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Second in Line: Multiple Choice
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- 01Who succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom immediately after World War II?
- 02Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture after "Gone with the Wind"?
- 03What is the world's second-highest mountain above sea level?
- 04What is the second-largest city by population in Japan?
- 05Who wrote the novel "Go Set a Watchman", published in 2015 but written before "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
- 06What element is directly below gold (Au) in the same group on the periodic table?
- 07Who was the President of South Africa that preceded Nelson Mandela and oversaw the end of apartheid?
- 08Who was the last monarch of the House of Tudor?
- 09In the famous 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match, who did Muhammad Ali defeat?
- 10Who was the lesser-known older brother of Vincent van Gogh, who supported him financially and emotionally?
- 11Which artist was the co-founder of the Cubist movement alongside Pablo Picasso?
- 12The Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire and is named for which saint?
- 13Who wrote the libretto for Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro"?
- 14After Neil Armstrong, who was the second human to walk on the Moon?
- 15Which scientist's law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at a constant temperature?
- 16The Taiping Rebellion, one of the bloodiest conflicts in history, was led by a man who claimed to be the younger brother of whom?
- 17Alfred Russel Wallace is famous for independently co-discovering which major scientific theory?
- 18Who was the second president of the United States?
- 19Which is the second largest of the Great Lakes by surface area?
- 20Before Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, which team won the NBA championship in 1990?