BRAINS
History 2001
Questions

   

1) Between 1939 and 1945 the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilization has ever known took place. What was it?  

2)On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, the American President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South.  Opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace died. The question is: how was Lincoln assassinated?

3) "I hereby resign the Office of President of the United States." --Richard M. Nixon, August 9, 1974. The question is: What scandal caused Nixon’s resignation?

4) Jânio Quadros was President of Brazil from January 31 to  August 25, 1961. What symbol did he use during his electoral campaign?

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