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Friday, September 02, 2005

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer

The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Dates. Answers here

1. Did the French Revolution begin in 1789, 1798 or 1879?
2. Was the US president John F. Kennedy assassinated in 1961, 1963 or 1966?
3. Was the first atomic bomb used in warfare dropped on Hiroshima in 1939, 1945 or 1946?
4. Did Elvis Presley release his first hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," in 1956, 1958 or 1960?
5. Was the Berlin Wall dismantled in 1985, 1987 or 1989?
6. Was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated in 1948, 1953 or 1958?
7. Did Marconi first transmit long-wave radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean in 1891, 1901 or 1911?
8. Did Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," appear in 1927, 1932 or 1937?
9. Was William Shakespeare born in 1564, 1584 or 1614?
10. Was Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony first performed in 1808, 1818 or 1828?

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