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| What year was Roe v. Wade decided? |
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| What supreme court decision was made in 1973? |
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| What was the case of Roe v. Wade based on? |
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| The desire to protect doctor-patient confidentiality. |
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| What case was based on the desire to protect doctor-patient confidentiality? |
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| Who did President Clinton appoint to the Supreme Court in 1993? |
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| Who appointed Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court in 1993? |
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| What year was Ruth Bader Ginsberg appointed to the Supreme Court by Bill Clinton? |
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| Who interpreted the Constitution as including a right to abortion? |
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| What did Ruth Bader Ginsberg interpret the Consititution as including ? |
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| Who signed an executive order to authorize the use of fetal tissue for research purposes? |
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| What executive order did Bill Clinton sign in 1993? |
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| An order to authorize the use of fetal tissue for research purposes. |
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| Who was the security officer for CREEP who participated in the Watergate break-in in June 1972? |
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| When did security officer for CREEP, James McCord, participate in the Watergate break-in? |
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| What occured on June 1972? |
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| The watergate break-in with CREEP James McCord. |
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| Why were they called the plumbers? |
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| Created to stop leaks to the media. |
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| Who was created to stop leaks to the media? |
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| Who released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times? |
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| What did Daniel Ellsberg release to the New York Times? |
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| What paper did Daniel Ellsberg release the Pentagon Papers to? |
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| Who wrote a letter saying that the burglary was part of a conspiracy by the president's men? |
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| Did McCord write the letter about the president's men before or after John Sirica imposed sentences on them? |
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| Who were the president's men? |
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| John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman. |
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| What group did John Dean, Jeb Magruder, Bob Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman make up? |
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| What was McCord's letter about? |
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| What did Nixon do within days of the burglary? |
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| Who wrote did Nixon did participate in planning? |
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| That Nixon did participate in planning. |
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| What did Nixon do for his cover up? |
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| Intended using the CIA to block FBI. |
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| When did the Senate begin hearing on the Watergate case? |
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| What did the Senate begin hearing in 1973. |
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| Who did the president appoint as prosecutor? |
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| President appointed prosecutor. |
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| Elliot Richardson and William rukelshaus. |
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| Who eventually fired Cox? |
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| Who was the new prosecutor after Cox? |
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| Prosecutor after Archibald Cox. |
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| Who did Nixon eventually give the tapes to? |
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| What year did Nixon resign from office? |
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| What did Nixon do in 1974? |
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| What were Jim Croce's top 1 hits? |
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| "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" |
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| Who had the top one hits "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" ? |
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| What years did Jim Croce write songs? |
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| Who wrote songs between 1966 and 1973? |
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| What happened to Jim Croce in Spetember 20, 1973? |
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| Who was killed in a plane crash in September 20, 1973? |
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| What also happened on September 20, 1973? |
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| "I got a Name" was released. |
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| What were the three songs in the "I Got a Name" album? |
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| "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" |
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| Who wrote "I got a name?" |
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| Who wrote "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song"? |
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| What year was the War Powers Act made? |
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| How man hours must the President have to notify Congress of committing armed forces to military action? |
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| How many days does the War Powers Act allow the president to remain troops? |
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| What year did Milliken v. Bradley take place? |
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| What Supreme Court decision occured in 1974? |
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| What did the Milliken v. Bradley case deal with? |
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| Planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit |
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| What supreme Court case dealt with Planned desegregation busing of public school students across district lines among 53 school districts in metropolitan Detroit? |
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| What did Milliken v. Bradley case clarify? |
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| Held that the school systems were not responsible for desegregation across district lines unless it could be shown that they had deliberately engaged in a policy of segregation. |
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| When was Rocky by John G. Avildsen made? |
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| What movie was made in 1976? |
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| Who starred in Rocky in 1976? |
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| What movie did Sylvester Stallone star in? |
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| What was the highest grossing film of 1976? |
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| What was the name of the first Star Wars Movie? |
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| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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| When was Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope released? |
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| What movie was released in 1977? |
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| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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| What is the third highest grossing film in the world? |
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| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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| Who starred in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope? |
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| Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. |
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| What movie did Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher star in? |
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| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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| Who signed the Camp David Accords on 1978? |
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| Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem |
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| Who were the Camp David Accords signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem ? |
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| What did Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem sign in 1978? |
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| Who mediated the Camp David Accords>? |
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| What did Jimmy Carter mediate? |
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| What did the Camp David Accords lead to? |
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| 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty |
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| What brought on the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty? |
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| What year was the Supreme Court Bakke v. University of California decision? |
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| What case did the Supreme Court deal with in 1978? |
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| Bakke v. University of California |
