the automobile industry in 1911?
The windshield wiper
The front bumper
The rearview mirror
The electric self-starter
Answer: The self-starter

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What two items hit the market in the same year?
Hostess cakes and Wonder Bread
Peter Pan and Jiff peanut butters
The fully assembled personal computer and the fax machine
Alka-Seltzer and Pepto-Bismol
Answer: Hostess Cakes and Wonder Bread in 1927.

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Which of the following African-American leaders was best known
for espousing education and activism as the key to achieving equal
rights with whites in the U.S.?
Booker T. Washington
Angela Davis
Malcolm X
W.E.B. Du Bois
Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois. In his 1903 work "The Souls of
Black Folk," Du Bois wrote that the racial situation in the U.S. tempted the
minds of American blacks "to pretense or to revolt, to hypocrisy or to
radicalism." Du Bois eventually renounced his U.S. citizenship."

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Which royal couple's 1956 wedding was hailed by a
celebrity-obsessed press as "the wedding of the century"?
The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield Simpson
Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly
Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of
Snowdon
Answer: Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly The
wedding, broadcast to some 30 million European households, was the first
royal marriage ceremony ever televised.

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