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3. Computer used by the Allies to break German codes
4. Dollar price of a Ford Model A in 1927
5. Long-hidden cave discovered in 1940, whose walls are covered with Ice Age art
6. The first fully electronic computer
7. End result of a scientific research project in Scotland in the 1990s
8. Percent increase of Third World greenhouse emissions in the past decade
9. Where Mary Leakey found the skull of a human ancestor who lived 1.8 million years ago
10. Number of people who have died of AIDS worldwide
11. Celestial phenomenon discovered by Allan Sandage and Thomas Matthews in 1961
12. Number of languages spoken in the 227 countries of the world
13. Comet that crashed into the planet Jupiter in 1994
14. Number of dollars that U.S. credit-card holders owe today
15. Device first demonstrated at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947
16. Number of servings of Coca-Cola sold per day
17. Raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands by sea
18. Percentage of U.S. homes that had a bathtub in 1900
19. Percentage of U.S. homes that were connected to the Internet in 1998
20. Number of U.S. residences wired for electricity in 1925
21. 1928 discovery that revolutionized 20th century medicine
Dolly Shoemaker-Levy 9 25 million transistor 1 billion Colossus 20 ENIAC quasar 71 Olduvai Gorge 16 million 6701 Valium penicillin 500 billion Bakelite RU-486 Lascaux 41.22 cyclotron 14 Deep Blue 10.5 million 550 Kon-Tiki amniocentesis
WHO SAID IT? Identify the source of each quotation.
1. "The radio craze...will die out in time."
a) Howard Stern b) Guglielmo Marconi c) Thomas Edison d) Jack Benny
2. "One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature."
a) Virginia Woolf b) Edmund Morris c) Jacqueline Susann d) James Joyce
3. "To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself."
a) Henry Kissinger b) Martha Stewart c) Albert Einstein d) Abbie Hoffman
4. "[Rock 'n' roll is] the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear."
a) Frank Sinatra b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Margaret Thatcher d) Billy Graham
5. "I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again."
a) Salman Rushdie b) Robert Frost c) Helen Keller d) Anne Frank
6. "I don't have to be what you want me to be; I'm free to be what I want."
a) Harvey Milk b) Muhammad Ali c) Georgia O'Keeffe d) Martha Graham
7. "Research your own experiences for the truth. Absorb what is useful... Add what is specifically your own."
a) Mohandas Gandhi b) Albert Einstein c) Henry Ford d) Bruce Lee
8. "There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white."
a) Bayard Rustin b) Thurgood Marshall c) Bobby Seale d) Maya Angelou