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1. Members of the Third Estate of France intended to hold a vote declaring their formal opposition to King Louis XVI. When they discovered the door to the conference room was locked, they were forced to move their meeting to what kind of sports venue?
2. President Franklin Roosevelt was determined to pass his New Deal legislation. They were popular reforms, but the Supreme Court kept striking the laws down as unconstitutional. FDR had to resort to a Plan B and he threatened to pack the court with sympathetic judges. In order to maintain the integrity of the court, which justice switched his vote in the West Coast Hotel v. Parrish case, which upheld the Washington State minimum wage law and then continued to support FDR's new deal policies?
3. John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators' original plan was not to assassinate President Lincoln, but to kidnap him instead. After learning Lincoln would be attending a play at a military hospital, Booth and others were supposed to wait on a road, lunge out and kidnap Lincoln. However, Booth found out too late that Lincoln was not at the hospital and the plan was abandoned. Where had Lincoln gone instead?
4. At one point in British history, no one thought Elizabeth II would become the queen. However, her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne and the line of succession changed and her father George VI ascended the throne and she followed in 1953. Why did King Edward VIII abdicate in the first place?
5. When members of the Black Hand held a meeting in January 1914 about whom to assassinate to start a revolution among the Slavic states of Austria-Hungary, who was the original chosen target?
6. The Invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the beginning of the end for Hitler and Nazi Germany. However, General Eisenhower had originally planned for the invasion to occur the day before. What stopped him?
7. Another time the line of succession to the English throne took a detour was in 1553 when Edward VI appointed whom to succeed him instead of his two half-sisters, who were next in line?
8. The Catholic Church split in two between 1378-1418 when Pope Urban VI proved to be corrupt and inefficient. Urban VI remained in Rome while some cardinals elected a second pope, Clement VII, who was seated in what city?
9. U.S. President William McKinley's secretary, George Cortelyou failed, despite his best efforts, to divert the president from the Temple of Music in September 6, 1901. What horrible fate did President McKinley face in the Temple of Music?
10. Benedict Arnold may be the biggest traitor in American history. His devious plot was to weaken the command at West Point and eventually surrender it to the British. He would have been successful if which British soldier and co-conspirator had not been arrested with papers detailing the plot?
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