Common Knowledge Quiz

Women and minorities make up 52 percent of the workers in American businesses.

Millions of soldiers died in the trenches of the western front during World War I.

Six months after hitting the jackpot, state lottery winners typically find their level of happiness no different than it was before their windfall.

The whaling industry in nineteenth-century America collapsed when flexible steel hoops replaced whalebone in women's corsets.

Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated in 1948.

Male students in classes at Harvard Medical School in the fall of 1850 objected to the presence of Harriet Hunt, the first female student admitted there.

Smoking kills over 418,000 people every year in the United States.

Under the Taliban government, playing popular music was illegal in Afghanistan.

The cheetah is the fastest-moving land animal.

A twenty-year Swiss study of organic farming found that organic farms yielded more produce per unit of energy consumed than farms that did not use organic farming methods.