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1. Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln, a. were saved b. saved c. been saved d. was saved from a nasty railroad accident by Edwin Booth. Edwin was the brother of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
2. While it's up to individual states to determine the color of school buses, most a. have painted b. was painted c. have been painted d. is painted National School Bus Chrome Yellow since a 1939 national conference recommended it as the shade of choice.
3. Only one breed of dog a. mentions b. is mentioned c. have been mentioned d. has mentioned by name in the Bible: the Greyhound. (Proverbs 30:29-31, King James Version). Mind you, the animal in question isn't a dog at all in other translations!
4. Brian May, the lead guitarist for Queen, dropped out of a physics PhD at Imperial College London to follow the path to rock stardom. His physics studies a. were finished b. was finished c. have been finished d. has been finished in 2007 when he finally published his doctoral thesis.
5. When three-letter airport codes became standard in the mid-1930s, airports that had been using a two-letter identifier simply added an X to their code, which is why Los Angeles International Airport a. are known b. has known c. is known d. been known as LAX.
6. a. We are b. It is c. They are d. One is said that Albert Einstein never learned how to drive.
7. The very first high heels are said to a. be making b. have been made c. been made d. being made for soldiers in the 1500s who needed a way to keep their feet snugly tucked into their stirrups while riding on horseback.
8. The book Bambi: A Life in the Woods, on which the Disney movie was based, a. had been translated b. had translated c. were translated d. is being translated from German to English by Whittaker Chambers, the famous Soviet spy.
9. a. One b. People c. You d. They don't have to be a genius to come up with a clever idea: the guy who invented the karaoke machine, Daisuke Inoue, couldn’t sing, couldn’t read music, and played the keyboard about as well as your average third-grader.
10. Only 17 existing paintings a. are attributed b. have attributed c. is attributed d. was attributed to famed artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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