1. What comet appeared in the sky in 1910?
A. Murphy's Comet
B: Halley's Comet
C: Comet Goholin


2. Only 745 of 2340 passengers and crew survived what disaster in 1912?
A: Titanic
B: Hindenburg
C: Lusitania


3. What ancient city was discovered high in the Andes Mountains in 1911?
A: Machu Picchu
B: Urubamba
C: Mazatlan


4. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911?
A: Frederick Laverne Walker
B: Casimir Funk
C: Roald Amundsen


5. Who was called "the greatest athlete in the world" in 1912?
A: Charles Lindbergh
B: Jim Thorpe
C: Lon Chaney


6. When was the Panama Canal opened for business?
A: 1911
B: 1913
C: 1914


7. What do historians attribute as the start of World War I?
A: The bombing of Pearl Harbor
B: The assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand
C: The blitzkrieg


8. Who was Manfred von Richthofen?
A: a general in the German army
B: the Red Baron
C: leader of the allied forces


9. Who was the first woman elected to Congress in 1917?
A: Jeannette Stark Walker
B: Juiette Prowse
C: Jeannette Rankin


10. Who was threatened by the influenza epidemic of 1918?
A: Millions of people world-wide
B: Men returning from the battlefields of Europe
C: Men returning from the building of the Panama Canal