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| What did the Bakke v. University of California case decide? |
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| Ruled unconstitutional the admission process of the Medical School at the University of California at Davis, which set aside 16 of the 100 seats for "Blacks," "Chicanos," "Asians," and "American Indians" (and established a separate admissions process for those 16 spaces). |
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| What case ruled unconstitutional the admission process of the Medical School at the University of California at Davis, which set aside 16 of the 100 seats for "Blacks," "Chicanos," "Asians," and "American Indians" (and established a separate admissions process for those 16 spaces). |
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| Bakke v. University of California |
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| When did the Three Mile Island accident of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania occur? |
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| What occured in 1979 in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania? |
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| The Three Mile Island accident. |
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| Where did the 1979 Three Mile Island accident occur? |
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| Dauphin County, Pennsylvania |
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| What was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history |
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| The Three Mile Island Accident of 1979. |
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| What influenced public reaction to the Three Mile Island accident? |
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| What happened on November 1979? |
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| When did the Iran Hostage Crisis occur? |
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| How many Iranion militants took hostages at the American Embassy in 1979? |
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| How many hostages are kept by Iranian militants until January 1981? |
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| How long were 52 kept hostage by Iranian militants? |
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| What did the Iranian militants demand? |
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| Shah in exchange for hostage release. |
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| What did Carter do in response to the Iran Hostage Crisis? |
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| What did Carter do in April 1980 after initially resisting rescue mission calls? |
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| Ordered commandos to prepare for a raid. |
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| What happened in April 1980. |
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| Carter prepated for a raid to get the iranian hostages. |
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| What happened during the raid for Iranian hostages? |
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| Two aircraft collided and 8 died. |
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| What did Carter do after the failure raid? |
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| Who provided cover for Americans in danger of becoming hostages? |
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| What did the Canadian Embassy do? |
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| Provided cover for Americans in danger of becoming hostages. |
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| What was distributed in response to the Canadian Embassy? |
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| "Thank you Canada" bumper stickers. |
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| What is the belief of Reaganomics? |
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| The belief that producers of goods and services should be helped by the economic policies of the federal government. |
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| What is the belief that producers of goods and services should be helped by the economic policies of the federal government? |
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| What else is reaganomics called? |
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| Supply-side economics, or trickle down economics. |
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| What is supply-side economics, or trickle down economics called? |
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| What did Reagan introduce? |
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| A number of bills to lower taxes. |
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| Who introduced a number of bills to lower taxes? |
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| How did Reaganomics relate to spending? |
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| No drastic cuts, but no significant increases. |
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| What did Reaganomics allow for an increases of? |
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| 50 cents in federal spending for national defense. |
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| What did the 50 cent raise in national defense do? |
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| How much debt did Reagan rack up? |
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| Who racked up 2 trillion dollars? |
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| Who announced the existence of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s? |
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| What was announced by the CDC in the 1980s? |
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| When was HIV and AIDS announced by the CDC? |
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| How much money did the federal government allocate for research and treatment of AIDS in 1983? |
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| What year did the federal government allocate 12 million dollars for research and treatment of AIDS? |
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| What did the federal government allocate 12 million dollars to in 1983? |
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| When was MAgic Johnson diagnosed with HIV? |
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| Who won an Academy Award for his role as a AIDS man in "Philadelphia"? |
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| What movie did Tom Hanks win an Academy Award for as an AIDS man? |
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| Who wrote a song and video called "Streets of Philadelphia" about AIDs? |
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| What song did Bruce Springsteen write about AIDS? |
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| How many Americans had died of AIDS in 1999? |
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| By what year did 400,000 Americans die of AIDS? |
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| What did Ted Turner's father do? |
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| What year did Ted Turner's father kill himself? |
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| What did Ted Turner do in 1970. |
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| Took over a tv station in Atlanta. |
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| What was the name of Ted Turner's tv station? |
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| What broadcasted in 1980? |
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| When did CNN come of age? |
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| When did the Gulf War begin? |
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| What occured on January 16, 1991? |
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| The Gulf War; reported by CNN. |
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| What network launched in 1981? |
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| What did MTV launch with? |
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| "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll," |
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| Who launched with "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,"? |
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| What was the first shown things on MTV? |
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| Moon Landing and Appollo 11. |
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| What was the first music video played on MTV. |
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| Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star" |
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| Who was programming chief for MTV? |
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| What was Robert W. Pittman chief of? |
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| When did the Iran-Contra Affair occur? |
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| What occured November 1986? |
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| What was the Iran-Contra Affair? |
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| Secretly faciliated the sale of arms to Iran. |
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| What did Reagan do on March 4, 1987? |
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| Took full responsibility for Iran-Contra. |
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| When did Reagan take responsbility for Iran-Contra? |
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| When did the Challenger blow up? |
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| What happened on January 28, 1986? |
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| How many seconds did the Challenger last? |
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| How many were on the Challenger. |
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| What was the problem with the Challenger? |
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| What was the name of the teacher of the Challenger? |
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| Who was Christa McAuliffe? |
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| Teacher on the Challenger. |
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| When did Reagan say “The Evil Empire”? |
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| What did Reagan say in his March 8, 1983 speech? |
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| Who said The Evil Empire in March 8, 1983? |
