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Trivia Questions

President Ford appointed this future president director of the CIA in 1975

In 1960 he quipped, "Mr. Nixon dismissed me as 'another Truman'...I consider him another Dewey"

In 1799 this orator was elected to VA.'s legislature but died before he could take his seat

When this general died in 1863, Robert E. Lee wrote, "I know not how to replace him"

In 1742 James Oglethorpe won the Battle of Bloody Marsh & virtually ended this country's threat to Georgia

In December 1989 U.S. troops launched Operation Just Cause to capture this Panamanian gen.

On July 27, 1953 the armistice to end this war was signed at Panmunjom

In 1945 he declared Indonesia's independence & became its first president

From 1931-33 excavations in this country uncovered the palaces of Kings Darius & Xerxes

Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico relinquished all claims to this state above the Rio Grande