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Thread #83337   Message #1531124
Posted By: freda underhill
29-Jul-05 - 09:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: History Quiz
Subject: RE: BS: History Quiz
HISTORY TEST

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history.
They actually happened. Do you remember?

1. In 1984, Indira Ghandi was assassinated by

    a. Superman
    b. Jay Lenno
    c. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. Two of her own Sikh bodyguards.

2. In 1974, Patty Hearst was kidnapped by

    a. Olga Corbett
    b. Sitting Bull
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. The Symbionese Liberation Army - BC

3. Who said this?:

"It wasn't just about killing Americans, and killing pigs, at least not at first. It was about attacking the illegitimate state that these pawns served. It was about scraping the bucolic soil and exposing the fascist, Nazi-tainted bedrock that the modern West German state was propped upon. It was about war on the forces of reaction. It was about Revolution."

    a. Lost Norwegians
    b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
    d. The Baader-Meinhof Gang

4. In 1995 which group released deadly sarin nerve gas into the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 people and sending more than 5,000 others to hospitals?

    a. John Dillinger
    b. The King of Sweden
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. Aum Shinrikyo

5. In 1968, who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr?
    a. A pizza delivery boy
    b. Pee Wee Herman
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. James Earl Ray

6. In the 1980s, who trained, armed and financed the Contras, who slaughter tens of thousands of people slaughtered in Central America in the 1980s.

    a. The Smurfs
    b. Davy Jones
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. The US government.

7. In a UN report on El Salvador, 57 graduates of a military training college were identified. They included:

Mario Arevelo Melendez: involved in the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1989.
Armando Azmitia: involved in a notorious 1981 massacre of hundreds of civilians at the village of El Mozote.
Luis Colindres Aleman: involved in the killing of four US nuns in 1980.
Roberto D'Aubisson: "organised El Salvador's death squad network".
Colonel Jose Godinez Castillo: involved in 1,051 summary executions and 318 torture cases.
Carlos Medina Caray: involved in the 1981 El Junquillo massacre, in which troops raped and murdered children as young as 12. For full list see www.soaw.org (http://www.soaw.org)

What training college did they attend?

    a. The Ladies Deportment College of Trannsylvania
    b. The Hollywood Dry Cleaning Institute
    c. The Muslim male extremists college
    d. The US School of the Americas (SOA) training camp in Georgia

8. Who order the mass murder of 50,000 Croatian soldiers and civilians fleeing from the defeated fascist puppet state of Croatia. at Bleiburg in May 1945
    a. Scooby Doo
    b. The Tooth Fairy
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. Josip Broz Tito

9. Who murdered 69 black protestors in Sharpeville, South Africa in1960?
    a. Richard Simmons
    b. Grandma Moses
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. South African police

10. By 1966, which military leader had directed the murder of at least 500,000 rural Indonesians?. The violence was especially brutal in Java and Bali
    a. Mr. Rogers
    b. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    c. The World Wrestling Federation
    d. Major General Suharto

11. The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings on May 17, 1974 left 33 people dead and almost 300 injured, the largest number of casualties in any single day in The Troubles.Who killed them?
    a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
    b. The Supreme Court of Florida
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

12. In 1974, who exploded two bombs in busy public houses killing 21 civilians, more than half of whom were under the age of 25
    a. Enron
    b. The Lutheran Church
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. The Provisional IRA

13. In 1994, who opened fire on a group of Palestinian Muslims praying at the Cave of the Patriarchs site.
    a. Bonnie and Clyde
    b. Captain Kangaroo
    c. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
    d. Baruch Goldstein

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enough said.