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Trivia Questions

Successor to the Manhattan Project, this agency, the AEC, was established in 1946

In 1981, just minutes after President Reagan was sworn in, the 52 hostages in this country were released

In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president's life

Robert McNamara served in this post 1961-68

Philanthropist Gerrit Smith helped finance this man's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry

This 1890 act was designed in part to prevent monopolies

As a result of this 1861-65 conflict, over 600,000 died and 375,000 were wounded

In 1666 Puritan families founded a village that later became this largest New Jersey city

On Sept. 10, 1813 he sailed from South Bass Island off Ohio's shore to battle the British

In 1869 the U.S. attempted to annex this nation on eastern Hispaniola