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A War Song

1. A popular song written during World War I inspired Congress to present a special medal to the songwriter. What was that immortal song?

2. Name the man who wrote the famous song in the preceding question.

3. The songster in the preceding questions said he was born on the Fourth of July. Another song he wrote earned him a patriotic nickname. What was that long-term nickname?

4. What was the early name of what later became the state of Rhode Island?

5. What Massachusetts Bay colonist founded the settlement that became Rhode Island?

6. Who created the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the Soviet Union's blocking of freedom?

7. What prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?

8. Name the top three countries in the world in population.

9. What does unicameral mean?

10. Only one U.S. state has a unicameral legislature. The others all have two legislative bodies. Name the unicameral state.

Answers

"Over There" was the patriotic song.

2. George M. Cohan wrote "Over There."

3. Cohan wrote the song "Yankee Doodle Boy" — also known as "Yankee Doodle Dandy," which eventually became his nickname and the title of a film biography of the song-writing patriot.

4. Rhode Island was originally the Providence Plantations.

5. It was Roger Williams who left Massachusetts to settle what eventually would become Rhode Island.

6. The Soviet nickname was coined by Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946.

7. Indira Gandhi was slain by her own bodyguards.

8. The top three in order by population are China, India and the United States.

9. Unicameral means having one legislative house.

10. Nebraska is the only U.S. state with a unicameral legislature.

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