greatreporter.com, October 8th, 2007
Question 1 of 10:
Who, in 1901, became the first American president of the 20th Century to die by an assassin's bullet?
William
McKinley
Theodore
Roosevelt
Grover
Cleveland
William
Taft
Question 2 of 10:
Which group of artists did the great
painter
Henri
Matisse
lead in the first decade of the century?
The Fauvists
The Neo-Impressionists
The Expressionists
The Pointillists
Question 3 of 10:
Who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1908?
Jess
Willard
James J
Corbett
John L
Sullivan
Jack
Johnson
Question 4 of 10:
The horrors of World War One prompted the creation of which organisation that was later replaced by the UN in 1946?
The International Alliance
The League of Nations
The Global Partnership
The World Bodies
Question 5 of 10:
What was
TS
Eliot
's day job when he wrote ‘The Waste Land’, one of the century's greatest poems?
Book editor
Art gallery curator
Journalist
Banker
Question 6 of 10:
Who became the first leader of the
USSR
after the 1917 Revolution?
Lenin
Trotsky
Stalin
Khrushchev
Question 7 of 10:
Which Prime Minister led
Britain
into the Second World War?
Winston
Churchill
Ramsay
MacDonald
Anthony
Eden
Neville
Chamberlain
Question 8 of 10:
Which great American writer accidentally shot his wife dead in 1951 while attempting a ‘
William
Tell
’ trick with her?
Tennessee
Williams
Norman
Mailer
William
Burroughs
JD
Salinger
Question 9 of 10:
In which year did
cosmonaut
Yuri
Gagarin
become the first man to travel in space?
1950
1957
1961
1965
Question 10 of 10:
President
Kennedy
was dealt a humiliating blow in 1961 when the
US
spectacularly botched an invasion of which country?
Nicaragua
Cuba
Iran
Grenada
