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1. Who is the vice presidential choice who was announced in the early morning hours of August 23rd, 2008?
2. What did National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy wait to tell President Kennedy in the early morning hours of October 1962? Kennedy apparently was tired following a night flight from New York.
3. What event did Edwin Meese wait for more than five hours before waking President Ronald Reagan?
4. In 1970, what did Henry Kissinger avoid waking up Richard Nixon to tell him had happened in space?
5. In 2004, whose death was George Bush awakened in the middle of the night about?
6. Which Category 1 hurricane attacked High Island, Texas in the middle of the night in 2007?
7. Which affable President of the United States, whose wife was named Mamie, had a major myocardial infarction in the middle of the night?
8. Who was the Saudi Arabian ruler who died in the middle of the night in August 2005?
9. Who slept through phone calls from world leaders congratulating him on his election to the Presidency?
10. Where did the Night of the Barricades, occur--the 1968 General Strike which resulted in the largest demonstrations since the Second World War?
11. On December 3, 1984, in what city did the poisonous gas, methyl isocyanate begin to leak in the worst industrial accident in the world?
12. What African-American 14 year old Chicago teenager was kidnapped from his relative's home in Mississippi, beaten, killed, and thrown into a river in 1955?
13. What was the name of the famous/infamous radio broadcast which frightened some Americans who thought there was an attack by Martians underway?
14. What was the event occuring on April 14, 1912 in the dark at 11:30 pm which occasioned one of the most famous movies of all time?
15. What silversmith is famous for his famous 1775 ride from Boston to Concord? He aimed to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of changes in action in the British Army, which was commencing a march from Boston to Lexington, with the apparent purpose of arresting Hancock and Adams and seizing the weapons stores in Concord.
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