1. Believed to have Nazi sympathies, which famous pilot did FDR refuse to reinstate into the Army Air Corps commission? Charles Lindbergh
2. After serving 6 months in prison, what former mayor ran for a political seat again, using the slogan, "he may not be perfect, but he's perfect for DC?" Marion Barry
3. One of the most famous personal conflicts in American History, who shot and mortally wounded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in 1804? Aaron Burr
4. Displayed in Red Square, which soviet leaders body gets a chemical bath every 18 months? Vladimir Lenin
5. Which founding father wrote in a letter to a physician friend: "I rise early almost every morning and sit in my chamber, without any clothes whatever, half an hour or an hour, according to the season, either reading or writing."? Ben Franklin
6. Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan in which infamous Los Angeles hotel? The Ambassador
7. Which record breaking aviation pioneer disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937? Amelia Earhart
8. In 2004, physicist Robert Wood suggested that what famed disaster was started by meteors, and not by Mrs. O'leary's cow? Great Chicago Fire
9. In 2006, President Bush awkwardly gave a back-rub to Angela Merkel, chancellor of what nation? Germany
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