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Trivia Questions

This magician does the ultimate disappearing act & ends up on an enchanted island with Ariel & the brutish Caliban

In 1966 this university's Public Policy program became the Kennedy School of Government

The Meiji reforms of the 19th century permanently abolished this Japanese warrior class

One of France's major ports, it was the site of the 1940 evacuation of more than 300,000 men

In 1945 a U.S. unit saved the life of this Vietnamese guerrilla leader then helping the Allied cause

This 1925 event was staged in Dayton, Tenn. to give the city publicity, with the defendant & the law in on it

In February 1790 this man presided over the first meeting of the Supreme Court

The cathedral of this city in Spain claims to hold the remains of Christopher Columbus, moved there in 1899

In late 1943, a U.S. warship carrying this man to a summit in Tehran narrowly missed being destroyed by friendly fire

In 1907 only the repurposing of the Eiffel Tower as one of these spared it from being torn down