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| What area did Grunge originate in? |
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| What music originated in Seattle Washington? |
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| What two bands were popular with Grunge? |
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| What genre was Nirvana and Pearl Jam associated with? |
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| Who were credited with using the term grunge? |
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| An Oklahoma University law professor. |
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| Who was an Oklahoma University law professor? |
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| Who testified before Congress for hearings on Clarence Thomas? |
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| Who did Anita Hill testified before Congress for? |
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| Who nominated Clarence Thomas in 1991? |
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| What year did George Bush nominate Clarence Thomas>? |
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| Who did George Bush nominate to the Supreme Court in 1991? |
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| Was Clarence Thomas confirmed? |
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| When did Iraq invade Kuwait to secure oil supplies? |
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| What did Iraq do in 1990? |
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| Who condemed Iraq entering Kuwait? |
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| By when did the United Nations demand Iraq withdraw by? |
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| Did Saddam Hussein remain in power after the Persian Gulf war? |
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| When did the Persian Gulf war start? |
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| 1990 when Iraq invaded kuwait. |
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| What sparked the 1992 LA Riots? |
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| The arrest of Rodney King. |
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| What did the arrest of Rodney King spark? |
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| Who cautioned LA residents to not resort to violence after the not-guilty verdict? |
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| How long did the 1992 LA riots last? |
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| How many were killed in the 1992 LA Riots? |
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| Who was saved by 4 black rescuers? |
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| What happened to Reginald Denny? |
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| Was saved by 4 black rescuers. |
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| Who went on radio to ask for healing and clean-up after LA riots? |
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| What did Edward James Olmos physically do? |
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| Who won the 1992 election? |
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| Who was the 1992 election between? |
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| Bill Clinton, George H W Bush, and Ross Perot. |
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| Who claimed 18 percent of the votes in the 1992 election? |
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| From when did the Bosnian War take place? |
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| March 1992 until December 1995. |
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| What took place between March 1992 until December 1995? |
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| What came out of the Bosnian War? |
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| What was the conflict in the Bosnian War? |
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| What was the most devastating conflict since World War II? |
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| What happened to Scoot O' Grady in June 2, 1995? |
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| When was the Contract with America released? |
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| Who released the Contract with America? |
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| What was the Contract with America. |
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| Set of actions the republican party would do if they were to take the majority of the house. |
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| Who wrote the Contract with America? |
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| What did Larry Hunter write? |
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| Who was ejected over Bosnia in June 2, 1995? |
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| Where was Scott O' Grady ejected in June 2, 1995? |
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| How long was Scott O' Grady in Bosnia? |
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| When was the verdict of OJ Simpson? |
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| What verdict happened on October 3, 1995. |
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| Who was OJ Simpson accused of murdering? |
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| Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. |
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| What happened to Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman? |
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| Murdered; OJ Simpson accused. |
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| What does NAFTA Stand for? |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| When did Robert O'Donnell save baby Jessica McClure? |
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| Who saved Jessica McClure in 1987> |
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| Who did Robert O'Donnell save in 1987? |
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| When did Robert O'Donnell die? |
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| Who parked a truck loaded with explosives in 1995? |
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| Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. |
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| When did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols part a truck loaded with explosives? |
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| When did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols park a loaded truck in 1995? |
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| Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. |
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| How many people were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing? |
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| What was the Oklahoma City bombings blamed on? |
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| Loss of liberty and FBI killings in Ruby Ridge and Waco. |
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| What provoked Robert O'Donnell to end his life? |
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| The Oklahoma City Bombing. |
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| Who was provoked by the Oklahoma City bombing? |
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| What were the two formal charges against Clinton? |
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| Perjury and obstruction of justice. |
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| Who was the woman involved with Clinton? |
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| Who was Monica Lewinsky involved with? |
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| Who claimed Clinton harassed her as governor of Arkansas? |
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| What democrat cast a vote to convict Clinton? |
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| What did Russ Feingold do? |
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| Cast a vote to convict Clinton. |
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| What was the 2000 election between? |
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| The Septemeber 11 attacks in 2001 lead to... |
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| Stock MArket downturn in 2001 and 2002. |
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| What contributed to the Stock Market downturn in 2001 and 2002? |
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| The Semptember 11 attacks. |
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| What spured the stock crash of 2001? |
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| What did the dot-com bubble spur? |
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| How many were killed in the September 11 attack at the World trade Center? |
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| How many were killed in the attack at the Pentagon? |
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| Where did Flight 93 land? |
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| Who landed in Pennyslvania? |
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| Who was the mayor of New York during September 11th> |
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| Who was documented by two french filmmakers? |
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| What did George W. Bush say on September 11th> |
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| "Today freedom has come under attack and freedom will be defended" |
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| Who said "Today freedom has come under attack, and freedom will be defended" |
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| What was the largest bankruptcy at it's time? |
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| When did Enron file for bankruptcy? |
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| What does the Tea Party advocate? |
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| Strict adherance to the Constitution? |
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| Who advocates strict adherance to the Constitution? |
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| When did the Tea Party movement start? |
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| Where did Occupy Wall Street take part first? |
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| Zuccotti Park, New York Wallstreet. |
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| What took place in Zuccotti Park, New York? |
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